After Azadi: man behind Iran's freedom tower on how his life unravelled

Hossein Amanat was forced to flee country after being put on a death list and says his children have never seen the monumentIn 1966, a 24-year-old architect who had just graduated from Tehran University hesitantly entered a competition to design a monument to mark the 2,500-year celebration of the founding of the Persian empire.In hindsight, it was a competition of a lifetime, organised by the shah of Iran, who envisioned that the monument would act as his memorial tower, or Shahyad. Continue re