place looks pretty cool and the people seem nice. will wait tho til u can drink and the girls are allowed to dress a little more modern. if only our govt's got along a little better.

Thanks, now the secret service is watching P5's!

what is pretty cool in the video is how the people he talked to viewed americans. the one girl he talks to seems really level headed. she is like, "yea we like americans, its just our gov'ts dont get along and it sucks"

Amused by the youtube user name of the video..afghijackersexposed.

 

Originally Posted by Willywoo

Yea, just ask Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer.

obv there gov't is a crazy, but...

to play devil's advocate, how would our border patrol react if two iranian randoms were caught crossing the boarder in from canada or near it? i don't think it would obv be as bad as what happened to them, but there would surely be people up in arms and who would hear about it and want to throw them in guantamo.

ftr, i think US is 100x better place to live than Iran.

agree with the theocracy being crap. it is kinda interesting to see the history of how it came to be tho. it seems (i want to read more about it) that it is prob at least in part a response to the rule of the shah who we put in place by force.

i am not too informed about that stuff tho, so im not really sure all of what happened except basically from half watching the part in this video series.

what do u think would happen today, first would it ever be possible to get a visa? i'm guessing no, but i dont know. and if u did somehow get a visa, would u trust it, and would u then travel there?

We had an Iranian family in my hometown that had 3 smoking hot daughters. My sister was friends with the youngest and she was the first "exotic" woman I jerked it too. She was 5 years older than me and always flirted(jokingly) with me. Never saw her after she graduated but shes still on my fucket list.

yea, meant would u feel safe there travelling today.

Having been born in Iran but living here in the U.S. most of my life, I have to say that it's a shame that our governments have such hostility towards each other. I think Americans would really appreciate what Iran has to offer in terms of it's people, nature, food, etc. I go back to visit every 3-4 years and it sucks coming back each time because I naturally become so attached to my culture. I'm obv biased, but it truly is a unique culture, and the people are one-of-a-kind.

Sadly, the economy is currently struggling there as well, and Iran is pretty much only worth visiting for a short duration... living there for an extended time would be really difficult imo.

Wow! Nice video's, seriously!

 

Originally Posted by zeppelinzoso16

forgot about that, the currency just plummeted. insane

Good point. If Americans were able to travel there right now they'd get amazing value for the dollar. In Iran, the value of the rial/toman has gone from 1300 or so for every dollar to around 1800 in just a few months. It's really bad.

One wonders what kind of world might result from an American President issuing an official apology to Iran and the rest of the Middle East, bringing all of our troops home and announcing to the world that in the future we will try to lead by example through free trade, diplomacy and peace and our hope is that the rest of the world follows us there.

it really is a little depressing that everything is a power struggle it seems and while awful things have been done, if everybody would just take a step back and say that mistakes were made and let's really try to actually fix it. there are so many people that suffer bc of their gov'ts. most people do, to varying degrees.

it just seems u gain power by labelling somebody an "other" and then using that fear of the "other" to consolidate power.

i dunno, just babbling, but the world really needs to right itself.

 

Originally Posted by zeppelinzoso16

just finished video, his closing is pretty cool

I�ve been wondering to what extent the USA-Iran tensions might be explained by caring people on both sides motivated by love and fear, and the flip side of fear is understanding

yea, i liked how he said that the flip side of fear is understanding.

 

Originally Posted by winwin07

Man is that woman at the beginning of part 2 an enlightened gal. If she is at all emblematic of the young people in Iran it gives me hope that they understand there isn't much virtue to combining government and religion.

Trust me when I say that she represents the ideology of the majority of Iran's youth. I was there 7-8 months ago and was very impressed about how up-to-date they are on America and the West in general. Granted, most of my opinion is based on interacting with college-aged friends of my cousins (similar to the girl you're referring to in the video), but it's pretty obvious that the educated young people are open-minded and very aware of the political climates in Iran and abroad.

On a side note, it's every young Iranian's dream to go America/Europe and pursue their education.