Christmas in Tehran - Photos

BBC News ^ | Saturday, 23 December 2006

[Dudoight]

Explain this to me?

[xrp]

Why aren't the Muslims there rioting, picketing and suing over Christmas displays, like they do in the USA?

[Biscuit85]

This is the Christian neighborhood in East of Tehran

[BW2221]

The ACLU would hardly approve.

[Piquaboy]

This is Tehran, Texas.

[Biscuit85]

lol

[Dudoight]

I am glad they are alive and well! Thanks!

[oyez]

Why aren't the Muslims there rioting, picketing and suing over Christmas displays, like they do in the USA?

Muslims over there don't want to loose that little window to the West. Over here they want to be in our face. . Its ironic that many Iranians want to come to America to be in a free society, while many of the their Muslim brothers and sisters that have made it here want to destroy free society.

[TomGuy]

The ACLU needs to move to Tehran. They could have a field day there.

Tehran has more decorations that many American cities.


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What a shame we've allowed the PC crowd to dictate so many rules based on a minority of complaints.

[Mashood]

Merry Christmas and peace be with you!

[TomGuy]

Its ironic that many Iranians want to come to America to be in a free society, while many of the their Muslim brothers and sisters that have made it here want to destroy free society.

Not only radical Muslims, but most other radical cultures too. They claw their way into America, and then spend much of their time trying to turn their new American neighborhood into the kind of 3rd-world slum they fled from.

[nuconvert]

Bump

Merry Christmas!

[WashingtonSource]

Who would have thunk?

[Major_Risktaker]

Why aren't the Muslims there rioting, picketing and suing over Christmas displays, like they do in the USA?

Over 1,000,000 lawyers need work in the USA and they will sue over anything.

USA TODAY

The number of lawyers in the USA exceeded 1 million for the first time in 2003. And the number of people taking the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) in 2003 is near the record 152,242 set during the last recession, in 1991. The two-year record of 300,020 of 1990-91 stands an equally good chance of falling in 2002-03.

[ElkGroveDan]

Never mind the coal, I hope El Caganer visits Ahamdinejad this Christmas.

[onyx]

BTTT

[Puppage]

More Christmasy than Chappiqua. Lovely.

[knarf]

1. It's the BBC
2. Every picture appears to be two shops on the same street
3. Picture #4 seems to show oaks and maples in a tree infested city area. I don't think they grow in Tehran. Also .. there appears some sort of red, white and blue flag in the upper left portion of the picture ... could be British.
4. Every woman is in western garb.

Conclusion;
This is one of those one-street shopping sections, probably in England, and the photographer stood in front of the two most colorful shops and took pictures from various angles to appear as if this is some kind of bustling metropolis or something (coupled with BBC's assanine attempt to write copy making it appear so .. )
I believe this is nothing more than another peice of incremental propaganda to plant the thought (picture) for England and the world (USA) to not nuke Iran and the Middle East because ... well .... see? ..... they're just like us.

S'cuse me .... I need to puke.

[SolidWood]

There are actually two Tehrans. The rich, modern and educated live mainly in the North and the poor, religious, overcrowded slums are located in the South. I have Persian friends who spent the summer 2005 in Tehran and the North is really no different from any modern western city, except disastrous street traffic and crappy Islamic dress codes. Most people there want the regime to be destroyed and are VERY pro-American! The (overpopulated) south is the horrible hotbed of nutjobs who voted Ahmadinejad.

[Cacique]

Must be a parallel universe.

[Biscuit85]

lol

[jveritas]

The left wing media believes that silly pictures like these are going to change our opinion that Iran is an oppressive islamic terrorist regime and get us convinced that Iran is such a heaven of religious tolerance.

[G-dzilla]

Why, why, why...they're juuusssstttt like USSSSSS (cough, cough, hack, hack)

[SolidWood]

I have to disagree with your assertion.

-Tehran is no desert-city. It is located on a montain-plateu
and has PLENTY of trees.

-Most Iranian women living in the wealthier parts of Tehran (mainly the north) wear Western clothes, with the mandatory headscarve, but always try to show as much hair as possible.

[sionnsar]

ping

[Biscuit85]

Iranian Girls

[sionnsar]

This is Tehran, Texas.

Ah! That explains the Farsi sign in the next to last pic. *\;-)

[Mo1]

Tehran.. as in Iran??

[Mo1]

And they even have a blowup Santa

Go Figure

[SolidWood]

A gallery of Tehran:
http://www.worldisround.com/articles/98910/

There are parts that are Islamist hellholes and parts that are western-oriented and very modern.

