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Novelist Kader Abdolah On Attacking The Iranian Regime From His Dutch ExilePosted at 11:28AM Saturday 06 Feb 2010 Kader Abdolah's name encapsulates the danger, horror and heartache that have characterised his remarkable life. A pseudonym, originally assumed to protect his identity in the early years of post-revolutionary Iran, it is composed of the names of two friends who were murdered by the Tehran regime.In the 1980s he had gone to Kurdistan to write about its underground movement and got to know Kader and Abdolah, a heart doctor and an architect. Later, as he was writing his first book about their resistance to the ayatollahs, they were captured and executed. Needing to protect himself and wanting to honour them, he decided to take their names for his covertly published first book.
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