Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A shekara ta 1941, har yanzu bai kammala karatun sakandare ba, ya bar Birjand zuwa Tehran. Ya yi niyyar halartar Makarantar Fasaha ta Tehran da Jamus ta kafa, ɗaya daga cikin mafi kyawun makarantun sakandare na wannan lokacin kuma ya koyi yaren Jamusanci. An shigar da shi a wannan makaranta a kan yanayin da za a sauke shi shekaru biyu. Ba da daɗewa ba a cikin 1942, shi da sauran dangi sun sake barin Tehran don ƙaura zuwa Gorgan. A cikin 1945, ya yi ƙoƙari na ƙarshe don kammala karatun sakandare a Urumieh, amma ya kasa. A shekara 29, bayan faduwar
Firayim Minista Mohammad Mosaddeq, an kama Shamlou saboda kasancewa memba na Jam'iyyar Tudeh ta kwaminisanci ta Iran kuma an daure shi sama da shekara guda.