An American cyclist who trapped in Iran speaks of the tense run as Israel’s “bomb”

In February, the 32-year-old American created a champagne glass on the Atlantic coast of Portugal Ian Andersen He set out to fulfill the dream of cycling on all seven continents of the world. He plans to last 10 months in 10 months, covering about 10,000 miles to reach the final point of Japan.

But he did not plan Israel to start a war against Iran.

Andersen was full of excitement and anxiety when entering Iran on June 1.

“I was very annoying. I looked like it, and now we are now entering a little unchanged area here,” he said. “But I immediately relaxed with so much positive experience than the people I met on the road … and hospitality, generosity.”

He said that he said that the kind, interesting Iranians, who invited him to the tea or trying to pay for food in a restaurant.

On June 13, when Israel began to bomb Iran’s nuclear and military.

“No external hostility, but I read people’s body language and facial expressions,” Andersen said. “And I knew I knew I was a little danger because people were closing Israel and the United States at this point, because the bombs fell and missiles.”

He and his local Iranian guide Rza, in 45 miles north of Tehran, in a village north of Harijan in a living room in a living room decided to Hunker.

Rza, who said Andersen would be a friend, advised him to say that he was American and not talking to people if possible. However, he said he discovered the nationality of some local travelers who joined them in the hotel.

“They were not happy because he had to share a hotel with an American ‘American’,” Andersen said.

On June 15, Andersen heard that an Israeli bomb exploded at a distance. On the same day, the US State Department advised the Americans to leave Iran in Iran, received an email from the US State Department. He decided to reach his best bet, eight-hour driver around the Caspian Sea, around the Caspian Sea.

He and Reza quickly led to a continuous flow of heavy traffic, because inhabitants left Tehran. They passed gas stations with long cars and many military checkpoints.

“It was a pretty mill,” he said. “Maybe the idea of ​​pulling in one of the military control points.”

“Rza, my guide, I can’t protect me anymore and really my guide, it is my guide.

Andersen said, “As we get closer,” and as a result, Iran did it without the event on the border of Iran with Azerbaijan.

However, the most nervous shaking of this last day, not twice by Iranian officials, not twice by Iranian officials and then by the Iranian revolutionary protective corps.

For the second interview, he was removed from the crowd and then taken to the back room of a storage cabinet in an army barracks.

“I received 50-50 chances to accept, ‘okay, or a bargaining chip.” In fact, the interview was less than a minute. ”

“I came back to the night to get my bike and then I really entered Azerbaijan and I called me. But I could not enter Azerbaijan.”

Previously cleared Iran’s Internet firewall, before viewing the first hotel, he was able to send a message to us before looking at the first hotel, and then relaxed 12 hours before bedtime.

Now as the Israeli-Iranian conflict is dragged, Andersen said he thought that he had a lot about the possible Spillover effect for everyone living and traveling abroad.

He said he celebrated the travel route with the United States State Department’s Step ProgramThe country based on a traveler’s actions sends a notice and updates. He knew how he had happened to Azerbaijan, and he calls on all Americans to travel abroad.

Andersen did not manage, not for the Iranian leadership. He still hopes to collect money for Rza and his family in Iran.

It also intends to continue to cycling Japan to make the dream of all the continents of the world.