A Time to betray

The Iran of Reza Kahlili's youth allowed him to think and act freely. His political and personal freedoms flourished while he studied computer science at the University of Southern California in the 1970's. The sudden death of his father brought him back to an Iran he scarely recognized. The revolution of 1979 plunged Iran into a dark age of fundamentalism. In the hope of a Persian Renaissance, he joined the Revolutionary Guards, an elite force devoted to the Ayatollah. But Ayatollah Khomeini was becoming a fundamentalist tyrant and so Reza became "Wally", and worked for the CIA as he continued his life as a Revolutionary Guard.