>>host: abbas milani, where did they catch up with you? what happened? >>guest: a group of intellectuals new the level of our activities. so they came and arrested me >>host: we at the university or at home? >>guest: at the time i was the minister of education. they caught me at the university. >>host: and the shah minister? >>guest: yes. and then soon to become the prime minister. halfway through regatta call that my name has come up but i was about to leave the ministry to make sure that you do not bite the cyanide pill it is more popular than unpopular. but then they took me to a place and they spent six months there in prison. >>host: wear your tortured -- where all were you tortured? >> solitary confinement for about a month and beat up a couple of times it jimmy carter was elected and overnight you could see how the borders had come down and i almost got pneumonia after 48 hours it took me to the hospital in the prison and is the best in the worst of humanity. and they still do have friends from prison but in my case a couple of beatings and solita