He is lying about the details of what happened to his family. Just like the 50k number he threw in. The cross also gives him in. One of the many fake Christians for asylum papers. As for Abdul, smart answer! because the Pahlavi riots had nothing to do with freedom and democracy.
Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed responds to a visibly upset Iranian-American student at the University of Michigan, telling him that U.S. military interventions, sanctions, and regime-change wars often advance corporate interests and harm civilians, rather than promote democracy and freedom.