I am not denying that the Terrorist Islamic Regime of Iran is our mortal enemy, who needs to be crushed, but the country and it's people are not all our enemies. The Mullahs of course have their base and followers, but one will find easily millions of Iranians who would like to make Bush president of Iran.
Iran is not even a homogenous nation. They consist of dozens of various ethnicities and people.

[knarf]

Well, just shows t' go ya' how little I know.

[radar101]

BECAUSE they are not really Muslims or Arabs.. They were conquored by Islam

The Islamic conquest of Persia (637-651) led to the end of the Sassanid Empire and the eventual decline of the Zoroastrian religion in Persia. However, the achievements of the previous Persian civilizations were not lost, but were to a great extent absorbed by the new Islamic polity.

And they are still pi$$ed about it.

[Wormwood]

There are parts that are Islamist hellholes and parts that are western-oriented and very modern.

Which is why we need to strongly support moderate, educated Muslims in our shared struggle against the fundamentalist Islamists in their own countries.

[Biscuit85]

President Bush is very popular in Iran for his tough stance on the Iranian regime

[Biscuit85]

yep

[SolidWood]

All Iranians, I know ,in the USA voted Republican and I according to some statistic (I think 2004) Iranian-Americans are the ethnicity with the most percentage of Bush/Republican voters.

[Biscuit85]

sure...

[JimRed]

Which is why we need to strongly support moderate, educated Muslims in our shared struggle against the fundamentalist Islamists in their own countries.

The problem with that is because of taquiyah (sp?) it is extremely difficult to discover which are sincere and which are lying to get your guard down.

[Wormwood]

The problem with that is because of taquiyah (sp?) it is extremely difficult to discover which are sincere and which are lying to get your guard down.

Yes, but if the alternative is treating all 2 billion Muslims as the enemy, then we lose.

Trust and cooperation are not as popular as saber-rattling, but they can be more effective in the long term.

[NordP]

Very good question.

[LibreOuMort]

Peace on Earth Good Will to All!
And may 2007 be the year we get it right.

[theymakemesick]

I suspected as much as well. In the picture with the "mini" in it, the shop window has gold lettering, the first letter is an "s". In the picture above the "mini" (2nd from the bottom) is a banner written in english that says "Merry Christmas" and the sign on the shop to the right has a green channel letter sign that looks like english letters as well. The seventh photo (with the inflatable Santa in it) has some boxes stacked by it that aren't lettered in the serpent looking alphabet arabs use. There also looks like a blue neon sign in the shop that is not written in serpent either. The extremely close cropping of the photos and obvious attempt to avoid lettering sure seem to be hiding something, I'm calling bull.

"S'cuse me .... I need to puke."

They've been making me sick for quite a while now.

Merry Christmas

[paristwelve]

Now what has Bush done?
Merry Christmas

[truth_seeker]

"The problem with that is because of taquiyah (sp?) it is extremely difficult to discover which are sincere and which are lying to get your guard down."

I found out about this in 1979.

An Iranian engineer at my work had been "one of us" until his real sentiments came out. For years he told us he favored a constitutional republic for Iran, when the Shah's days ended.

Yet he really favored anything to topple the Shah. And the mullahs pleased him immensely, as well as taking Americans hostage.

He was so seriously disliked, he left in a few weeks. We were all stunned, because he was a well liked person. Went out drinking with us.

But under it was a muslim LIAR.

[LibreOuMort]

Thank you for your enlightened remarks. I was beginning to wonder if I had perhaps stumbled upon and Anti-Iranian thread. After reading a while I was pleasantly surprised to find some serious thinkers among you.

I had the privilege of living in the Northern suburb of Zaferanieh in Tehran in 1973. While our family did not spend Christmas there that year, I lived an openly western lifestyle there. Only a few times was I advised to "cover up" (with traditional chador) while visiting certain parts of the city. Otherwise, Tehran could have been Rome or Florence (Italy) with trees and flowers everywhere. The rose gardens (private and public) left me speechless in awe. The Persians' love of beauty and peace and their characteristic humour captivated me. And, let's not leave out the exquisite food and hospitality! I'd go back for a visit, but for Ahmadinejad.

[theymakemesick]

Jackpot! In picture six from the top (with the family walking toward the camera), the window that the "dad" appears to be looking into has a big gold "SALE" lettered on it. Microsoft picture and fax viewer has a great zoom feature, you can probably download it free from their site, I think it's built into XP. Save the pics to your pc and zoom to your hearts content.

Merry Christmas

[theymakemesick]

There's even a Spongebob Squarepants in picture six, LOL

[FARS]

Please note this article on disinformation and then take a look at Iranian Christmas.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1757796/posts

[FARS]

Please note the source of this is the Persian language page of BBC News, which is even less trustworthy a source than the English language pages