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00:00 [MUSIC]
00:07 >> Mr. Trump is also doubling down on his threat to attack up
00:11 to 52 sites in Iran, including cultural sites.
00:14 >> The sites of ancient Iran really represent a very
00:17 important chapter in human history.
00:20 >> My resolution is very simple.
00:22 Attacks on cultural sites in Iran are war crimes.
00:28 [MUSIC]
00:34 >> Dr. Edward Kiel, an English-Canadian archaeologist,
00:38 is a specialist in Iranian history and civilization.
00:42 >> So we have this very intriguing situation that we're
00:45 dealing with a ruin that doesn't seem to belong to King Yazdegerd anymore.
00:49 [MUSIC]
00:57 >> I was the first person who applied any archaeological attention to the site.
01:02 >> There is a perfect good reason for
01:04 Yazdegerd being there, but the site doesn't date to his period.
01:07 >> These days I speak of it, of Ali Yazdegerd being in fact
01:10 the stronghold of a Parthian warlord.
01:14 [MUSIC]
01:18 In the 1960s, when I was a young man, I spent two or three years in Iran.
01:23 The landscape blew my mind, fantastic sky.
01:27 >> Who are you, I said.
01:29 >> I am the warrior of the background gold.
01:33 [LAUGH]
01:34 [MUSIC]
01:44 There really wasn't any road in those days.
01:48 I knocked on the door in the dark, and they said, who is it?
01:50 The most stupid response I've ever made in my entire life.
01:54 I said, it's me.
01:55 [LAUGH]
01:56 [MUSIC]
02:01 I probably would have had to work there for 100 years.
02:05 There's so much work to be done.
02:06 In 1978, because of the revolution, everything was fine.
02:10 The CIA was supporting the Shah.
02:12 Little did I know, of course,
02:14 because it did indicate that the revolution had some backbone.
02:18 [MUSIC]
02:23 Wherever I have gone, there's been trouble afterwards.
02:27 [LAUGH]
02:29 [MUSIC]
02:36 I began to understand something about the culture.
02:40 It was just a mind-blowing experience.
02:43 People would say, why don't you want to go back to Iran?
02:47 I never wanted to go back to Iran because I thought changes that had occurred
02:51 would simply destroy the image that I had.
02:54 So for many years, I really chose not to go back.
02:57 [MUSIC]