Cultural barriers, religious differences and a stressful five years apart because of war were no match for the love between Liz and Morie Goli
Names: Elizabeth and Morteza (Morie) Goli
Years together: 40
Occupations: Tax specialist lawyer and academic
The embassy official in Tehran was unconvinced. It was 1986 and the young Iranian man in front of him was applying for an Australian spousal visa. Morie was explaining that he’d met Liz, an Australian girl, in a pub in London six years earlier, that they had spent almost a year together but he had then had to return to Iran to help his sick father. That they had planned for Morie to move to Australia as soon as possible so he could continue his studies, but then what would be the eight-year Iran-Iraq war began.
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