In the 1980’s I worked with an Iranian electrical engineer; smart guy. He went back home around the time of the Iran/Iraq war to see his father who was dying of cancer. While there he got his draft notice so he immediately went to the airport to leave. At the airport they held him in custody to see if his name was on the draft roster. The roster was a day or two old so his name was not there so he was allowed to leave. He said if his name had been on the roster they would have taken him out back and shot him. His medical student brother had to pay lots of money to get smuggled over the mountains to Turkey and back to the US.
Wow...close call.