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Some call it the moving underground bazaar, some other wield it as a secondary way (after Snapp and hailing a cab in general) to get to any corner of Tehran, for others, it’s just a hectic experience with a lot of unpleasant smells, and some people can’t imagine a day when one of the metro trains in Tehran stops working.
Continue readingEvery time I went down to our storage room back in my childhood days to get everything, I had to go through my father’s old-ass ski equipment gathering dirt just standing there, if not rusting away. He kept them for so long it felt like a lifetime, but he would never use them, claiming he was too old to use them, but they were too dear to let go. The mere sight of the ski equipment got my head rolling every time; how would it feel to put them on and give it a shot? Where are the best ski resorts in Iran, close to my home, where I could try those rusty little ski poles and worn-off shoes on and make a complete fool of myself since I knew nothing about skiing and the gear would probably get me injured seriously?
Continue readingMore than two years ago, I left my motherland France to visit Iran for the first time. Today, in January 2020, I’m writing to you from Tehran, where I live, to answer a question I thought belongs to the past: “Is Iran safe?”
These are not easy lines to write. At the start of 2020, Iran is in grief, crying the loss of hundreds of people, mostly Iranians, in the crash of the Ukraine International flight. We are all, whatever our nationality, impacted in our lives by the tragedies Iran has lived for the past year: from economic crisis to the fear of conflict between the US and Iran.
Continue readingThe real gyms of Shiraz, in my opinion, are its extremely happy and hospital people who care more about having fun than working (just my type of people), endless number of famous Persian Gardens which beset this green-life-invaded city, mouth-watering exquisite Persian cousins and salads like the famous Shirazi Salad, luxuriously-beautiful women and prestigious men, and to-die-for delicious traditional Persian deserts and sweets like the well-known Halva Kasih (yellow dens sweet) and Masghati Shirazi (also another kind of conventional sweet).
Continue readingAlthough relatively bumpy, a little long in the tooth, and not praised much by some news media in the past, Iran’s national airline and its collection of airliners do their job pretty well and pave the way for millions of passengers up in the skies daily, and have done so for many years now! And yes, you might hear one or two plane crashes pop here and there in the news, but that those are always due to many possible complications, and lessons learned by the well-respected and much-praised Iranian captains. To this day, millions of people use the national aircrafts to travel the country without any fear of accidents, and still believe that Iranian airliners and planes are the best way to reach different points in the country.
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