When they came to Iran last fall to scout locations, Gardner and his wife, Char, 53, an assistant producer on the $ 1.5 million project, were struck by the fact that filming costs in Iran, lowered by the Iranian rial's steep devaluation against the dollar since 1979, were lower than in Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Israel and Turkey, other countries they considered.
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When they came to Iran last fall to scout locations, Gardner and his wife, Char, 53, an assistant producer on the $ 1 . 5 million project, were struck by the fact that filming costs in Iran, lowered by the Iranian rial's steep devaluation against the dollar since 1979, were lower than in Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Israel and Turkey, other countries they considered.
