60ansdevadrouille:

Ispahan - Mosquée du Roi, iwan E et accès à medersa Est. 1968.

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My mother is the best cook in the world. 

Iranian food is the best food in the world. 

farsizaban:

Students of a Religious School in Iran Playing Volleyball

badesaba:

A Tehran Art University student looks at a painting by 20th century U.S. artist Jackson Pollock at Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Art on June 19, 2010.

Artists like Monet, Picasso and Warhol’s works not much appreciated by the leaders of Iran’s Islamic revolution were kept out of view for decades. Now, one of the greatest collections of contemporary Western art — put together under a Western-leaning monarchy in pre-revolutionary Iran — is open to the public, with some works on display for the first time in more than 30 years.

Morteza Nikoubazl / Reuters 

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obliquecity:

A ballot from Iran’s Parliamentary election on March 2nd, 2012 that reads: “Death to this rotten regime that forces me to vote for a stamp in my ID card!”

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israelfacts:

Professional Torah restorer Mehrdad Sassany works on the restoration of a 100 to 120-year-old Torah, first hand written in Baghdad on cow leather, at Iran’s Jewish Association in Tehran, March 1, 2012. Iran’s 25,000 strong Jewish community is represented by one member of parliament as guaranteed by the constitution. The country’s parliamentary elections will take place on Friday. (Reuters)

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My people are truly, peace-loving people.

off-the-wall-b:

Making carpets in Iran

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 singer Googoosh, 1970’s.

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