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Every week the war of words between U.S. and Iranian heads of state gets a bit more heated, with the State Department in the last couple of weeks accusing Iran of supplying Iraqi insurgents with weapons technology for killing American troops. At this dark time for US-Iranian relations, Jason Rezaian, an Iranian-American living in San Francisco, has made a business of accompanying Western journalists to Iran, guiding them to the real people. Mostly Rezaian introduces them to street-level Iran, but the job also includes lots of unexpected twists, including procuring liquor for Christopher Hitchens. We'll talk with Rezaian about introducing Americans to the unknown.

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