To bide his time, Talattof took a position teaching education at a local university, but the government accused him of promoting pro-American values. Talattof knew he had to escape, but he wasn’t able to obtain a visa to go back to the States and the Iranian government wasn’t renewing passports. The very next day, Talattof arrived in the capital city of Tehran, unaware that the country in which he’d grown up would soon be unrecognizable.
Iran’s pro-Western government-led by its monarch, the Shah-collapsed on February 11, 1979, ushering in a restrictive theocratic regime. After receiving his master’s degree in education from Texas A&M University–Kingsville, he returned to his home country to visit family in 1979.
Talattof grew up in Iran but left the Middle Eastern country for the U.S.
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