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- Moody boasted that this was an affluent neighborhood on the northern side of Tehran; his sister's house was just two doors away from the Chinese Embassy.†
- Quickly she blurted out the telephone number and address of the U.S. Interest Section of the Swiss Embassy in Tehran.†
- That night in my bedroom I worked out a simple code to disguise the embassy's telephone number and address, and copied the information into my address book, stashing it under the mattress with my money.†
- Surely the embassy would be able to get Mahtob and me out of here, if only I could find some way to contact a sympathetic official.
*embassy = the ambassador and staff
- When he was threatening, it hardened my resolve to somehow establish contact with the embassy.†
- I slipped a supply of Iranian rials out of their hiding place, grabbed Mahtob, and quietly left the house if I could not make contact with the embassy over the telephone, I would somehow find my way there.†
- I tried to tell the driver to take us to the U.S. Interest Section of the Swiss Embassy, but he could not understand I repeated the address my mother had told me on the phone: "Park Avenue and Seventeenth Street."†
- "We are going to the embassy," I said, able to breathe more easily now that we were on our way.†
- After bounding his car through the streets of Tehran for more than a half hour, the driver paused at the Australian Embassy on Park Avenue.†
- Moments later we pulled up in front of our haven, a large, modern, concrete building with a plaque declaring that it was the U.S. Interest Section of the Embassy of Switzerland.†
- I spent the next hour at the embassy in shock.†
- This might give me a chance to contact the embassy once more, to see if Helen was holding any mail for me, or if the State Department had been able to do anything to help.†
- Finally, on the fourth or fifth shopping trip, I decided to risk a telephone call to the Swiss Embassy.†
- While Hamid worked, I telephoned the embassy and managed to get Helen on the line.†
- Helen said she had sent Moody two certified letters ordering him to bring us to the embassy.†
- Thus far I had trusted my story to no one outside the embassy.†
- Whether he doubted my story, or whether the embassy's letters had put him on guard, Moody grew openly menacing and belligerent over the next several days.†
- As I recovered my health and ventured out more frequently, I stopped at Hamid's shop at every opportunity to call Helen at the embassy, and to discuss my plight with my newfound friend.†
- Although the information I received from the embassy-or the lack thereof-was demoralizing, it was still my only point of contact with home.†
- I ached to pick up the phone, which was well within my reach, and call the embassy, but I dared not make any overtures during this first day.†
- As soon as Ali learned that Moody was a doctor he mentioned that he was trying to obtain a medical visa' to visit the United States for treatment of a heart condition Judy added that she was flying to Frankfurt the following week, where she would visit the American Embassy to try to get the visa for him.†
- Please go to the American Embassy in Frankfurt and tell them that I am here They must do something to help me.†
- I knew that the embassy had contacted him about me, but he did not know that I knew.†
- I was surprised and shocked that anyone from the embassy would call me here, but I fought hard to conceal my apprehension from Nasserine.†
- He knew that the embassy was trying to reach me, but he did not know that I knew it.†
- He decided to believe in my ignorance, but he was clearly upset that someone-most probably someone at the embassy had tracked me to Mammal's home.†
- It had been weeks since I had been able to talk to Helen at the embassy, when she had warned me about the mysterious women who were looking for me.†
- I used the time to telephone Helen at the embassy, and she warned me once more about the two mysterious women who seemed bent on helping me.†
- "Mahtob," I said, "we are going to the embassy this morning.†
- We found an office for a telephone taxi and I gave the driver directions to the U.S. Interest Section of the Swiss Embassy; Mahtob helped with the translation.†
- "An American woman also contacted the American Embassy in Frankfurt about you," Helen continued.†
- They will be issued through the U.S. Embassy in Switzerland.†
- She ushered Mahtob and me into the office of her boss, a Mr. Vincop, the vice-consul of the embassy.†
- "I'm calling from the vice-consul's office at the embassy," I said.†
- Should I heed the counsel of the embassy officials or should I grasp for freedom anywhere I could find it?†
- All I want is for you to arrange for me to get out of the house sometimes, like today, so that I can go to the Swiss Embassy.†
- I told her about my contacts at the embassy, how they were sending and receiving mail for me, and doing what they could to help.†
- Well, I don't want to go to the embassy," Ellen said.†
- My husband told me, when we first came, that I'm not allowed to go to the embassy, so I have never even seen it.†
- Helen and Mr. Vincop at the embassy had stressed that the real snag in that first scenario was the possibility of having to hide away from Moody, and perhaps the police, while remaining in Tehran.†
- I grew frantic to see Helen at the embassy, to check out this new plan with her and weigh her advice against my immediate affection for Miss Alavi.†
- I called Ellen at work and told her it was time to activate our plan to get me to the Swiss Embassy.†
- I was furious with Ellen, and desperate to get to the embassy, but I dared not go there without the assurance that Ellen would cover for me.†
- How could I get to the embassy?†
- Had the embassy called?†
- We were heading along the somewhat familiar route that led to the U.S. Interest Section of the Swiss Embassy.†
- In fact, the hospital where we finally arrived was almost directly across the street from the embassy!†
- I recognized Moody's quandary immediately, for if he went to see Nelufar, he would have to leave Mahtob and me unattended here in the reception room across the street from the embassy!†
- It was strange to be this close to the embassy and powerless to act.†
- We walked quickly to a nearby house, passing to one side of the embassy.†
Definition:
an ambassador and staff who live in a country to represent their home country; or the building where they work