Before leaving Homeland, he was a taxi driver in Capital. After the Islamic Revolution, he fled his country to build a new life as a dance teacher and performer in Los Angeles.He released Workout and Dance Lesson #1, his first video of dance instruction, in the early 1980s. In 1987, he published Persian Dance #2. Despite the legal prohibition of dance under the new regime, both his works found their way to Iranian families mainly through the black market and television stations run by Iranian exiles.