Author of the memoir Wedding Song, Rafideh Goldin spoke in Cleveland, USA, last week of her youth, her family's plight and their 1979 emergency airlift to Israel after the Shah of Iran was overthrown. (With thanks: Albert)
"In 1979, when the rumblings in the university turned into attacks on the streets against minorities, her father returned to the Jewish ghetto to get more information "about what would turn out to be an Islamic revolution. "He knew the Jews would be next,” Goldin says.
"Israel came to their rescue, sending planes in the middle of the night to airlift the Iranian Jews to safety. Leaving almost everything behind, Goldin's family joined other Jews at the Tehran airport, where they were packed two and three to a seat and into the aisles of the waiting jets. The planes took off almost vertically, without lights or help from the control tower, to avoid detection, Goldin says.
"Her father, now 81, and her mother, now 70, live in Israel, as does her youngest sister. "My family lost everything in Iran. Israel saved them,” she says, expressing her gratitude to American Jews for their financial help for those resettling in Israel."
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The revolution in Iran wasn't good for the iranian jews. i am iranian jew and we had a wonderful life in In Iran before the mullahs took over. Iran used to be our country and nobody treated us bad until it changed 1979. I left Iran 1984.
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