The only American exiting the plane didn’t dare draw extra attention to himself.
He kept his head down walking through the airport to the taxi line to avoid making eye contact with any of the strangers he sensed staring at him.
It was early Friday morning, and for the first time since he came to Iran to play professional basketball, Kelvin Amayo did not feel safe. He was still reeling from finding out that the U.S. and Iran were on the brink of war minutes earlier when he and his teammates turned on their phones after their flight landed in the Iranian city of Tabriz.