Every Day in Iran

Think of Iran, and images of oppression and executions, a downcast people and rugged mountains or dry deserts immediately spring to mind.

But a group of passionate Iranians have captured stunning images of their day-to-day lives – with some truly eye-opening insights into a country which people in the West associate with a religious dictatorship, watching their every move with an iron rod held aloft and ready to strike at any infraction.

Indeed, even Ali Kaveh, one of the founders of EverydayIran, claims he has found himself surprised at the pictures emerging from his home country.

Relaxed: Friends sit together in Tehran. Their brightly coloured, modern clothes go against western images of the Islamic Republic

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‘That’s one of the pictures that surprised me,’ admitted Kaveh. ‘It was very very interesting – I didn’t know these kind of customs happened in Iran.’

The 26-year-old and two friends were inspired to start the project after seeing EverydayAfrica, which saw photographers from around the continent uploading snapshots of their day.

But they decided they could narrow the area, and focus just on Iran – a country which has become synonymous with the revolution of 1979, the threat of nuclear war and women covered head to toe in the black ‘chador’.

Headlines around the world focus on the continuing hostilities with Israel. Just last week, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei apparently published a 416-page guide to destroying the Jewish state – and its tensions with America following the 1979 hostage crisis, which saw 52 Americans being held in the embassy for 444 days.

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