Synopsis

The Iron Sheik remains one of the most memorable villains in WWE history, yet the remarkable life of Hossein Khosrow Vaziri, the man behind the persona, has remained largely untold. Once a bodyguard to the Shah of Iran, he fled his homeland in fear for his life, arriving in a new world utterly without knowledge of the English language. Yet, he forged a path to become one of the most reviled and adored figures in wrestling. As the Iron Sheik, he embodied the ultimate adversary, a symbol of fo