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Days before the 19 August 1953 coup on 16 August, the Shah, accompanied by his second wife Sorayya Esfandiary Bakhtiari and Aboul Fath Atabay, escaped from Iran to Iraq and then to Italy by a plane aviated by Khatami.
Zeid-Abadi, who wrote a weekly column for Rooz Online, a Farsi- and English-language reformist news …