Original sentence: Arkani-Hamed was born in Houston and spent the early years of his life between Iran and the United States.Arkani-Hamed's father and his colleagues were subsequently blacklisted by the new government; those who were caught were either imprisoned or hanged according to Arkani-Hamed's father.Arkani-Hamed's father, Jafar, who at the time worked at Sharif University in Tehran, wrote a petition with his colleagues denouncing the closures.Arkani-Hamed, who was 10-years old at the time, fled with his family to Canada.Following the 1979 Islamic Revoltuion, Arkani-Hamed's family decided to return to Iran, as the new Iranian government promised free expression and possibilities.His father, who subsequently had to go underground, paid all his life savings in order to get him and his family out of the country.The Cultural Revolution, however, which followed shortly after, resulted in Iran's universities being forcefully shut down
Edited sentence: Arkani-Hamed immigrated to Canada from Iran as a child with his family in 1982