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>> i'm so glad to be here. thank you. hello. hi. good to meet you. people have been ridiculously nice to us. aren't you guys supposed to be the axis of evil? >> you are right. we are demonized by the media outside. you show black and white. people are demonstrating, and killing and bombing and this and that and you see and this and that, but you never talk about the real people who are actually living peacefully inside the country. you know? and eventually in the future of the world, we and americans have a very special place in this, you cannot play a game without considering iran as a friend...

I feel deeply conflicted, deeply confusing, exhilarating, heartbreaking, beautiful place. >> yeah, exactly. ♪ >> hey, american cars are crazy. >> american cars are crazy and they're fun. >> yeah. >> all i can tell you is the iran i've seen on tv and read about in the papers, it's a much bigger picture. let's put it this way. it's complicated.

Unamerican not to go to those places, you know. >> i feel deeply conflicted. deeply confusing, exhilarating, heart breaking, beautiful place. >> exactly. [ horns honking] >> hey, american cars are crazy. >> they're crazy and fun. >> yeah. >> all i can tell you is the iran i've seen on tv and read about in the papers, it's a much bigger picture. let's put it this way. it's complicated.

You know? and eventually in the future of the world, we and americans have a very special place in this, you cannot play a game without considering iran as a friend. >> one of his passions is ancient persia, culinary history, and he is writing a book. how do you pronounce the specialty here? dizi? >> dizi, it's the name of the pot. >> earthenware. >> this is one of the dishes of humankind. it goes back to mesopotamia. 6,000 years ago. >> potato, chick peas, water, lamb cooked together. add a little fat. mash it up with potatoes and chickpeas. that's good. what do iranians want to eat today? it...

Journalists have been simply disappeared into the maw of the national security system. huh? >> it's some military place. don't shoot, please. ♪ >> we are in the northern-most spit of land in tehran. up here the land of tehran, the road stops and it gets really steep. the place for iranians to escape the heat, escape the pollution and have a kabob and just kind of unwind.