After leaving in the late 1970s, Parviz Ghelichkhani embraced the life of an exile—not as a retreat, but as a platform. While many athletes might have faded into private life after retirement, Ghelichkhani transformed into a public intellectual, using his platform to confront authoritarianism in all forms, both from the monarchy and later, from the Islamic Republic. Living in France, far from the stadiums where he once led chants of victory, he became a vocal critic of political repression, particularly the systematic silencing of dissent in post-revolutionary.
