Iran - Tower of Silence

[blastingcaps]

wow..ten minutes of your gay ass "feelings". Thanks.

[esip4life]

Good man, god bless you brother thanks for the video

[SuperPresidentDead]

بندگان بزرگ هرم قرمز اول به پرداخت بیعت را به پادشاه بود، اما متوجه شدند که ساخت یک گل رز تبدیل به احسن خدایان بود.

پس از شکست بزرگ در زمان رحمت از این خدایان را به بشریت قرار گرفت

[persiandudeee]

The islamist government is a like a shameless leach. Iranians/Persians need a nationalistic, free, secular government which will put the goals of iran first insyead of any kind of ideology.

[gangstadudexx]

wow dude respect for (american) people like you

Succes on ur further goals

[dvy45]

great video

[inf0dump]

oooOOOooOOooo! "Great spiritual energy"! Can you feel it?

[adfsghjn]

The man with the cap seems the only slightly sane one of them.

[mirarostodo]

These people have a great privilege to visit these places.

[IsaacBG84]

ancient sacrifice demons is what you felt....

[nyccarini]

toy guys are a bunch of whack jobs

[XUltra00]

Why is that woman so pissed??

[Atinuri53]

The woman tells how spiritual it is and she trys to explain her emotions. The guy whit the cap, it just leves him cold. That's why she's pissed off. XD

[amirjoy2000]

Nice video, but it could be much better to show actual tower of silence itself than talking about the feeleng and discussion. any way tnx for video n your visit to Iran.

[velvetbc]

you are right, it is like somebody talking 10 minutes about a famous painting but don't show the painting itself, sometimes strange things happen in this world

[deLaPace]

Thank you for your video, you are a wise guy, also you are young.

I know the Iran very well and was last month

in yazd at the same place.

[KaiXiSanSanSan]

That's great. The Zoroastrians are ancient Aryans. Just like that guy, who can feel the connection with his distant ancestors.

Good stuff.

[kiarashshah]

i am sure the chick is dutch, cause dutch chicks got the rabit teeth

[CyrusThe3rd]

it's not the teeth, it's the accent with he "he' at the end of the sentence :)

[ThePersianGulf]

the lady with red scarf with her questions and arguments made the guy a bit uncomfotable...

[ThePersianGulf]

Thanks Michael for your peaceloving tour in Iran with oldes history.

[nahidlovessunflowers]

I have been there many yers ago

I got the shiver again when i saw the vid, you guys have described the feeling that u get there very well...

[sibabi]

the funny thing is that I can learn more about my own country by watching your videos!

[jennycone]

Interesting. That said, I wish I had seen less of you and your argumentative friend and more of the actual tower. Until the end, you could have been in front of my neighbors crumbling wall. No offense, but the nonstop emotional commentary ruined what empathetic experience I could have had. Instead I was annoyed. Keep traveling, though! Good on ya.

[giggssoccer83]

pretty cool.

[Persiaisgreat]

Great video ! The silence is awesom !

I have a question. Is the lady originally Dutch ? Because of her accent and attitude. I live in the Netherlands.

[Persiaisgreat]

By the way, I don't have to forget the most important part. Thanks for sharing the video.

[skatepersia4life]

i love being zoroastrian. when i got to see the tower i will cry my eyes out.

[illtakemhomewitme]

why? what is the significance of the tower?

[parandehdarya]

me too...these towers have alot stories to tell us...

[lilmissvixen73]

hey is that lady with the pink scarf Dutch?? her english has a very strong dutch accent. or maybe she's from belgium.. either way somewhere near by.

did u go to Bam on ur trip? very beautiful ancient ruins.. but i don't know if the earthquake completely destroyed it or not..

[parandehdarya]

the man made earth queck destroyed it 100%

[IranianCelebrities]

why is she arguing? she is kinda awkward!!!

[ukrandr]

Thank you for respecting the important sites of another culture and religion. If only those in the past would have had such reverance.

[sarapary]

Good job :)

[RibEye4]

Thank you for your noble journey, this does help the people of Iran, exchange of knowledge and ideas is a threat to the regime.

Long live the spirit of Howard Baskerville and Babak Khorramdin.

FYI, study by Cavalli-Sforza on gentics (on wkikipedia) shows where Iranins are.

[showdiva99]

Iranians in the west prove we are similar to westerners. What was the real point of your trip? PR? Iranians are all over the place, millions of them. No big secret-we all want freedom. Iranians have no power in their goverment, they can not choose their leaders, the supreme bean does that. You act as if Americans have a beef with Iranian people-ain't true. Criminal IRP that treats its people like dirt & treats others equally bad. Bush is gone. mullahs will continue to agitate everyone forever.

[Azadi08]

You don't know any of the people that have been imprisoned for political reasons do you? Most Iranians that once imbraced their faith have lost is. Most iranians that loved to pray no longer do. Most iranians that respected mullahs now want them dead. You simply make the mullahs dreams come true when you travel in a repressive country and make no comment about the lack of freedom. You betray Iranian people when you ignore political prisioners, poverty and hopelessness.

