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Soraya was the elder child and only daughter of Khalil Esfandiary Bakhtiary (1901–1983), a Bakhtiari nobleman and Iranian ambassador to West Germany in the 1950s, and his Russian-born German wife Eva Karl (1906–1994).
Zeid-Abadi, who wrote a weekly column for Rooz Online, a Farsi- and English-language reformist news …