{"id":8009,"date":"2016-08-26T08:52:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T08:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/?p=8009"},"modified":"2026-10-04T21:34:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T21:34:59","slug":"videovisitiran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/videovisitiran\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDon\u2019t Go to Iran\u201d: The 2016 Tolt Travel Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cDon&#8217;t Go to Iran\u201d<\/strong> is a 2016 travel film by French filmmaker Benjamin Mant\u00e9-Martini, published under his Tolt travel-film project. The title is deliberately ironic: the video contrasts familiar stereotypes with scenes from a journey through Iran.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nbjVrm6XS_A<\/div><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What the Film Shows<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The short film uses landscapes, architecture, food, sport and everyday encounters to challenge the narrow image of Iran that the filmmaker expected viewers might know from mainstream coverage. It is a personal travel film rather than a comprehensive account of the country, and its perspective reflects a trip made in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The original video remains available on YouTube as <strong>\u201cDon&#8217;t go to Iran &#8211; Travel film by Tolt #4.\u201d<\/strong> For current trip planning, use our <a href=\"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/iran-travel-guide\/\">Iran travel guide<\/a>, where practical information can be updated independently of this archive video.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the 2016 Tolt travel film \u201cDon\u2019t Go to Iran\u201d by Benjamin Mant\u00e9-Martini and see how its ironic title challenges familiar travel stereotypes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":66484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,308],"tags":[257],"class_list":["post-8009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism-iran","category-destinations","tag-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dont-Go-to-Iran.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200556,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8009\/revisions\/200556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}