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Deeply confusing, exhilarating, heartbreaking, beautiful place. >> jason: yeah, exactly. ♪ [ tires squeal ] [ laughter ] >> keyvan: american cars are crazy. >> anthony: american cars are crazy and they're fun. [ tires squeal ] 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. [ laughter ] ♪
Place in this middle east. you cannot play a game without considering iran as a friend. >> anthony: one of farrokh's many passions is ancient persia, culinary history in particular, and he's writing a book on the subject. >> anthony: how do you pronounce the specialty here, dizi? >> farrokh: what they serve is called dizi. which, actually, is the name of the pot. >> anthony: that's right, it's a, like, an earthenware -- >> farrokh: yeah, earthenware. >> anthony: right. >> farrokh: this is one of the early dishes of human kind. it goes back through mesopotamia six thousand years ago. >> anthony...
Look, we know what iran the government does. george w. bush famously called them part of the "axis of evil." their proxies in iraq have done american soldiers real harm. there is no doubt of this. but i hope i can be forgiven for finding these undeniable truths hard to reconcile with how we're treated on the streets everywhere we go. so forget about the politics if you can for a moment. how about the food? the food here is amazing. ♪ chelo kebab -- as close as you get to a national dish, and the king of kebabs. ground lamb with spices, a good place to start. >> anthony: so what do you guys d...
>> anthony: don't shoot. >> todd: yeah. >> local crew: let us cross the -- ♪ >> jason: we are in the northernmost spit of land in tehran. up here, in darband, uh, the road stops and it gets really steep. a place for iranians to escape the heat, escape the pollution, and have a kebab and a shisha, and just kind of unwind. as print journalists, our job's difficult but it's also kind of easy 'cause there's so much to write about. you know? it's, it, the difficult part is convincing people on the other side of the world that, that what we're telling you, we're
>> anthony: i don't know that i can put it in any kind of perspective. i feel, you know, deeply conflicted. deeply confusing, exhilarating, heartbreaking, beautiful place. >> jason: yeah, exactly. ♪ >> keyvan: american cars are crazy. >> anthony: american cars are crazy and they're fun. [ tires squeal ] 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. [ laughter ]