Given the current conflict, fans of Anthony Bourdain's 'Parts Unknown' have been speculating online that this is why the docu-series' Iran-set episode is not available to stream on Hulu
, host Anthony Bourdain visited Iran, a country where the late TV personality and chef once said he witnessed an extreme disconnect "between what one sees and feels from the people and what one sees and hears from the government."
Now, six years later in 2020, Iran's government is in contention with President Donald Trump's administration after the White House took responsibility for killing Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani. Given the current conflict, fans ofhave been speculating online that this is why the docu-series' Iran-set episode is not available to stream on Hulu., a Hulu spokesperson explained that is not the case.
"This is not a black-and-white world, as much as people would like to portray it as such. That's not an apology for anything. I'm just saying that the brief, narrow slice of Iran we give you in this episode of Parts Unknown is only one part of a much deeper, multihued, very old and very complicated story," Bourdain wrote at the time. "Like anything as ancient and as beautiful as the Persian Empire, it's worth, I think, looking further.
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