(BBC News) Brian Wheeler - Thousands of Iranian Jews and their descendants owe their lives to an Iranian Muslim diplomat in wartime Paris. In The Lion's Shadow tells how Abdol-Hossein Sardari risked everything to help Iranian Jews living in and around Paris escape the Nazis. Stripped of his diplomatic immunity and status, Sardari remained in France and carried on helping the Iranian Jews, at considerable risk to his own safety, using money from his inheritance to keep his office going. He died a lonely death in London in 1981, after losing his ambassador's pension and Tehran properties in the Iranian revolution.
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