THE REASON WHY WE ARE HERE

No, not love, I say, not those too beautiful girls in Esfahan, not Elham and Elaheh, nor any other of those seducingly veiled Iranian girls. We must remember the reason why we are here: We have traveled around the globe to bring the revolution to Iran. The Iranians want at new revolution! That's what the Americans told us: "It is incubent upon us to help the Iranian people overthrow their government!" But now, that we are finally here – after having traveled all around the world and up through the entire deserted, dry and red-brown dusty land of plains and mountains to Tehran – the Iranians don't really want to be helped, they don't really want this new revolution. The filmmaker Mohammad (but this is not his real name, off course, his real name is much longer, more complicated) just wants to talk about art, about literature and theatre and film, "take away this politics from you project!" he says, and the head of the university for film and theatre just wants to sit in his still unwrapped chair on the fifth floor talking about his new film, the story of a little boy who leaves his home and village to bring the old teacher back to the village so that the grown-ups will remember that they also once have been children, and his pupil, our cameraman Meysam, stops filming every time our revolution is about to begin, he just wants his unwrapped teacher on the fifth floor to say that he is a good pupil, "he say I ham very active!", he smiles, and our interpreter just wants to take us to the mountains or to the sea, far away from the Iranian people, and everybody else just want a pizza or a new mobile phone, and the boys all make their hair stand like frozen in panic, and the girls just want their scarfs to fall down by themselves as a personal, but unintended revolution, but the real revolution, OUR revolution, no one here really seem to want. "I want kiss!" Elaheh screams like a five years too-young girl in the telephone from Esfahan, "I want kiss! I want kiss". Yes. Love. That is what they want.