He studied in the United States and in Tehran.While attending high school in Washington, D.C., (the Honeywell Foundation) in September 1947, he skipped school to take a train to Hollywood, California, to visit his brother, Mahmoud, who was studying at UCLA. He stated that he did so because his high school did not have girl students and he was homesick.[6] He had acted similarly three months previously, leaving his high school in Newport, Rhode Island, to travel to Paris and Provincetown.