Studenti e rifugiati: i giovani iraniani nell’Italia del secondo dopoguerra [Students and refugees: young iranians in italy in the second post war]

After World War II Italy had always had a good relationship with Iran, defined as a «Special Liaison». This is the reason why in the 1960s, communities of Persian students, linked to international student associations, and hostile to the Shah's regime, settled around the Università per Stranieri of Perugia, and in various Italian cities. Supporters of the Revolution in '79, because it overthrew an oppressive political system, these young people, mostly linked to Marxist and Third World movements, soon became targets of the new repression that the Khomeini regime imposed at home and abroad, While the Italian public opinion turned a blind eye on them, they suffered dramatic persecutions.