The Body of Prime Minister Hoveyda at the Morgue, Tehran, 1979 "When Hoveyda appears, I ask him if his armed bodyguards keep
watch on the outside or the inside of the house. He smiles but does not follow on my taunt which is unusual for a man so full of verve. He is in good spirits, disillusioned but still proud of his balance sheet: 'The roads and
hospitals that I have built will still remain when all this turmoil has settled down.' "This is the last time I see Hoveyda … alive. International pressure on Khomeini makes him postpone Hoveyda's first trial by Khalkhali, the
'Hanging Judge.' On April 7, 1979, I am in the office of Foreign Minister Ibrahim Yazdi, whom I had known as an exile in Paris, to ask for his intervention to cover the second trial which I knew
was imminent. I find out later that this is precisely when Hoveyda is executed. Even Yazdi did not know of the trial. "The next day I photographed Hoveyda's corpse at the morgue.
Gelatin silver print, Courtesy of Magnum Photos, New York
"Tehran, October 1978 … The revolution is in full swing. I call upon Amir Abbas
Hoveyda in his modest house, where he has been put under house arrest by the Shah, thus hoping to appease the popular anger against himself. Even if I had been critical of Hoveyda's actions as
Prime Minister for thirteen years, I want to express my regards to the man, now that he has become a scapegoat for the regime as well as a target of the opposition.
"Even today, I wonder how I would have reacted
towards Hoveyda, had I been able to attend his trial."