Talk:Denis Wright

Mission to Iran
The claim made by Sidney Nowill, that Wright's story of having visited the Shah in "the West Indies" was "rubbish", and that Wright had instead visited the Shah in prison in Tehran, where he had been detained, and persuaded the authorities there to release the deposed monarch, is clearly false.

The Shah never spent time in an Iranian prison (it's highly unlikely he'd have been allowed to escape "the Hanging Judge" if he had), having left the country permanently in January 1979, and indeed was in the Bahamas (not Bermuda as Nowill presents various obituaries of Wright as having claimed) from March to June 1979. Nowill says that Wright told him this personally, but he must either must have grossly misremembered the exchange or Wright was misrepresenting events one way or another. --Varavour (talk) 03:12, 18 June 2019 (UTC)