La Route de la Soie

Iran: Assassins, Emperors and Magi (1x5)

Udgivelsesdato: Jan 10, 2017

Far from the city, at 2,000 meters above sea level, Alfred visits the ruins of Ḥasan-i Ṣabbāḥ’s fortress, founder of a movement known as “Hashshashins” – drug smokers and killers who gave us the modern word “assassin”. Then he goes on to Tehran, an astonishing city far from the clichés, open to other cultures. We learn more about it from the young skater Medhi.