Ayatollah Khomeini Immigration

In 1985, my mother’s immediate family, with the help of my grandfather, Nasser Lajevardi, emigrated from Iran to England, and then to the United states to escape an Islamic political revolution that started in 1979. Firstly, Nasser had 3 little kids, aged 12, 8, and 5, he also has a 38-year-old wife. He was as thin as a grain of rice, had night black hair, worked at the University of Tehran, and just like him, the rest of his extended family lived in Tehran too. In Iran, many people were mad at the “Shah”, or King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi for being too westernized, so in 1979, the Shah was overthrown by an Islamist extremist named Ayatollah Khomeini. This opened the gates for the Islamic Republic to be established, and for Khomeini to become the supreme ruler. …show more content…
Then, Nasser started to feel worried and concerned about staying in Iran because his family and job were in danger. This motivated him to be brave, and consider leaving the country. Unfortunately, as he consulted his extended family, he found out that they wanted to stay, wanted him to stay, and did not want to take the risk of leaving because they thought that the Islamic conflict would be soon solved, so he came up with a plan. His plan was for his immediate family to leave, and for the extended family to stay in Iran. Regrettably, the extended family still wanted him to stay and there were many arguments within the family to stay or to