The story of Tehran’s 1979 isn’t confined to a single year.
Its aftershocks carried into the 1980s and beyond — shaping who could speak, who could stay, and who was forced to vanish.
By the time Ricardo, the protagonist of Shadows of Tehran, became known as the Shadow Rider, Iran’s revolution had hardened into repression. The streets once filled with chants now echoed with surveillance.
When his name appeared at the t...