This week was the birthday of singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain of Nirvana. He would have been 45. In 1991, Nirvana came out with the smash hit album Nevermind that sold more than 24 million copies and Cobain became the very reluctant poster child of Generation X. Cobain committed suicide on April 5, 1994.

As tensions escalate between Iran and the United States, what can people intimate with Iran tell us about a country that remains mysterious to many Americans?