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Argo: Iran embassy guard's daughter slams moviemakers for writing her hero dad out of history

Argo: Iran embassy guard's daughter slams moviemakers for writing her hero dad out of history
Ben Affleck’s movie fails to mention how ex-British soldier Iskander Khan Chowdry single-handedly turned back a gang who stormed the British embassy where five US escapees sheltered It's the movie that ­triumphed at the Oscars and won huge acclaim for its director and star Ben Affleck.Millions have been gripped by its story of how the CIA rescued six US envoys who broke free during 1979’s Iran hostage crisis.But today a British woman reveals how her hero dad has been shamefully cut out of the plot.Affleck’s movie, named Best Picture at the Oscars, fails to mention how ex-British soldier Iskander Khan Chowdry single-handedly turned back a gang who stormed the British embassy where five US escapees sheltered.His daughter Nassim Shah says Iskander, head of security at the embassy, won the British Empire Medal for his action and the US owes him a debt. British diplomat Martin Williams also gave vital aid.But Argo suggests our envoys failed to help the US fugitives at all. One CIA character even says: “Brits turned them away.”Nassim, 49, from Nelson, near Burnley, Lancs, says the movie has seriously distorted the facts.“Events simply did not happen like it says in the film,” she said. “The British did give the Americans shelter. My father, a British national because he served for years in the British Army, was a true hero for turning away the ­enemy at the compound gates.”
Fact: Heroic Iskander with his medal
Sunday Mirror
Iranian-born Nassim, a former nurse, was 16 at the time and lived with her parents in the embassy guardhouse.Recalling that night, she said: “My father told everyone to turn off the lights, remain quiet and stay ­indoors. He then ransacked his own office to make it look as if the revolutionaries had been, turning everything upside down.“He left the main gate open and waited. When the mob arrived in trucks shouting and clenching their fists they said they were going to take the British and asked where they were. He told them calmly: ‘They are not here. The revolutionary guards have already paid them a visit and they have been taken away.’“He showed them his room and they were fooled and went away.”
Angry: Nassim Shah
Roland Leon/Sunday Mirror
Nassim and her mother were sitting terrified in a dark room.“I could hear the angry ­students chanting ‘Death to America’. My mum was crying and my father didn’t come back until 4am. I am so proud of him. He did it without a gun, just by himself. He took a calculated risk and succeeded.”Mrs Shah believes it’s thanks to Kashmir-born Iskander, who died in 1998, that five Americans survived a night in the UK compound before moving on to be rescued in a joint CIA-Canadian mission as shown in the film.Nassim added: “I am upset about the film because my father is ignored and I am angry that it puts the British people down. You make a film to make money... but don’t distort history.”

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