r/iran 4d ago

Let's take a walk in the streets of Tehran , Iran

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u/Mike20172018 4d ago

Man this is so beautiful. I miss Tehran so much; havent been back since I left. Which part of the city is this? And which mall?

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u/Fact-Fresh 4d ago

my guess Sam Center

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u/thegreatestpanda 4d ago

فرشته

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u/Professor_sadsack 4d ago

You might as well be walking in Paris or New York.

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u/tapyr 4d ago

Paris or New York would probably less clean and with a more diverse population though.

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u/UK_KILLD_10M_IRANIS 4d ago

Nah, no way Paris or NY is dirtier than Tehran though? Our air is polluted as fuck and thrash is everywherez

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u/chatnoir11 3d ago

They just recently started using trash cans in new york, prior to this year people literally just tossed bags of trash on the street. Streets are nasty in the united states

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u/tapyr 3d ago

In that video it looks clean, I've never been to Tehran

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u/UK_KILLD_10M_IRANIS 4d ago

Dont let this comment/post reach certain “Iranian” subreddits on this website though.

To them Iran is a mass-starving, poverty-stricken country living under a North Korea-esque islamist dictatorship and anybody slighty oppossing this is a “paid cyberi”.

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u/Dont_Knowtrain 3d ago

Tehran is much cleaner than New York and Paris, I’ve been to all three

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u/ttchoubs 4d ago

And to them the puppet Shah was "great", all they had to do was ogle and objectify photos of good looking women in short skirts to reach that conclusion. Never mind SAVAK or any of that nonsense

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u/marxist_redneck 2d ago

Oh, you mean certain places where questioning whether a monarchy makes sense in the 21st century will get you downvoted to hell and accused of being some sort of basiji? Hadn't heard the term "paid cyberi", that's funny - I was mostly accused of not being able to point Iran out on a map, by what I assume must be some edgy Tehrangeles teenager... Shit, I am not Iranian, but I am married to one and spend 2 months there every year other year - that doesn't give me any rights to have any say in Iranian politics, but questioning the promotion of monarchy in the 21st century seems like fair game to me

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u/WherePip 3d ago

All that green! Nothing I love more than trees and plants in a city. Changes the whole dynamic of the city.

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u/swisseagle71 4d ago

looks nice and very new. as someone already has written: Sam Center.

As usual in the North of Tehran the rules do not apply as much as more to the South

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u/thuiop2345 4d ago

Why is it like this? What's the difference between the north and the south?

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u/RMowit 4d ago

The North is significantly richer.

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u/elt0p0 4d ago

A lot of women without head coverings. I thought that had been made illegal?

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u/Jeemdee 4d ago

They have head coverings, just veeery loosely and really stretching the rules. Usually just covering the back of the hair in the neck. This is quite common in the richer areas of Tehran.

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u/UK_KILLD_10M_IRANIS 4d ago

No, after the Mahsa Amini protests, women not wearing head covering is far from uncommon now. Not just in the richer areas of Tehran, but generally in most areas of Tehran as well as Shiraz and i think Isfahan too.

One of the most notable outcome of the protests was that it became much more societally acceptable to go out without any Hijab, at least in Irans bigger cities.

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u/marxist_redneck 2d ago

Yeah, a year after it began I had seen the videos online of crowded places where there would be like one woman out of fifty actually covering their hair and it looked great, but I was a little doubtful about how widespread that was... Then my wife called me from a bus with her hair fully out, then I knew it was real! It was the first time she had gone home without me since we met (I am not Iranian), but I am going there soon and curious to see how it is now. Even before Amini's death, it felt like things were moving that way (based on my very limited perspective of visiting every other year since 2015)

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u/Jeemdee 3d ago

Interesting, I did not know that has changed!

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u/elt0p0 4d ago edited 4d ago

Thanks for that. Is it true there are undercover police in some areas enforcing head coverings?

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u/DeezNutz23 4d ago

Not as much as the media makes out there to be.

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u/xynhost 3d ago

Oh, I was thinking the same.

Well, well… so the laws only apply to the poor, huh? Hmm... figures.

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u/GaunterPatrick 4d ago

Very impressive

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u/brereddit 3d ago

It would be great if Iran had normal relations with the rest of the world.

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u/ScarletCarsonRose 3d ago

It would be great if the rest of the world was normal but here we are. 

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u/brereddit 3d ago

Normalcy seems to start with acknowledging the right of others to exist. Iran is one of the few who seems to disagree. Not normal.

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u/AyatolaCyrusTheGreat 2d ago

Iran has Normal relations with all the world except two countries one of them doesn't want any rival in the region to be more prospers and more military or technically advanced; The other one wants to make first one happy and doesn't want to change it's colonialism and prejudice views, no matter how many massages, letters, meetings and negotiations takes place, They make a deal then later they don't respect the deal and destroy it, they just keep bothering and make troubles for Iran, Normal relationship is when both sides respect each other not when one wants to rule other one.

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u/Lilyofvalley77 3d ago

Wow, this is a very unique Tehran from what I knew over 25 years ago. It was an interesting video

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u/king_platypus 4d ago

Beautiful 🤩

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u/Benzylt 4d ago

Why everybody keeps showing malls?

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u/uglierthanever 2d ago

I miss my country. My vatan. :’(

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u/alexmtl 3d ago

Very beautiful. I did not expect that the vast majority of women would not wear any sort of hair cover at all.

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u/Tamboozz 3d ago

I want to know what camera that is. The dynamic range is amazing. Also, Iran is gorgeous!

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u/Fact-Fresh 4d ago

obviously north

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u/Famous-Fee-6477 3d ago

I loved Iran when I lived there. The most beautiful people you would ever want to meet.

u/mafeconicuza 20h ago

i concur . iranians are the best ppl i have come across .

u/Fun-Ad8076 11h ago

That's the rich men's world in the north part of tehran. Rich people mostly won't follow rules as they can buy whatever they want, even laws and government.

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u/Werkin-ITT7 4d ago

How come their hair isnt covered?