[7] Once he realized the full nature of the Nazi's ambitions, Sardari began issuing hundreds of Iranian passports for non-Iranian Jews to save them from persecution.

[12] Sardari helped roughly 1,000 Iranian Jewish families escape the Nazi-occupied country, as well as many non-Iranian Jews.

In hopes of protecting them from persecution, Sardari issued passports and signed affidavits for as many Iranian and non-Iranian Jews as he could.

[3][4] When World War II ended, Sardari worked in Brussels, Belgium for the Iranian Diplomatic Corps.

[9] She disappeared during the Chinese Civil War in 1948 when she travelled to China to receive a blessing from her parents to marry Sardari.

[citation needed] In 1952, Sardari had to return to Tehran, Iran and was charged with misconduct for issuing Iranian passports during the war.

Following the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Sardari's nephew Amir Abbas Hoveyda was executed by the new Islamic regime, and all of his belongings in Iran were destroyed.

[4][9] Sardari has been honored by Jewish organizations such as the convention in Beverly Hills[clarification needed] and the Simon Wiesenthal Center on multiple occasions.

[15] The 2007 Iranian TV series Zero Degree Turn (Madare sefr darajeh) was loosely based on Sardari's actions in Paris.

The focus of the series is an Iranian student who falls in love with a Jewish woman while studying in France during World War II and later desperately looks for ways to save her and other Jews from the imminent threat of deportation.

[16][17] In 2023 it was announced that Abdol Hossein Sardari would feature in an exhibit within the upcoming Fortnite Holocaust Museum.