Tehran, Iran – – While preparing me to take a picture of an anti -American mural out of The former United States Embassy In the capital of Iran recently, a passerby called me.
“Take any photo you like, they will eliminate them all later,” said the man.
It was a revealing moment since the murals have long been a characteristic of the United States Embassy Complex, which has been celebrated and directed by the Iran Paramilitary Revolutionary Guard as a cultural center since then since then since then since then The hostage crisis led by 1979 students There they destroyed the ties between Iran and the United States. Today, Iran is talking to the United States about a possible diplomatic agreement on its nuclear program And the idea of ties between the West and the outside world again seems possible, although difficult.
The thing about taking photos and working as a photojournalist in Tehran, my hometown, is that the Iranians will approach you on the street and tell you what they think. And sometimes, even when they will not say something out loud, I will see it in the images I capture.
That is particularly true with the gradual change we have seen in how women dress, whether in the old corridors of the Gran Bazaar de Tehran or in the streets of Northern Tehran. Women are renouncing the mandatory hijabOr head scarf, even when hard funds try to press a renewed application of the law against what they call “Western cultural invasion.”
The reformist government President Masoud fishshkian Meanwhile, he has been urging the restriction of the police and others on the Hijab. There are enough problems at this time in Iran, his thought is his thought, particularly because Iran’s economy remains in a terrible narrow.
US sanctions have decimated it. Iran’s rial currency has collapsed in recent years. That economic difficulty has caused people to distrust the country’s theocracy.
And so, people continue their daily lives in Tehran while waiting for any news after five rounds of conversations until Iran and the United States can see it in my photos. A carpet seller hopes to sell their products in a dark bazaar corner. Women without children smoke shisha, or water pipe tobacco. Another woman, with a totally black chador and that covers it, prays in the courtyard of a mosque.
Everything may seem contradictory, but that is life here. Tehran, the home of about 10 million people, is the heart that beats in constant growth of Iran. And while waiting for the results of the negotiations, it may seem that it is omitting rhythms in advance.
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