." >> [laughs] [speaking in foreign language] >> i live in a suburb called, uh, karaj, 30 kilometers from tehran. i live there with my wife. [speaking foreign language] um, nd of nice and boring life. [chuckles] culture, in general, educates people, and enlightens people to know more, to become, um, more familiar with their rights, and demanding that from, you know, the authorities, whomever it is in their own parts of the world, and, um, to not settle for less when they can actually settle for more. but in our society, because of the political system, and the, you know, political changes, especially in the last 30 years, uh, the role of culture has been kind of forgotten, and not really well-respected. i'm not very fond of playing in tehran right now, because, um, it's kind of difficult to, you know, for getting permissions, th