I have a longtime Iranian friend, Ali, who was involved in our movie. He has a limo service here in Austin, and he picks people up at the airport for me. I told him I needed a bright yellow cab, but it couldn't say Austin on it because it was supposed to be Washington DC. So, he arranged it. I had nothing to do with it. I just gave him a date, time, and location, and he saw to it that a cab was there, which happened to have an Iranian driver. And this driver was very pleasant and accommodating because we were running late, and he had to wait. Then, we had to do several takes. And he was very nice about it. There is so much stress on a movie set, but he didn't give us any.
So, here is Junes Zahdi as Abdul Latif Hassan, making a fast getaway in a cab after extracting himself from a dicey situation
And here is a video by an American who traveled to Iran, about how warm and kind and generous the Iranian people were to him, how eagerly they welcomed him, a stranger, into their homes, and how much they are suffering now because of the sanctions.
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