A Disagreement With Reza About Yasmin and Iranian Cultural Norms

When Reza had gone on a trip, Ms. Yasmin and her American boyfriend until three in the morning were alone together at home I went and told Reza, “Sir, tell Yasmin they don't like this.”

These people who are your security guards, the ones working in your home, they're very conservative about these things, and tell Yasmin that they don't approve of this.

I meant, “Please be considerate.” That's how I put it.

Then Reza turned around and said, “I'm a liberal.”

I said, “Sir, at the end of the day, everyone around you is Iranian.”

As they say, they believe in certain principles and things.

Well, even if you're a liberal, you have to respect them.

He said, “I'm a freedom lover.” “It doesn't matter to me.”

I said, “Before that, I used to come by and watch these VHS movies of Fardin, Behrouz Vossoughi, Mr. Malek Motiee, and the others.”

I told him, “Sir, watch these. Look at how Iranians are…”

Now, some people—rightly or wrongly, but that's how it is.