Iran or Persia: Meet Ancient Culture on a Level — BBC Documentary
Iran has difficult news coverage, to say the least. The coverage is more or less biased depending on where you live and who reports: It usually shows a couple of hundreds of black-clothed people, raising their fists in front of large posters of Khomeini and chanting some political platitude or other.
The truth is much less threatening or indeed stern or strict: The issue with that kind of information is modern politics and power games in international politics.
‘Hundreds of people’ - as opposed to an overall multi-faceted, and ancient mixture of diverse peoples amounting to around 83.000.000 in total.
The Iranian peoples are friendly and peaceful as a rule and very proud of an ancient tradition that reaches back more than 3000 years.
Its influence can be felt in almost any part of the world since those times. Especially noticeable by way of the ancient Greek culture on the one hand and the Mughal emperors (India) on the other. Culture, language and art have left their traces not only there.
Enjoy this BBC programme “Art of Persia” that does a fine job on getting across the gist of it: https://bbc.in/3ihgz9v
There’s a German and a French version around as well, edited by European arte.tv:
German information: Drei Jahrtausende Iran (TV portal link)
French information: De la Perse à l’Iran, 3000 ans de civilisations (1/3) (TV portal link)
