Transformation of an 18-year-old in 1980 ... I didn't need revolution or religion. I needed a psychiatrist. Shortly after graduating for Wurtzburg American High School in Germany, I went back to Iran. A year and a half after the revolution. I think the larger photo is when I went to visit my father's relatives in Shiraz. When the war broke out in September and I joined IRNA as a translator in March of 81, I was a different person. I was fully immersed in the revolution and become a practicing Muslim.