We are Iranians not Martians!

What I try to show here is that Iran is not a place on Mars. This country has deep roots in history and has passed through thousands of historical incidents. The people are millions and follow thousands of ways and beliefs in life. Many of them believe in some kind of faith and they are mostly Shia Muslims.
Giving pictures of daily life and routines here, I try to make a bridge for the visitors of this blog to come and see what is going on here. It's the same when I meet non-Iranians visiting Iran. Many of them have CNN pictures in mind when they come and visit and I haven't met any who is not shocked with the difference of the picture in his/her mind and the reality.
Well, we are living in a closed system. But who and which regime can ever keep people behind high walls as they used and succeeded to keep hundreds of years ago? Now, many people travel abroad, have satellite channels to watch and have access to internet. The tendency among the younger generation for knowing and learning about other cultures is so high and I can see they are much better in this regard when compared with their parents. They speak English more easily and have lots of dreams which are not different from any other young one's in other parts of the world.
Well, when you come here, you will see a life in surface which more or less is like with what western media tries to make about us. But just go a bit deeper and you hardly can differentiate it with western life. I don't deny the differences between our cultures, but are we an exception here? I don't think so. Every county has her own characteristics to mention.
A Swedish student has traveled to Iran recently working on his Master thesis about Iranian blogs. Here is an interview with him. Don't forget that his stay has lasted just six weeks and that's a very very short time to know a society like Iran.

And this is a report Frances Harrison, BBC correspondent in Tehran has written about Iranian women and their fight for equity.