[peacedragon12]

I am aware of the darker side of Iran, and talked about this extensively with many Iranians. I also wanted to put a face on the people of Iran who are currently being demonized by the American government and media. I am not interested in being critical. There are plenty of people doing that already. I appreciate your feelings but I also think I did a good thing. I think a lot of people there appreciated that I came as an affirmation of peace and showed how similar we all are.

[showdiva99]

Dude, you are the regime's dream PR agent come true. You cover IRan as if the people have the freedom to say what ever they want, throw out softball questions that don't deal with the truth. Mullahs & the IRP are begging the kind of coverage you give Iran. I ask you what you would say to a woman who has been tortured by the sadistic mullahs? Mullahs want is mouthpieces like you do their bidding abroad. You completely disgrace all those that have been publically hung, tortured & lost their homes.

[peacedragon12]

I really get your point, however there are many points to make. I was not given freedom or permission to go and film about those things, and my time with people was brief at each location, so I worked with what I had, and what I found was a lot of kindness and open hearted people, and a lot of history. Most of the Iranians I wanted to film about the stuff you are talking about declined. That part will go in my book.

[joojetalaie]

I'm a British born persian and I love the work you did. I'm against both the new regime, and the dictatorship we had under the shah a few years back, because both of them are going against the publics wants and needs. What you've shown here is who Iranian people are and given us an identity, one that usually gets blurred in with arabs and other ethnicities that surround us.

[YMR63]

@peacedragon12 Thanks for the video! Keep up the good work and don't listen to all the complaints. One of the reasons that Iranians lost their roots and ancient religion was because of their critical behavior towards everything specially politics. If you read the history of the last years of Persian Empire you will see even at that time they were not happy and they themsleves were the cause of arab invasion.

[peacedragon12]

For me all of this is a learning process. I went there to learn. I went there to show people we don't have to fear each other. And I learned things I could not have learned from here. I am really open to listen to your feedback, especially if you see a creative way forward to support an end to this kind of oppression, but my work is a work in progress. It is a beginning. Better to do something to foster peace and dialog than nothing at all.

[Ryguy1450]

@showdiva99 Grow up. It's not black and white. Shah tortured ppl too. Why don't you bitch about that? Mosadeq was the only good politician in Iran. Shame on you for demonizing a man who is humanizing the Iranian people. I bet you cant wait to see McDonalds and Walmart in Iran. For shame.

[megamore]

Thank you for this - great video!

[NASIMNASIM]

koskesh

[KianaKKK]

wow that was soo deep

[bibibisim]

Hello,

u are doing a great job.I v been asking myself how one can feel happy in this world of war.Ur videos challenge.tamaris100challenge.­blogspot

[feriacu]

Beautiful Video. But, this tradition is not in the Zoroastrian' book! A group of people in some areas use to put their death into these towers! In other parts of Iran people putting their death inside a place look like a room, and seal the room. They found a big room which was a family grave. ( Both group were Zoroastrians).

[Dadashhhh]

great job - 5star rate

[KianaKKK]

it's a building, what are you supposed to feel?? lol I kind of felt sorry for the guy. if he dosnt feel it he dosnt feel it. I'm persian myself but even with the background and culture it would have been just a historical building to me... i bet she was just pretending so she could make fun of the guy lol

[026853]

Oh You're cute

[sublimenigga]

One of the best vid I saw on this website.

[aryazadehgan]

Beautiful Video ...

Marg bar hokoomat e Islam ...

Long live Iran ... No Islam ...

Javid Shah ....

[mlcp2m]

tell the woman to stop badgering the guy in the blue checkered shirt. she felt a presence , he didn't, so what! maybe in another life she'd been in that part of the world, maybe her senses were stronger, but that doesn't mean he doesn't get it!

the vid is great. Pretty amazing.

[sublimenigga]

For an iranian woman which must keep her chastity, being there, it's like being in a Metallica's concert for an american woman... it's alot of sensations :)

Just kidding

[KianaKKK]

she's not iranian, she dosnt have the accent and she dosnt look iranian either... I would know this becuase I'm iranian...

[swedenmalmo]

crazy people who dont burry their dead oh my god disgusting

[persiapersian]

I really like your video. did you got ot the Kerman there is a city in there called Jiroft which s the oldet human civilization. this civilization been discoverd in 2001 and it has been prove that is oldest human civilization you can see the 4300 years old Ziggurat in there. have look at this website "persianwonders dot com"

[zedbazi141]

Nice video

[talkhun]

Zoroastrianism seems to have put the foundation for many other 'faith/value systems' that came after it. To be eaten by wild birds after one has passed, seems environmentally beneficial to all parties. (Thank you for the videos by the way.Stay safe and keep posting.)

[killerkohyar]

Nice video, I am recently reading about Zoroastrianism. I wish one day to visit that site. Alot of none Iranians and sometimes even Iranians have misconceptions about Zoroastrianism.