 Filmed in Italy (filling in for Washington, D.C.) and Ghazali Cinematic Mini-City in 1982, "Haji Washington" was not publicly screened in Iran until 1998.The film's music is by the late Persian classical musician Mohammad Reza Lotfi.A fictionalized account of the first Iranian ambassador in the United States, Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori, a loyal Qajar statesman who goes to Washington to found the embassy.