Tehran

Tehran

I live in Tehran.

To see this object in Tehran, thousands of Jews living in Iran came to Tehran to see it.

We've got 800 people in Tehran who watch TEDTalks.

And last year, the Cyrus cylinder went to Tehran for the second time.

It's seen in Tehran by between one and two million people in the space of a few months.

Now comes the green movement the summer of 2009, as my film is released the uprising begins in the streets of Tehran.

Steak, which stands for a Mubarak Ben Ali type of military police dictatorship, or a potato, which stands for a Tehran type of theocracies.

Preach technology to all the Twittering members of all the Iranian demonstrations who are now in political prison in Tehran, where Ahmadinejad remains in power.

This is a guy in Tehran on the day of remembrance of the Israeli fallen soldier putting an image of an Israeli soldier on his page.

So when the British Museum and Tehran National Musuem cooperate and work together, as we've been doing, the Iranians ask for one thing only as a loan.

What is unbelievably ironic is the period that we tried to depict in the film, the cry for democracy and social justice, repeats itself now again in Tehran.

It's shown being presented here, put into its case by the director of the National Museum of Tehran, one of the many women in Iran in very senior positions,

So for every digital renegade that is revolting in the streets of Tehran, there may as well be two digital captives who are actually rebelling only in the World of Warcraft.

When he has his great celebrations in Persepolis, he summons the cylinder and the cylinder is lent by the British Museum, goes to Tehran, and is part of those great celebrations of the Pahlavi dynasty.

like Germany, America, wherever, a page on Facebook popped up with the same logo with the same stories, so at the beginning we had Iran Loves Israel, which is an Iranian sitting in Tehran, saying, Okay, Israel loves Iran?

If in the Islamic Revolution, the images of the woman portrayed were submissive and didn't have a voice, now we saw a new idea of feminism in the streets of Tehran women who were educated, forward thinking, non traditional, sexually open, fearless and seriously feminist.

Then take Iran itself, and what people are doing today following what happened to Neda, people who are preventing the security services of Iran finding those people who are blogging out of Iran, any by everybody who is blogging, changing their address to Tehran, Iran, and making it difficult for the security services.