Iran Seven - Transcription
I was born in Tehran, eh, I was raised in Tehran until I was twenty-one. Then, uh, I was fortunate that I could come to United States to, uh, in the first place to get educated and had a chance and opportunity to stay here and live a life. I was mainly in Tehran most of my life. I went to Northern part of Iran which is uhhh, uh, very wet area in terms of atmosphere and temperature as far as rainfalls and so forth. It's a very nice and very pleasant area, somewhat like Oregon. And, uh, I was there several times. As far as other area of the country, no, I didn't have a chance to travel much. First encounter, uh, well it may sounds kind of crazy, but when we were kids, always listened to the American and the, uh, American radio as well as watching the American programmings on TV. Mainly basketball. And every time they had the, uh, commentator going on about, you know the excit- exciting part of the game, he kind of sounded like this: wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah. But eventually I got to learn what those wah, wah, wah means. I hope. Well this is about, its just a single phrase about peace on earth. And basically, in Farsi, you say "solh e jahaani" and it means peace on earth.
Transcribed by Alex Wolfson