At a time when talk of a military strike
against Iran looms ever larger, it's often
easy to lose sight of the fact that Iran is one of the most visually stunning
countries in the world....
Having just returned from a memorable one-week trip
around Iran, during the Ashura festival, I wanted to send all of you on this
list a few samples of this country and temporarily lighten the political fare
that I'm usually serving up...
An old man in Bandar Abbas, southern
Iran
A
rare blue-eyed Turkmen horse close to Gonbad-e
Qavvus
Iran.December 221: A man and his weight-scale in Hamedan’s
central square
A
little child affected by the Sirjan earthquake peeks out of the
emergency
tents offered to the victims
by the Red Crescent
A
woman looks at a photo exhibition in Tehran’s Khane Hunarmandan
At
Tabriz’s central bazaar,
portraits of Imam Ali rub shoulders with more
earthly pleasures.
Two
Kurdish women wait for their darvish
husbands outside a khaneqah
close
to Kermanshah, western Iran
A
man smokes a cigarette at the Kermanshah bazaar, western
Iran
The inheritor of an aristocratic house
in Marivan
Two
Kurds, victims of Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapns bombardments,
at a
conference in Marivan, western Iran
A
Kurdish darvish makes a point to his
friends during a break in the zikr
A
group of asheqs perform in a private
house in Tabriz
Worshippers led by Father
Methodios celebrate Easter at Tehran’s
Greek Orthodox
Church
Female
members of Tehran’s orchestra practice ahead of a tour
of
Germany in the
summer of 2005
A
Shah-era memento: A vintage Cadillac
parked in front of a Russian-built
house
in Rasht, on the Caspian
Sea
A
supporter of reformist candidate Mustafa Moein at his rally in May
2005
The
third generation: Two young men at a reformist political rally sport
an
Iranian flag and a Metallica T-shirt
An
Iranian woman in a village outside Yazd
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