Editing Lotfi A. Zadeh (section)

=== Iran ===
In 1931, when Stalin began agricultural collectivization,<ref name="visions.az-Samad-Zadeh"/> and Zadeh was ten, his father moved his family back to [[Tehran]], Iran. Zadeh was enrolled in [[Alborz High School]], a missionary school,<ref name="visions.az-Samad-Zadeh"/> where he was educated for the next eight years, and where he met his future wife,<ref name=FL18 /> Fay (Faina<ref name="visions.az-Samad-Zadeh"/>) Zadeh, who said that he was "deeply influenced" by the "extremely decent, fine, honest and helpful" [[Presbyterian church|Presbyterian]] missionaries from the United States who ran the college. "To me they represented the best that you could find in the United States – people from the Midwest with strong roots. They were really 'Good Samaritans' – willing to give of themselves for the benefit of others. So this kind of attitude influenced me deeply. It also instilled in me a deep desire to live in the United States."<ref name=blair99 /> During this time, Zadeh was awarded several [[patents]].<ref name=FL18 />

Zadeh sat for the Iran national university exams and placed third in the nation.<ref name=FL18 /> As a student, he ranked first in his class in his first two years. In 1942, he graduated from the [[University of Tehran]] with a degree in [[electrical engineering]], one of only three students in that field to graduate that year, due to the turmoil created by [[World War II]], when the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union invaded Iran. Over 30,000 American soldiers were based there, and Zadeh worked with his father, who did business with them as a contractor for hardware and building materials.<ref name=FL19>[[#McNeil|McNeil & Freiberger]], p. 19</ref>