"half the world," as the saying went, back when this was the capital of persia and beyond.es, dating back to the middle ages. ♪ >> shayan: where are you from? >> anthony: the usa, from america. where are you from? from isfahan? or from tehran? >> shayan: tehran. >> anthony: well, nice to meet you. >> shayan: nice to meet you too. ♪ >> anthony: yes, hello. >> man: welcome to iran. >> anthony: thank you. >> man: welcome to isfahan. >> anthony: thank you so much. very beautiful. ♪ i'm guessing from the décor this is a former wrestlers' hangout? ♪ ♪ tucked deep in the labyrinth of isfahan's bazaar, the smell of something very, very good. this shop has been here doing the same thing for a hundred years. and based on the line, it must be doing it right. i've had beryani in india. i've had it in uzbekistan. but, there's no question who invented beryani. >> farrokh: no. no way. [ laughter ] >> anthony: beryani. maybe you know the word. though this doesn't look like any beryani i've ever had. minced lamb shoulder, onion, turmeric, cinnamon, mint, and of course, saffron. more valuabl

>> guest: i am the director of voice of america persia. >> host: where do you broadcast? >> guest: through iran and the persian population. >> host: how big is that region? >> guest: our main audience is iran but we have afghanistan and kurdish as well. >> host: how long has the persian language division been around? >> guest: it started during world war ii so it has been known the too iranians for 17 years. it started as a radio news service to cover the war but also help advance the ali -- allied interests. the internet in iran is tightly controlled and it is heavily filtered. tens of thousands of web sites are blocked and even the most poplar ones, social media, twitter and facebook and so forth. and we know that because our website is blocked. people have to go through vpn. virtual private network to get to our website just to make sure big brother is not watching and they should get to what we have. -- they can. according to freedom house it is a very restricted society. the same as china as far as the internet is concerned. and freedom house also ranks iran in their

>> rebroadcast to persia. big is the persian speaking population?> our main audience is iran, but afghanistan, to take a stand, and the kurdish area also. long has the persian language division been around? >> it started during world war ii. our brand has been known to iranians for 17 years now and started as a radio service. help advance the allied interests among the persian population and among the persian speaking population. the internet in iran is tightly .ontrolled and heavily filtered tens of thousands of websites are blocked, and even the most popular ones -- social media, facebook, twitter and so forth -- and we know that for a fact because our website is blocked. people have to go through virtual private networks to come in and get to our website just to make sure that big brother is not watching and they can get to what we have. restrictive society, the same as china as far as the internet is concerned, and freedom house also ranks iran in their last annual report at the bottom of freedom of far as the internet is concerned. despite all

they had a swastika in persia, way before national socialism came along. >> radcliffe defended asatru, his comments disturbed murray, who let him know how much when he returned to his cell. >> you just made us look like a bunch of [ bleep ]. >> i tried to talk to you about this i swear i did. sorry, marcus. i apologize. try not to get mad at me, man. >> you just sank my boat. >> later we told murray we recorded his exchange with radcliffe and asked him to explain it. >> i was a little man. i mean, it -- he didn't mean any harm, he just -- ignorant of the conduction of leadership roles, and i think now that he has seen that it upset me and knows that it's not really how we do business, i think he's changed his point of view. >> murray hopes to also change the point of view of prison officials. he will soon have a hearing with administrators to appeal their ban on group worship services among asatru members and have it removed from the list of security threat groups. robbie mcanally faces another challenge. he not only feels isolated from his young son but his boyhood friend who just ha

between iran, persia and the third -- theof former germany third reich of former germany?reciate your answer on this. guest: in has been called for thousands of years and it comes iranthe greek term for [indiscernible] iran -- we decide to change iran's title from persia to iran. but theselso had some for not like british influence in the middle east. they were formally allied with not to germany, but the allies did invade iran and did overthrow the shah and insult his son -- install his son as the last shah in 1979 -- last shah in 1979. navy membersr of or held for less than 24 hours in iranian waters but why did the iranian government to that question mark -- government do that? guest: they wanted to show it as force, to show that they are relevant after the nuclear agreement. the hostage-taking was very televised in iran, very public, and the iranian government did try to humiliate the sailors from propaganda points. but because the u.s. and iran have established close diplomatic relations of the highest level and the u.s. secretary of state and foreign minister, this b

and they'll be into persia a long, long time and never retain what was in the past the rle targets. go where people hate things. last month i bought, up over 20%. why? because everybody hated it. yet it's a quality company. just went through its cap cycle. bought another, doing well, because everybody hated it. the market's brutal if you miss and if you buy a quality company and consider the upside to it, your down side can realize and then you see the up side. >> quick -- >> coming back to the financials, more to it than just the fed. kevin is right in the short term, but past the next month or so look at earnings, continued to outperform in the financials despite the low interest rate environment nap will continue. >> switch gears and emerging markets and rally mode. eem up 15% this year. and global chief investment strategist, upside in merging equities. great to have you with us. you upgrade emerging markets to an overweight. did that happen today? >> we upgraded last week. >> all right. is that after, still, a sizable rally. why now? >> yeah. emerging markets have done very wel

[man singing in arabic] yaffa: over 800 years ago in persia in the modern-day iran, a poet was born.so a philosopher, lawyer, and a scholar of islam. his name was jallal ad-din muhahammad rum of course, this genius wawas so a a mumusician.hehe mevvi s sufi brotherhd d that was formemed after t the passing of mr. rumi cocombines mumusic, movement, ad meditation. the ritual takes you through thehe veil of mysticism towards cosmic understanding. it brings you closer to god. [people singing in arabic] [singing continues] yaffa: and this foundation, it--it doesn't--it's not part of the--the government foundation. this is a very independent, uh, foundation, and it's also-- i heaeard that it't's the firste and,d, i think, one of the o ony ones that--that admits, uh, women into it.t. how did ttt come to be? [singing continues] yaffa: in this time when, uh, there's a lot of division going on in--in the world, it seems to be that--that instead of world coming together, it seems to be that the world is dividing again, and, uh, do you have any advice for the younger genererations autut howo gogo

>> i'm the director for voice of america to persia. we broadcast into iran and the equator, persian gulf region. the persian populations of the region. >> hub is the persian speaking population? >> our main audience is a randall dent afghanistan, tajikistan. that's what we refer to our audience, the audience is, not only the audience. >> alone has the persian language division been around? >> it started during world war ii. our brand has been known to iranians for 70 years now and it started as a radio news service. it was to cover the war but also to help advance the alex interest among the persian population and among the persian speaking population. the internet in iran is tightly controlled and heavily filtered. tens of thousands of websites are blocked and even most popular ones the social media, facebook, twitter and so forth. we know that for a fact because the website is blocked. people have to go through virtual private networks to get to our website. just to make sure that big brother is not watching and they can get to what

so to do you have and propaganda a conflation of persia with ancient precious civilization and the idea if they want to revive some ancient persian civilization. in fact, there's some historical precedent of a mistress of persian. i would say the brief answer to that question is that it's not a ms. travis of persian people per se. persian people have been some of the greatest scholars and muslims. from their did it escaped his choice of persian civilization and the pre-islamic persian civilization which is kept alive i can speak a lot more about that, but that is the short answer to that question. >> thank you. we certainly can never not obvious pressures of another commodity deal with this issue issue -- one more in the back. >> ginned safer and turkey. i just wanted to briefly touch upon some issues that was mentioned a few times. first of all, what terrorism means enter key. actually, we taking part in all the important counterterrorism activities. the global counterterrorism for a foreign iso coalition. and what we actually need this while we are fighting this, we are on the same fr