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Why did I journey to Iran and movie a TV present about it? To see by means of the veneer of hatred and perceive the phrase “Death to America” (which I did, by way of my driver’s cry of “Death to traffic!”) — and since I consider it’s simply good type to know individuals earlier than you bomb them. What makes 90 million Iranians tick? Try evaluating our 9/11 baggage to their Iran-Iraq War baggage. Remember the picture of the widow in black who sat cross-legged on the tomb of a lifeless liked one each Friday for many years. And take into account that, beneath the Shah, miniskirts have been shorter in Tehran than in Paris. (As one Iranian girl I met advised me, “We just don’t want our little girls to be raised like Brittney Spears.”) Ultimately, I spotted that the Ayatollah’s base was primarily small-town and less-educated fundamentalist dad and mom — good individuals motivated by the identical factor their counterparts are within the US: Fear and love. Good individuals… motivated by concern and love. Let me take you to Iran, PBS-style, proper now for an hour: www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.

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