Persian → English transcript

Back before the revolution, when the Turks came to Iran,

they envied Iran’s roads. They should go and see that on a one hundred kilometer,

one hundred twenty kilometer road, they have built around seventy or eighty tunnels.

We build four tunnels and we act proud of it. Before the revolution,

I was doing my military service,

I was in the Promotion Corps in Zahedan and Zabol,

and altogether they paid me 1,800 tomans.

A Honda motorcycle cost 1,250 tomans.

Now I am a full professor of medicine, a subspecialist, a heart surgeon,

and with three months’ salary I cannot buy a single Honda motorcycle.