The People's Forum: I had a job in tehran about 12 year ago

Not for long, two months I believe. I was a teacher trainer doing some freelance work there. The people I met were the kindest and most hospitable I have met anywhere. I also met party sort of people via couchsurfing, and managed to travel around a little. I had a great time in Iran, and all my local colleagues were forever taking off their headscarves whenever it felt safe.

Only downside was because of my Iranian stamp in my passport, I couldn't get into America a few years later, they thought I was a terrorist or something.

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I just watched. I recorded it from BBC 2 and it's an Iranian movie called Law of Tehran. It's about cops going after drug dealers and addicts but it's very scary to watch. I've long suspected what the regime is like in Iran but I wasn't prepared for this. The police are totally brutal and it's like watching a Panorama documentary on Tehran, its cops and the drug dealers and users. The acting, if that's what all of it was, is outstanding and depicts life that we can't possibly understand. Either side of the fence. Leaves you quite shaken.