NOTE: This is a two-way road, not one-way, with actual Iranian drivers, presumably not just released from sanitarium, on the Feerouz-kooh road toward Tehran.

How many driving laws can be broken simultaneously? These brave Iranian drivers take the challenge.

A is a truck going its merry way uphill a two-lane highway, but not fast enough for the drivers behind it.

B sees an opening on the right side; it's the shoulder but in light of what's transpiring nearby, he'd qualify for a smartest-driver-of-the-year award.

C is passing A on the left, but not to be left outdone, D is passing to the left of C, spilling into the left shoulder.

E and F say, “If they can do it, why can’t we?” They line up behind C and D’s suicidal positions, having absolutely no idea what coming from the other side.

Here's what happens moments later:

Oops. Nearly got run over by a 10-ton truck. Oh, well; there’s always tomorrow to try to meet my maker.

Note: C, the only party that was not breaking any laws does not get past the obstacle.

Like a friend said, "People are conditioned to think that they have to be crazier, wilder, more daring than the next guy to get ahead.

"Maybe it was the [Iran-Iraq] war; all that jon-bauz stuff, all the carnage people saw. Maybe it's all the economic pressure, the poverty, the inability to express themselves, the daily grind of trying and trying and never ever getting ahead.

"But something in the Iranian psyche has changed. We're crazier, we're on the edge. We're willing to do anything now."