dirty everyone stood there and shark until farrar started to laugh then everyone laughed and things quieted down again. but afterwards all the negatives of the pictures taken that evening were collected and destroyed because this moment was not meant to be recorded. the show secret service saw to that. the fact that the shah s hand has been dirtied with oil could be seen as a symbolic historical event because oil had polluted iranian society. that were not in ecological terms. but in the sense that a lot of money came into society and upset the existing class system. of childish