This is the Moto-Taxi driver from the opening scenes in Tehran. We were out shooting and needed to get across town quickly, getting a few shots from the back was just a bonus.
Fakhrizadeh's monument with the mosque reflected in the background.
Fakhrizadeh's car, enshrined at the Martyrs Museum.
Women hanging at the mosque. Women not in full head to toe coverings have to grab one of these at the entrance.
You can’t smell when the delicious street meat is finished if you’re wearing a mask.
Suroosh Alvi.
We had amazing drivers in Baghdad, I'm pretty sure they were a lot more than that, but let’s just call them drivers. The middle guy was called the Iraqi Soprano.
Kourosh Zarei, a “Jihadi” movie director in Tehran.
Lots of long blast wall corridors in Iraq.
Completely unprepared to see any combat, we were told 5 minutes before we arrived at this base it was the front lines with ISIS. Luckily they neglected to mention it was the front lines with ISIS last month.
These guys were all pretty pumped on striking serious poses with their guns, then coming over to check them out. No one wanted my contact to get any photos, they were just happy to have them exist.
The guy at the outpost was all hush hush when it came to Iran, then this guy at the base was quite happy to tell us everything they have comes from Iran.
Hadi Al Amiri, most famous for allegedly power drilling people’s skulls, had a lovely yard filled with birds and cats.
Not exactly sure what’s happening here, but when Suroosh turned around he scolded these guys like children.
Just a couple of buddies at the end of the day