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By Hollie McKay
PARIS, France – Fifty years later, anti-Iranian regime activist Aziz Rezaee still bears the scars of torture on the bottoms of her frail feet. Yet, the 96-year-old’s years of abuse and political imprisonment stemmed not from the iron fist of the Mullahs but from their predecessor, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, revealing the underbelly of an Iranian epoch often romanticized by history as a bastion of freedom and progress.
“Iran was a beautiful place – but only for the very rich, not for the vast majority of Iranians, and that was the story of the Revolution,” Aziz tells me from her small apartment on the periphery of Paris. “And there was only one party – there could be no…
