Posted on 05/07/2015 10:13:00 AM PDT by Cecily
With their cool check shirts, low slung jeans and hair coaxed carefully upwards, this group of young men wouldn't look out of place in London's hipster mecca of Shoreditch.
Instead, all of these twenty-somethings live in Iranian capital, Tehran where plucked eyebrows and gelled hair are considered 'satanic' and getting a tattoo means risking arrest.
The striking new photos are the work of French photographer Eric Lafforgue who says, despite the best efforts of religious police, fashionable looks remain hugely popular.
But embracing hipster isn't without risk - all the more so since Iranian officials announced a crackdown on 'western' hairstyles and beauty treatments.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Unfortunately they’re on their own.
After all there was a mass uprising a few years ago and that was one government Obama didn’t want to topple.
Indeed.
Remember Neda.
I think I read somewhere that 70% of the population is under 30. The Iranian people like America and they want to emulate the West. Its the Mullahs that are controlling them. I always figured if we could keep them from getting the bomb long enough the people would eventually overthrow the regime. Too bad Barkey didn’t help them out a few years ago. Its hard to go up agains’t guns with fists.
And the women will get what a slightly lighter shade of black burqa to wear in the desert sun?
Strangely, I'm Ok with this.
I recall reading similar information quite a few years ago. The young people, for the most part, are not adhering to the moslem ways, and they do not hate us.
The Daily Mail has the most pathetic photo captions.
Under a photo of a man wearing a blue shirt:
“This man is wearing a blue shirt.”
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