This blog offers a glimpse into the life of an Iranian woman and her honest view on world affairs and issues which concerns her country, Iran. 
Snaps of Tehran, A modern City inside ancient Iran; My homeland
Just bcs i am there, for first day of Ramadan
Waw; Missed You, Tehran
Tehran At Night
Tehan, Daytime
Front of Cinema Qods; Valiasr Square
Iranian Girls, Under Rain
Boys play football, front of Azadi(Freedom) Square
Metro Station
Again Metro Station
Azadi (Freedom) Square
Girl drives motorcycle
More fotos and info about Tehran: Tehran in WikiPedia
September 11, 2007 at 2:24 am
Nice pics Shahrzad:), I like the hills surrounding Tehran.
I can understand that journalists have the rights and this is their profession…but..don’t you think that girl too have rights…might have been good to take her permission.
September 11, 2007 at 6:13 am
Nice pics, Azadi sq looks marvellous. Any significance as to why its called freedom sq? I’m asking because there is one in Egypt too (tahrir sq).
oh Hijab clad women riding motor bikes is an unimaginable image here in UK, though way too common in Indonesia/Malaysia etc., and they ride like nutters too :p
September 11, 2007 at 11:58 am
Lovely photos! I love them. Thanks for sharing, dear.
September 11, 2007 at 12:31 pm
wow, sooo nice photos..
mashaAllah Teheran looks really great. The metro reminds by the one in Cairo, which brings memories…. 
thanks a lot for sharing
September 11, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Beautiful photographs.
September 11, 2007 at 7:41 pm
Happy Ramadan! I think it starts tonight or tomorrow night here.
Nice pictures! I really hope I get to visit Iran one day.
September 11, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Thanks for the post which gave a glimpse of Teheran, your capital city.
September 12, 2007 at 2:59 am
Nice pictures sis.
Intersting place to visit.
September 12, 2007 at 3:07 pm
LOVELY!!! Thanks, I really enjoyed.
And I didnt know that you work for the newspaper. Welcome to the club! I am journalist myself.
One of my good friends is also journalist in Tehran, but as far as I remember that paper was shot last year or so(if they didnt have a have to republish again)
September 12, 2007 at 3:09 pm
zios, I do agree with you, the girl should have been notified, at least.:) well, still it’s a nice surprise!
September 12, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Absolutely beautiful!
*sigh*
Looks on dreamily….
September 14, 2007 at 12:34 am
let’s swap, you come to egypt and I go to tehran
September 14, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Cool pics. Looks like a nice place to visit.
September 15, 2007 at 12:15 pm
zios, Oh yes, Tehran is surronding by Alborz montaions. If the Air pollution let you to see them lol.. You are right about taking foto with permission. But there is a problm for taking permission there. The foto can not be real anymore. And then how i could jump out the taxi and take permission?! Do you have any idea?
Tia, Before revolution in Iran, the square was named as Kingdom square. Maybe that’s why they changed it to Azadi. And then this square is western gate of Tehran, near to Mehrabad international airport, from that airport, Imam Khomeini came into Iran. It can be another reason..
Really Hijab clad women riding motor bikes is not common in Iran too. But every now and then you can see one of them..
Achelois, welcome darling
Leila, Awwwww, i am happy to remind you good memories. Insha’allah there good ones of them in the future.. Smile..
dianarn, Yes, the photographer is pro one..
musicalchef, Happy Ramadan to you too Honey.. Insha’allah one day you will.. Good experiance to explore the middle east..
m anil, Welcome
ummabdurrahman, Thank you.. That’s wonderful to have nice guests like you
Jayron, Ah really you are? waw, I introduce you to Unique. She wants to make a community for journalist muslimahs. Yes Unique?!
Bubbles, Thank you Darling. *Sigh* For i really miss Tehran too..
Unique Muslimah, lol.. Ok Unique, Good deal.. Are you ready? I will be in Egypt tomorrow!
Aliana, Uhum.. It has so many museums too.. I know you will like it..
September 15, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Shahrzad..by taking permission I meant permission to publish it. You can take pictures but to share it with public it is better to take permission. You know in the east it is different and it can create problems for someone specially for girls. It came to my mind so wanted to let you know
December 24, 2007 at 4:15 pm
salam salam salam salam
now i wanna say about Tehran
last year when i came to Tehran, i saw it is more beautiful than even New York based i also visited New York. I have a suggestion to you, sister Shehrazad, that is, a city in here in Azerbaijan, Nakhchivan, i can show it as a member of the list of set of the cleanest cities all over the world. But it’s very amazing that fellas a huge city like Tehran can be one opf the cleanest cities in the world so i think it’s the gift Allah gave to us. In my mind, we Iranians are very well-cultured good stuffs!
