First of all, f*** Twitter.
Now, on to Iran, the beautifully mysterious country that (American) millenials found out about thanks to that Parts Unknown episode Anthony Bourdaine put together. While that episode did indeed plant a seed of interest in myself to visit Tehran, a Bloomberg article I read a fortnight ago had me booking a flight to Tehran and setting my itinerary. An itinerary, you should know, consisting of just one activity: get a seat at an Iranian negotiating table - any table with a negotiation going on around it - and hold on for re-lax-muthatrucking-ation. You see, for any of you who end your news search at sites written by ESL-ers for ESL-ers like the HuffPost, Bloomberg tends not to simply write articles as much as they use lusciously descriptive and evocative visual imagery to paint the news for their readership. Case in point (and the reason why I'm now waiting to board Ayatollah Aire): "What's happening around the Iranian negotiating table? Tea, coffee, cake, fruit, maybe some kebab before another coffee." Could I have a side of bureaucratic inefficiency with that? Boom.
Check out the Bloomberg article for yourself, or don't, whatever: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-05/investing-in-iran-you-d-better-like-tea-cake-and-bureaucracy
