American Solo Traveler Reveals Experience in Iran Just 9 Days Before Bombings

Travel content creator, Don Broussard reflects on his trip to Iran just 9 days before bombings started.

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00:00I literally was there just having the time of my life with these people and now I'm here in America

00:05you know comfortable and these people are actually having to deal with this and people are losing

00:11their lives. I travel extensively through these parts of the world right I've been through I've

00:22been to Afghanistan I've been to Iraq Pakistan Libya and so on and so forth and when I thought

00:28of going to Iran I was like you know what this is a place that I I've heard so much about in the media

00:34right and I really just wanted to go and see this place for myself I didn't know what to expect I

00:40didn't know how I would be received as an American I was nervous and kind of like dude are you are

00:45you sure you want to you want to get off the plane and and step into this unknown territory but as we

00:51drove I started to notice just how massive Iran was right you could literally see it all from the

00:57distance just these thousands and thousands of homes and I think in my narrow mind I had this

01:03this vision of what Tehran actually looked at looked like and it was very small and limited but

01:08it's extremely large but my I would say when I made it to Tehran at night in the market my first

01:14impressions were just the people were just super curious when they saw me and especially when they

01:19heard me speaking English they would literally like turn around and like what are you like what are

01:24you doing like where are you from right you know and I would tell them America they'd be like oh my

01:29god love America you know love America love America welcome to your second home the people went out of

01:34their way to welcome me you know to make me feel at home you know they they told me stories about their

01:40families they you know they they um they told me about their history and they led me invited me into

01:46their homes you know cooked for me made me food and it's just yeah it's just it's just so so amazing

01:52this this just reaffirms that at the end of the day we all are humans we all have so much in common

01:57than what separates us you know and that's what I love seeing when I travel to these places is just

02:03the humanity and honestly before all this kind of escalated my plans was to actually return I don't

02:10know how that looks in the future no one knows when they will return return to allowing you know

02:16foreigners in if that ever even happens again because the bombing was happening in Yazd and all these

02:21these these places that I had literally just left from I have a really unique role and opportunity

02:26when I visit these places I'm essentially the middleman it's not about me it's about it's about

02:31these people it's about their stories it's about humanizing these people in places that is the role

02:37that I play when it comes to creating content is just bridging these gaps from people across the world

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