The long road from Tehran to Denver

CHANUKAH 5782 SECTION A PAGE 6 a tense and precarious night in 1985, when Robert Salehrabi, his younger brother and two other Jewish boys crossed the line from oppression to freedom, they were barely aware of the moment when it happened. Which was understandable, considering that they had spent the last 12 hours or so on the back of dirt bikes and in the beds of four-by-four pickup trucks; traversing, often cross-country, remote and rugged terrain that ranged from desert to mountains. The official border between Iran and Pakistan was nothing more than a shallow gully. Not to mention their apprehension that they might have been pursued by Iranian authorities intent on preventing anyone from fleeing the newly-Islamist country — and that they were known […]