Tips for reporting from Iran

Neil Katz and Jonathan Schienberg have produced this report from Tehran capital of Iran. In following I provide some tips for every reporter who decides to produce report from Iran:

1. Please shave your face. You can't have beard and expect to hear honest answer. Beard is a sign of Muslim fundamentalists, people who usually work in government, military, paramilitary, police force and something related to regime. That's a sign that people wouldn't trust you.

2. Don't ever take camera with yourself if you want honest answer about how people think about Iranian regime and what they want or even what they think of the US. You need know that people can't express their opinions freely in totalitarian atmosphere and there is a constant fear there.

3. Would you tell me, did you have obligation to contact a specific agency to use their guide for your interviews?! I don't know what is your answer but all foreign based reporters should use a guide from that specific agency in Tehran and to have this guide with themselves on their interviews.

This agency belongs to Islamic regime of Iran and people who work there have specific responsibilities. So you better off to use your interpreter and guide, if you can!

4. To get real voices, just take a taxi (we do share taxi rides from a source to a destination, I recommend you to get ride between major destinations which people tend to talk on the taxi like Enghelab Sq to Azadi Sq, Enghelab to Vanak St and so on but not in northern part of Tehran) pop your question or just wait and see how people start complain and criticise everything in Iran, from mullahs existence and their wrong brutal policies to economy, from Ahmadinejad to PMs and altogether...then there you could ask about how Iranian feel about the US.

I have a comment on their report (Iran: Views from the Streets of Tehran report) that Iranian people have been waiting to have good relationship with America for about 28 years. Because most Iranians know that the regime is an Islamic totalitarian regime so there is no connection between people and regime. People just waiting for some kind of force by Allah (as they say) or something else to come and get rid of mullahs. You could see for yourself if you would sit down and talk to them.