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^Here's my best guess as to what happened:

When you go to Imam Khomeini Airport to fly out to your international destination, there are only a few places you can go with an Iranian, and only an Iranian passport and no visa. Turkey, S.A. for pilgrimmage to mecca, UAE (if you're a guy, because of sex trafficing / buying Iranian virgins, it's much harder for women now), and I'm 99% sure you can go to Malaysia/KL as my great-uncle does quite a lot of business there and I don't think he's ever held anything but an Iranian passport. At the airport, when checking in/dropping your bags off, the person at the ticket-counter looks at the ticket and if your final destination is not an Iran-friendly, they ask for the passport you will enter the non-friendly with. They look it over pretty carefully, match it up to the Iranian to make sure the names are the same and in general are fairly thorough. HOWEVER, on the way to the gate you must go through passport control. If your Iranian passport checks out and there are no holds on it, they will simply let you through. I.e. there is no check/verification of the non-Iran-friendly passport other than what happens at the ticket counter.

My guess is, they traveled to KL on a final destination ticket where the stolen Austrian & Italian passports were furnished and tickets to their true final destination were purchased. Luckily for my family, we are blessed with the opportunity to come here and other places with opportunity legally. Sadly, for many young Iranians, especially the ones who come from the more rural parts of the country with lower income, this is not possible. It's just a matter of trying to get out and then figure out a way to make things work wherever you land.