After what was another immense gathering of silent Tehranis – draped in black on this occasion – I made my way back to Vanak to get out of town. Having popped in a shopping complex for a few minutes, I...
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A friend of mine, Siavash Mousavizadeh wrote this and asked me to post it as a summary of the last few days: "Just keep walking and don't", came a voice to my left. I was already in a state of shock but hearing...
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"Ahmadi, bye-bye, Ahmadi bye-bye", come the chants from the Green Army, shooting out peace signs with their fingers to any fellow green-clad passers-by. They may also use, "death to the dictator", or simply, "don't...
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Somehow I managed to miss the enormous queues at 11.30pm tonight while traveling home. People were queue to fill up anything available before the fuel rationing comes fully on board here in Iran.The noise from...
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"So what has been the Iranian response to the 15-navy personnel arrested yesterday?", she asked as I sat in a coffee struggling to hear through the chatter and poor mobile reception. "I'm not sure I'd like to speak on behalf of the Iranians but I've not really heard it...
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"Watch out for those Christian Fundamentalists on the flight!", popped up the warning message on my screen hour before I was to embark on my winter break to Dubai. "Don't worry, I can spot them a mile off" I...
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"How did it feel to have voted then?", I asked a friend as we left the
small school tucked away from one of Tehran's main roads. "Like having
done my duty, painful though it was", she responds. "Yes, it is...
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"Pull your headscarf up", a friend finally points out to the lady on my right at the restaurant table. Relief washed over me, yet not due to the halting of impure thoughts that were obviously tunneling through my...
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"Shall we go for another plate and try one of the duck spring-rolls or save ourselves for the deserts?", we toiled while sat in one of the finer skyscrapers on Dubai's Shayk Zayad Road. The international...
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"Maybe it's because of my two Russian girlfriends", answers the company director in response to my poor flattery regarding his more European accent. "Yes, that might be it", I hastily added. It was only after his...
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Tehran is blessed with clusters of coffee shops offering havens for Iran's expanding youth. These mutual grounds – away from the prying eye of the family – flood with hormones, allowing for the decreasingly...
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"How was it?", enquired the carpenter as we exited the sports-hall-cum-auditorium. I held my words, partly to convey a more digestible response but also as I was still digesting the scenes we'd witnessed. "It...
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I was invited once again to be part of the BBC's Viewers' Panel. Here is my answer. Find the question below."Tone down on the religion and politics", I am warned by my family. "But my writing doesn't concern these...
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"Iranian men are liars, don't trust them!", they repeat. "Iranian women are liars, don't trust them!", they remind me.
Iranian parents and close family have two types of advice for their children regarding...
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"So what's the itinerary?", I ask my father the night before we were to head off. "We're going to rest, then get up then pick up my brothers in the morning" came the response. "And then what?", I enquired. "Then...
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Truemors
Day 5, Iran on the streets