Personality Type: ISTJ
Age: mid 20’s
Ethnicity: Persian
Position: Engineering & Tech
Background: Omar moves to Franklin City after he and his family fled Iran after the 1979 Revolution.
Omar grew up in Tehran more well-to-do than his colleagues in most regards. His father was a profession of theology at the American University in Tehran and his mother was in a leadership position at the Organization of Iranian Women, a progressive group that fought for various women’s issues, including suffrage, which they won the year after Omar was born.
Omar himself went to excellent schools, excelling particularly in math and engineering. When he was young he constantly took apart radios and televisions but eventually learned how to put them back together. He was on track to go to university for an engineering degree, but the revolution changed things. His mother’s organization was outlawed, his father was removed from his position and arrested. Their home was confiscated, forcing Omar and his mother to move to an unfamiliar part of town where the ayatollah’s fervent base brutally enforced the new sharia law. His mother’s beautiful western suits and shoes were burnt along with many of their other belongings when forced from their home and because now, Omar had to make money for the house while his father was imprisoned, going to university was no longer on the cards.
For five years Omar worked at a small electronic shop in Tehran, by the time his father was released from prison, Omar had saved enough money and laid a plan in place so that they could escape to America. They were successful and arrived in Franklin City in 1984.
Once in Franklin Omar began working with a pirate radio station for fellow dissidents and opponents of the Ayatollah who had also relocated to Franklin City. In 1987 the house boat from which they would broadcast was raided, the equipment was seized, the station was shutdown, and Omar received a 15 month sentence for breaking federal communication laws.
