GHAZAL OMID
http://www.livinginhell.com/biography.php
About the author Ghazal Omid (snip)
"...on a trip to Abadan to renew her birth certificate, another incident emphasized the urgency for her to leave the country. Riding with her mother in a taxi, Ghazal asked the tour guide/taxi driver to slow down so she could photograph the abandoned oil refinery where her grandfather had been chief of security. Instead, the driver, an under cover policewoman, pulled out her ID and threatened to arrest her as a spy if she tried to photograph the rusting junkyard of pipes; all that remained of a majestic refinery that fifty years ago was the largest in the world...."
Very, very interesting.
GHAZAL OMID
http://www.livinginhell.com/biography.php