December 28, 2007 at 11:41 pm
Salaam Shahrzad Jaan!
With due respect khaahareh aziz, you have mistranslated the name of the tower.
The square and the structure — the tower has an underground museum — were named Shahyaad Arya-Mehr, literally meaning ShahYaad/Remembrance_of_Shah Aray-Mehr/Beloved_of_Arya.
(ArayMehr was one of the titles of the late Shah of Iran.)
The airport is named ‘Mehr-Abad’, meaning literally “Benevolence-Built”, with ‘abad’ having a distinctly civilizational note, specially built urban infra-structure (cf. “Aab”/water) that refers directly to the original source of Iranian/Architecture: The Qanaats of Hakhaamaneshiaan which watered the dry lands of Parsa with the waters from the snow capped “hills” of Zagros Mountain Range.
The tower’s design remains an *impressive* (*bravo* to Mr. Hossein Amanat!) authentically Iranian post-industrial synthesis of Persian (Hakhaamanesh) Monumentalism and (Persian) Muslim Mathematical Sacred Symbolism threads of Iranian Architecture and stands as a reminder of Masterful Iranian Architecture, in direct contrast to the art-less, brain-dead, and entirely borrowed “Western” pilings of dirt and concrete (in the generic consumer-oriented mold that is favored by the “International Community” crowd and neuvo-riche “anti-western revolutionaries” ) that is the new Tehran.
Rather interestingly, one can say that symbolically, the AryaMehr monument represent-s/-ed a counter-thesis to the thesis offered by the rest of the jumbled “abadi” (?) that has sprung around it since ‘79.
Conceptually, and aesthetically, at least, the choice seems pretty clear …
Direct influences:
http://www.iranyellowpages.net/images/About_iran/Tourism/SplendidMonuments2.jpg
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/1/10/180px-Borj-toghrul.jpg
http://eoediary.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/mosque%20iran.JPG
http://www.iranian.com/Arts/2003/August/RK/Images/1.jpg
Indirect influence:
http://www.payvand.com/news/04/oct/persepolis-iran.jpg
/& Salaam
http://www.amanatarchitect.com/shahyad.html
http://www.amanatarchitect.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azadi_Tower
December 29, 2007 at 3:25 am
ُSalam Joubin,
Regarding to your informative comment, i know all stories behind the name of the tower. Yet the name of “Shahyaad Ariyamehr” belongs to before islamic revolution in Iran.
Now as you know name of most streets and squared were changed after revolution. And right now name of the tower is “Azadi Tower” -in the last link of wiki you can see the name- and translation of “Azadi” to english is “Freedom”.
I just mentioned the names since Islamic revolution in Iran.
P.S: Bcs of links, your comment went to awaiting moderation.
December 29, 2007 at 4:10 am
Salaam Sharzad Jaan,
I was referring only to the original name’s translation as “Kingdom square”. You are certainly correct that it was renamed Azadi Square, and that that name literally translates to ‘Freedom Square’ in English, if not practice.
/& Salaam
January 1, 2008 at 5:43 pm
I am so happy I found your blog - I love it!!
I am originally from Germany but left and live now in the US. I’ve been to your beautiful country in 1974 - extensively that is, have seen Tabris, Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, have been guest if the Gashkai-nomads, seen coast of the Caspi Sea, and, last not least, Mashad in the very north-east!
Thanks so much for those wonderful pictures … they bring back memories! I saw the “Shahjad” (back then that was the name) monument from inside, admired the exceptional architecture and museum it hosts … I never forgot about it!
I don’t remember a metro … that must have been built more recently!
I’d be happy to hear from you! May I invite you to my blog?
To you and your loved ones a HAPPY, HEALTHY and BLESSED 2008!
January 2, 2008 at 12:13 am
Karin, Am so happy to see you here. It was very nice for me that how these fotos remind you of good days. Keep visiting my blog. You will like it
January 11, 2008 at 9:59 am
beautiful country indeed!
Long live Iran!
January 11, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Thank you Mystic Saint
January 16, 2008 at 11:28 pm
loooooooool i neva knew women can ride motor bikes in the roads aswell
hahahah watch wen i go iran this summer
February 20, 2008 at 11:26 pm
how old is Azadi Square, mind giving a lil info on this ?
February 20, 2008 at 11:38 pm
aAmMar, Here is the page for Azadi(freedom) square in Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azadi_Tower
Also you can check Joubin Hoshyar’s comment here. He gave good sources anout history of Azadi Square.
