#MustSeeIran, Fall 2013
Instagrams from two weeks in Iran
2 min readMay 8, 2014
My flight landed at Imam Khomeini airport only days before President Rouhani’s speech at the UN General Assembly in New York last September (2013). As a friendly reminder of the prominent role politics plays in greater Iranian society, the long drive into Tehran provided the cab driver with a lengthy interrogation as to how Western, in my particular case Canadian, media portrayed Iranians.
“From Qom, a historic hub for Shia Muslims to borj-e Milad, the towering symbol of a modernizing nation”
A version of the photo piece was originally published at Your Middle East.
