Brian Grazer has teamed up with Universal to produce Richard Regen’s script “Tehran,” according to Variety.

The film centers on an American professor who is hired by the government to examine tensions in pre-coup Tehran in 1977. He later falls for an Iranian girl whose brother is with the secret police.

Regen also created TV’s “Secret Agent Man” and recently penned “Panic,” a thriller for the Weinstein Co.

Brian Grazer’s producing credits include “A Beautiful Mind,” “Cinderella Man” and “American Gangster.”