Brian H. Appleton

Thanks Joe

I was there the summer of 2008. I had an incredible time. Everyone was so kind and polite and hospitable to me and I saw more museums in two weeks in Tehran than in the 5 years I lived there. I hadn't been back since the revolution and finding old friends from the 1970's was fantastic. I also went and looked at the three addresses where I had once lived and my best friend's old house near the British Embassy. So many memories came back. When I went to Niavaran, there were photos and childhood books of Shahzadeh and the docent was so nice, she told me her father had once taught English for the Air Force at Damavand Ave just like me. I spent a week in Shomal also. My second book I am seeking to publish is about Assyrians and Urmia.I did a lot of research on it. It took me a year. I have never been to Iranian Azerbaijan and I look forward to going one day...

Brian H. Appleton

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Rasool Aryadust

Brian

I just got back from Iran, fourth trip. When were you there?
Leave the commie alone, he is a spammer. you and I know well Iranians are polite and good hosts:)
Iran is really exciting. Already planning my next trip to visit Kurdistan Urumiyeh.

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Comrade, no one is holding a gun to your head to read my stuff!

My opinions do not represent anyone but myself. What amazes me is the way people like you, think that you, one individual, represent and can speak for a whole country and that you can speak for all your countrymen. I have as much right to appreciate Iranian culture as you do. It has been my passion for several decades now in my own humble way to try to counter the negative propoganda generated in the West about Iran. The demonization of a people and a country and giving 70 million people one name like Saddam or Ahmadinejad is the precursor to invasion and recolonization because the propaganda is used to sell the public on the necessity...like the WMD and nuclear scare.

I wanted to mention that I wrote an article originally for Air France called "5 Days in Tehran, What to do and what to see" because no airline magazine in history except Iran Air had even written such a thing since the West assumes that Tehran is not worthy to be a tourist destination. A few weeks after my vist, Air France stopped flying to Iran. The article can be found in Iranian.com and has had over 1400 hits so not all your expatriot comrades share your sentiment.

Brian H. Appleton

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Rasool Aryadust

Thanks for your kind words Mina

 How many foreigners have ever tried to learn Farsi even though several hundred thousand once lived there, many for a decade or more and what does that tell us? I have lived in many countries and I always try to learn the language and culture since I consider myself a guest.

Anyway you can purchase my book with Paypal, check or credit card off my website at www.zirzameen.com and if you buy it there, I will personally autograph it for whoever you want...you can also purchase it on Amazon but they are incredibly slow payers...they have taken over a year to pay me and also take a deep discount...as usual the artist gets screwed by the large corporate entity...what else is new....the book is also avalable at Barnes and Nobles, Borders, Books Inc. stores in the Bay Area, Kepplers in Menlo Park, IranBooks in Bethesda, Maryland, the Persian Culture Center in Richardson, Texas, felan....

Gorban e shoma,

 Brian 

Brian H. Appleton

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Rasool Aryadust

Dear Brian

I appreciate your interest in Iran.  Please, let us know, how we can purchase your book.  Thanks.

A piece of advice

Are you sure the Cold War has ended? By the way I am no Tovarich. Leave my homeland alone.

what is that supposed to mean exactly?

you don't even know my politics...I am sick of all the cheap shots people with fake names take on this website...go have your flame war with someone else Tovaritch... the Cold War ended, the Russian Federation and the USA are supposed to be friends...what is the matter, you miss the fight? This  blog entry is a completely non political appreication of Persian culture, so do me a favor, don't pervert it...

Brian H. Appleton

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Rasool Aryadust

Everybody knows!

We had to get out, so that you could go there.