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My grandmother reading prayers for her mother at "Behesht-e Zahra" (Zahra's Paradise) - Tehran's main graveyard.
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some of the nicest roses I've ever seen. Nashtarud, Caspian Sea Coast.
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brothers Ali (left), Akbar (centre) and Mohammad Ali (right) paying respects to their mother, my great grandmother, at "Behesht-e Zahra" (Zahra's Paradise) - Tehran's main graveyard.
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an old street hawker sellign "fal" - single poems taken from the Divan-e Hafez which are said to predict the future.
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Music and song from the tragic reenactment of the martyrdom of Imam Hossein.
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some of the nicest roses I've ever seen. Nashtarud, Caspian Sea Coast.
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Rally to mark 22 Bahman (11 February) - the anniversary of Iran's 1979 Revolution.
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Just a few kilometres east was a place locals call the "Mountains of Mars." You can't see it well here but the limestone (i think) mountains have been carved by wind and rain into eerie columns and deeply rutted walls. Hardly a single dry desert shrub for…