IRAN

Deception Chieh Samad Agha?

Enjoy the beautiful pictures and forget the politics. If tourist spots look empty it's because we have million of them in Iran. So economy is bad and some retard may attack us. What do you want us to do? print pictures of children looking with fear at the sky?
Screw them, let them attack us, we'll rebuild bigger, prettier and better than before. And if tourists can't enjoy all of that history, it's their loss not ours.

Re: Deception

Your argument can be said about tourist pictures from any where in the world, not just Iran. Aren't tourist pictures from the US deceptive? They do not reflect of what life in US is like.

Great pictures!

The glass is half full (and not half empty)! Great pictures, and God Bless (whichever God you believe in).

Deception

Pictures like these do indeed bring back memories. However it is deceptive in the sense that it is an inaccurate reflection of what life in Iran is like. The fact that these major tourist spots were practically empty speaks volumes to that the average Iranian could never ever enjoy these sights. They're too busy trying to make ends meet. I wish for once someone coming back from Iran, would take pictures of the people on the street and people engaged in their daily activities. Something that would more accurately reflect what life in Iran is like for those living there. Our country is on the verge of bankruptcy and imminent war, tourist snapshots are not what we need.

Damet garm Behrang jan.

Great pictures! We're proud of you! ;-)

Damavand

This pictures are so beautiful and it has a lot of memory . I wish I could go back someday and see these places . I havent been in Iran Since 1975. God I do miss it . I am hoping to go back soon.

Long Live Iran

Kourosh

Thank you!

Thank you all for your encouraging words.

Kourosh…yeah, you are right on the point, that was an exact same
thing that came to my mind when I saw that sign and took that photo.

Cyrus…khahesh mikonam, hope you enjoy them. All these photos
are from historical sites in Kashan and Esfehan. Well known places like Meydane
emam (shah), 33 pol, 40 soton, Baghe Fin and few Damavand pics were taken near
the village of AbeAsk.

Del…you
are welcome. I am glad to hear that.

Farrad…thanks for catching the typo …I told administrator to
fix it, I said I am a geographer not an
English major…

Meu…hum…what can I say…I think you got issues…

DF…thank you for encouraging words. I don’t take crazies too
seriously ;)

Nazy… replaced or not, I also think Sohrab is smiling about
it …

Thank you all again for taking a time to view my photos….

Thank You

Dear Behrang:

Thank you for sharing your beautiful pictures and the sweet memories of your trip with me. They are great.

A few years ago, the Emamzadeh in Mashad Ardehal near Kashan, where Sohrab Sepehri is buried was going through a renovation. As a part of the renovation, the plan was to move Sohrab’s grave from where it was to another spot in the graveyard. As you may know, in Iran and amongst Moslems, exhuming a dead body from the grave is considered a deep insult to the dead. There was a huge social uproar and the plans were changed to exclude the removal. The reconstruction and renovation efforts went on at the Emamzadeh. One day a truck backed onto Sohrab’s grave, and broke the tombstone. This was so ironic, considering on his tombstone, verses of one of his poems say:

If you come to visit me,
Come softly and quietly,
Lest the thin china of my solitude
Is cracked.

I wonder whether that tombstone was replaced and the new one is now also cracked, or this is the original tombstone. Either way, I think Sohrab would not be insulted by the irony. I think he is smiling about it, the optimistic, happy poet of our times. Thanks again for showing us Iran through your eyes.

Loved the pix

Don't pay any attention to these crazies with their comments.
Loved the pix.
Best of luck for the future!

I am sorry, but this guy

I am sorry, but this guy look like a freak and mentaly disturbed. good face for halloween movie

You am is, your writing needs editing!

You am is, your writing needs editing, Mr. Iranian American joghrapher!

beautiful pictures,lots of

beautiful pictures,lots of memories came back to me.
Thanks Behrang.

tozih kootah lazeme

Behrang aziz;

merci bara axaye ghashangi ke ferestadi. ageh emkan dareh ye tozihe kootah ke in axa as koja gerefte shodeh, mamnoon

No. 6 has lots of buck

No. 6 has lots of buck shot!!! No different than any no hunting signs in the State that get shot to shit!!!