\u201c\u2018Are you sure you wanna go to Iran?\u2019 some of my friends asked me after they knew about my trip to Iran.\u201d Says Allen. The American retired Asian studies professor of San Diego State University who decides to visit Iran again after half a century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Allen Wittenborn, who is 80 years old now, visited Iran first in 1969. It was when the former King was in power. He started his journey from London and visited many cities and countries like Paris, Prague, Istanbul, etc. and then arrived in Tehran. It was when he was astonished by the modern, open atmosphere of Tehran<\/a>. He believes the society was comparable to European countries and even the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n