Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples (Vintage International)
“At some time in the early seventies, before the great oil boom, he had had the luck—and wisdom, and money—to buy a big tract of salt land in Kerman. He bought at one touman a square meter, ten rials, about fifteen U.S. cents; three or four years later, when the boom had come, and cities all over Iran were growing fast, he sold some of his salt land as building land for four hundred toumans a square meter. So—just to play with extraordinary figures—an investment of no more than ten thousand doll...ars, say, had turned after three or four years into a little fortune of four million dollars.
Such a fortune would have been enough to keep most people calm. But Ali moved the other way. He became a supporter of the revolution. He said, “Now that we had the money, the financial security, we wanted liberty. It was the one thing we didn’t have.” As a student in the United States, in the 1960s, he had become passionate about politics, even local American politics; and he had grown to feel ashamed that he came from a country that wasn’t free.MoreLess
Such a fortune would have been enough to keep most people calm. But Ali moved the other way. He became a supporter of the revolution. He said, “Now that we had the money, the financial security, we wanted liberty. It was the one thing we didn’t have.” As a student in the United States, in the 1960s, he had become passionate about politics, even local American politics; and he had grown to feel ashamed that he came from a country that wasn’t free.MoreLess
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