From an Ivory Tower
We saw each other at the departmental teas at least once a week, played chess and chatted. He returned home and disapeared near Khoremshah.
I've no doubt that he joined the Revolutionary Guards before posting to the defense of Khoremshah. It was their Stalingrad, their Verdun, their Ypres, their Gettysburg.
Callling the RG a "terrorist organization" is an error.
The "Ivory Tower" was Evans Hall, 10th floor, the Berkeley Math Department's common room.
And the Junior Senator from New York is indifferently advised.