February 24, 2008 at 11:38 am
Teheran city is…
Baldatun thayyibatun wa rabbun gafur
March 10, 2008 at 10:43 am
Shahrzad
man ino farsi minevisam, in kheyly jalebe ke in aksaye ziba ro gozashti va ta hodoodi az tasvire badi ke kharejiha too zehneshoon darand ke ma ba shotor mosaferat mikonim ro pak mikone, vali nabayad khodemoon ro gool bezanim , vaghti metroye tehran ke hatta nemitooni nafas bekeshi va har vaght savar mishi margo joloye cheshmat mibini , gozashtane in aksa reality nist. ya meidoone azadi ke patoghe zanaye khiabooni va mootadast! shahre ma kheyly zesht tar in aksast.
March 12, 2008 at 9:41 am
O, I am neither a terrorist nor a wife beater, I don’t live in a tent and in
desert and camels are not our ways of transportation.
I speak Farsi, not Arabic.
Iran is pronounced “EERAUN” and not “I - ran” (it’s not track & field)
News flash: Iran and Iraq are two different countries; Middle East is a
region and NOT a continent.
Belly dancers are NOT strippers (there is no sex in the Champaign room);
Anyway, belly dancing is an Arabic dance, it never came from Iran .
Each time you play a game of chess to improve your intellect, keep in
mind that it was Persians who gave you your game.
Iranian women are just as outspoken (if not more) and liberal as the
European (western) women.
And what the hell is “soccer”?? We also call it Football like every one else
in the word (except Americans).
Iran is the first country on earth to have a lion (male) and a sun
(female) for its symbol; and the colors red, white, and green for a
flag.
A beautiful country run by the wrong people, but still is the best part of
Middle East .
Allow me to introduce myself:
I’M A PERSIAN. MY LAND IS IRAN !
March 14, 2008 at 7:08 pm
salam sherazad
I really like your site. It is very revealing. I hope to visit theran sometime next year inshallah. It was one of my father’s wishes as well and I hope I can live up to it.
Thanks again
Dr Hasan Salam Khan (Pakistan)
June 2, 2008 at 9:58 pm
jaleb bood.ghashang niz !
June 10, 2008 at 2:53 pm
I LOVE IRAN
June 13, 2008 at 8:06 am
Yes, I was not there in Tehran but I can say its very beautiful since they’re Muslims and I believe that all Muslims are rich people. In other side, they wash themselves, they have a delicious foods…actually PERSIAN foods…and they’re very clean(MUSLIMS)…I am not muslim but I really love this religion…I know Persian language also…Mardome Irani kheili bahushan vaghe-an. Doost pesare khodam dige…Kholasse man doost daram az shoma Irani ha hamechi yaad begiram…chon vaghe-an kheili bahushid…Thanks, Kati.
July 7, 2008 at 3:23 pm
OH ……REALLY TEHRAAN IS SO BEAUTIFULL I LIKED THE CITY VERY MUCH….THIS CITY AGAINST OF MY THAUGHTS WHICH I HAD GATHERED FROM THE MEDIA NEWS….ITS AS BEAUTIFULL AS MY COUNTRY INDIA ……… I LOVE TEHRAAN…..MAY GOD BLESS THIS CITY……..I WUD LOVE TO VISIT THIS CITY ONE DAY……… AMIT(NEW DELHI, INDIA)
July 17, 2008 at 7:46 am
It’s so nice!!! Congratulations for your beautiful city. Looks like safe and well treated. I hope one day share with your people some days of great hapiness. Antonio from Brazil
July 22, 2008 at 5:34 pm
yey my hometown !! i miss tehran!! its been a year.
this pics made my homesickness allbetter thank you for posting them and visiting our country!!!!
July 28, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Beautiful photos. Thank you for sharing. I’ve always wanted to visit Iran. Warm wishes from the U.S.
August 2, 2008 at 1:48 pm
very fun thank you
ممنون مرسي تصاوير جالبي بود
August 16, 2008 at 7:26 am
Thanks 4 UR nice photoes.But it seem`s that, informations are mostly gathered by individual experiences rather than statistic or evidences.Anyway thank you
August 19, 2008 at 5:33 am
hi there
that was a really great picture from real tehran, i missed alot, i hope i could see tehran again,
August 21, 2008 at 4:28 am
You made my day… I never knew I had missed it so much, it brought a pile of wonderful memories from the past… Thank you soooooo much.
September 25, 2008 at 2:35 am
Wooooow
great photos!
I missed Tehran a lot,but I cann’t go back there!!I am like dying!!!these photos remind me of my wonderfull memories in Tehran,oh God
Thanks for sharing