Quite a few return to Iran to work for the mullah regime. For details, you can read Reza Kahlili's book, A Time to Betray.
It was President Carter's 'two weeks" moment!!!! But, he was decent enough to keep it to himself!!! The Shah understood it in full clarity!!!! Don't know about the Iranians, but the elders of my family, who were mostly civil and military officers, couldn't hide the gloom in their faces learning that the Shah was gone....
Yes, I can relate with that. Almost all my Iranian acquaintances except for the die hard monarchists [minority] went back to Iran. Many got jobs and avoided going in early 1980s [although few even then went back] because of the certain draft into Iranian Army and onto the meatgrinder on the front lines against Iraq.
Actually strictly speaking only the Arabian peninsula [most of the oily kingdoms] are true Arab. Rest like Syrians, Palestinians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Libyans, Tunisians, Algerians, Maroccans have separate feedstock and history. They are as Arab as English speaking Jamaicans are English.
The craziest story I heard from the 1980s was from the student whose dad was Iraqi and mother Iranian: both sides wanted to draft him into their armies! His only hope to avoid such a fate was to maintain top grades, thereby keeping his student deferment.
