The Execution of Habib Elghanian

Witness History: Archive 2014 - A podcast by BBC World Service

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On 9 May 1979 a prominent businessman was executed in Iran. He was just one of hundreds of Iranians killed on the orders of revolutionary courts which targeted people with links to the former Shah. But the death of Habib Elghanian in particular sent fear through the country's Jewish community. His cousin Fereshteh Victory remembers.(Photo: Habib Elghanian)