When Hassan Nayeb-Agha left his home to play Scotland in the 1978 World Cup, Iran seemed stable. But by the time the midfielder for Iran’s national squad came back a month later, the country had begun its irreversible slide into Revolution.

​When Hassan Nayeb-Agha left his home to play Scotland in the 1978 World Cup, Iran seemed stable. But by the time the midfielder for Iran’s national squad came back a month later, the country had begun its irreversible slide into Revolution.