This is interesting. The US and Iran can insult each other as much as they want but in general their people get on well together. 
Look at this guy in Saba battery shirt. I wonder whether he has met Saba's most famous athlete
Insults bounce back and forth between Iran and the United States on an almost daily basis but on the basketball court it is a different story.
A growing number of Americans are now plying their trade in the Iranian basketball league.
Saba Battery - a local Iranian basketball team - is having its first practice session in a gym in Tehran with the new player from America.
He is a staggering 225cm (7ft) tall - a giant by Iranian standards.
"We both have different cultures, different religious so if we respect that we will get along very fine," Garth Joseph says.
He regards himself as an ambassador for his country which has not had diplomatic relations with Iran since the revolution.
"I hope they start relations. I was surprised to see we don't have an embassy here or Iran one in America; I thought what's going on," says Garth.
When Pegah Hamadan took on Saba Battery four Americans played
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/4445030.stm
Look at this guy in Saba battery shirt. I wonder whether he has met Saba's most famous athlete
Insults bounce back and forth between Iran and the United States on an almost daily basis but on the basketball court it is a different story.
A growing number of Americans are now plying their trade in the Iranian basketball league.
Saba Battery - a local Iranian basketball team - is having its first practice session in a gym in Tehran with the new player from America.
He is a staggering 225cm (7ft) tall - a giant by Iranian standards.
"We both have different cultures, different religious so if we respect that we will get along very fine," Garth Joseph says.
He regards himself as an ambassador for his country which has not had diplomatic relations with Iran since the revolution.
"I hope they start relations. I was surprised to see we don't have an embassy here or Iran one in America; I thought what's going on," says Garth.
When Pegah Hamadan took on Saba Battery four Americans played
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/4445030.stm
but it is great to see American players there though.
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