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Re: What Made My Day Today? :-)

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On 8/27/2023 10:40 AM, Physfitfreak wrote:
> Several of Iranians in Dallas area almost as soon as they arrived from 
> Iran in late 1970s joined parachuting clubs :) Unlike in Iran, you 
> didn't have to have ties to a military organization to have that access, 
> so they were fast pursuing that part of their dreams, along of


This unfortunately proved to give them grief a few short years later. 
FBI repeatedly interrogated them for that. Not just once or twice! I, 
the most peaceful person in the world you could imagine, was myself 
interrogated by FBI _two_ times. Now imagine what those Iranians who had 
made themselves experts in parachuting went through.

One of them was a friend in the same department in school that I was. I 
can remember well, and for at least 5 years he'd been regularly 
interrogated by FBI. He was sick of it. His blood would begin to boil 
just thinking about it. And he had done nothing wrong, just like myself. 
But I was just interrogated twice and never more, and he (and any other 
Iranian who learned parachuting) was visited by FBI like 12 times a year.

So we guessed that they (the FBI) had some sort of protocol for that. 
Under certain situations, a person who knew parachuting would 
automatically become suspect.

Crazy, no? The two times FBI spoke with me (about two hours each time!), 
at least were conducted very politely on their sides. Quite gentlemanly. 
They did their best not to aggravate me and succeeded at that. But the 
way they treated these parachuters, boy, the friend was telling me that 
they weren't so careful at all. And it never ended :( Every year for at 
least 5 years or so, and multiple times a year. FBI would not let them 
have peace.

Hahahhhah :-)

That's how that innocent activity of their had turned out for them :)

But it was to a funny extent their own faults as well! Hahhhahahah :-)

These tootsies had to each year go see their Mums in Iran. Sometimes 
twice! Some Iranians never graduate past that. I never went back to 
Iran, to this day! Didn't need to, you know. Before, it was letters, 
then email, and then skype or telegram. Never needed more than that. But 
those other Iranians, those tootsies, had to see their mothers at least 
once a year :)

So, can you blame it on FBI? I mean the suspicion that it created... I 
wouldn't.

FBI _knew_ I was not a person to create any trouble even before they met 
me both times. They had to just follow their routine. My encounter with 
them wasn't even boring. It was like I was speaking with my professors.






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