When God Sleeps

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[train announcement in German]

Yeah, yeah.

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[cameras clicking, people chattering]

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Hello?

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

has repeated the death sentence

against the author, Salman Rushdie,

after the publication of Mr. Rushdie's novel,

"The Satanic Verses".

Mr. Rushdie, he said, had committed blasphemy.

He would have to be executed.

[* Fereydoun Farrokhzad: "Safar"]

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- Hi. - Hello.

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[upbeat acoustic guitar playing]

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[man singing in foreign language]

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Eleven people are dead in an attack

on the satirical magazine, "Charlie Hebdo".

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When I first met Shahin,

he had a talk in California.

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He came to me, he was like,

"Um, you want a picture?"

I said, "No."

"Okay, so, why... why are you staying here?"

I was like, "I'm just staying for my friends."

He was, like, so pissed

that I didn't care about getting a picture.

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My grandfather was the first prime minister of Iran

after the revolution.

Hi...

[unplugged electric guitar strumming]

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Good morning, sunshine.

When you is sick...

You are.

- Hmm? - When you are.

You is, not are.

When you feel bad, or when you...

When you're... when you are sick, or...

Okay...

Okay.

When you are sick,

I am out control.

Merci.

[gentle acoustic guitar strumming]

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[* Shahin Najafi: "Mammad Nobari"]

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"Mammad Nobari" might piss off a lot of people.

I was like, "They're gonna kill you."

He says, "I don't care."

That's what... that was his answer.

He said, "I don't care."

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Whenever we're apart,

I have nightmares about

him getting attacked or shot.

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But when I'm with him,

I...

I...somehow, I think I can protect him.

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[keys jingling, lock clacking]

[sensual Middle Eastern music playing]

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[* Shahin Najafi: "Mammad Nobari"]

* Ooh, ooh-ooh *

* Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh *

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Okay.