charring the saucepans and baking his decaying corpse. In exile, Farrokhzad had become a scathing critic of Iran's hard-line regime, mocking Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as being illiterate, delusional, and obsessed with sex in his writings. He produced a radio show for the Paris-based opposition group Flag of Freedom and helped ngineer the defection of an Iranian pilot to Iraq during the two countries' bloody war.