Bishop Hasan Dehghani Tafti and Dr. Pont stayed in Isfahan until 1358, perhaps, according to themselves, “remembering the promising revolutionary slogans that promise to establish peace and friendship for all, eradicate oppression, destroy suffocation and insecurity, and blow the spring of freedom. Khursheed would provide security and prosperity of justice so that they could keep the hospital and their troops still in service. But with the killing of Reverend Parviz (Aristo) Siah in Shiraz, the stabbing of Mrs. Jean Waddel, the secretary of Bishop Dehghani in Tehran, and the arrest of Bishop Dehghani in Isfahan, panic and fear filled them. Every day, a group pressured the peasant bishop to give them the money of the church, but the bishop did not accept and said, “This money belongs to the people to be entrusted to me.”
