TAGS: 1924; Robert Imbrie; Tehran, Iran

Abstract:

In 1924 Vice Consul Robert W. Imbrie was killed by an angry mob spurred on by religious fanatics after he tried to photograph a fountain that was believed to be sacred, a foreshadowing of the 1979 embassy seizure.

Notes:

Online at afsa.org/foreign-service-journal. See also all Mentions of the Faith in the Journal of the American Foreign Services Association.

Murder in Tehran

Henry S. Villard

published in The Foreign Service Journal

pp. 24-27

1982-06

Download: villard_murder_tehran.pdf.

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