Targol and Massoud are both Project Managers in respectively telecommunication and IT security companies, are mid 30 and are married for 14 years without child. They have a good situation (upper middle class) they get before Ahmadinejad became president (2005).…
Language and French influence
The language spoken in Iran is called Farsi or Persian. It is an Indo-European language and while written with Arabic alphabet, it is not related to Arabic at all. It was funny to me to hear some words that sound…
Internet, online banking and censure in Iran
Internet is filtered by the government; some web sites like Facebook are blocked (since the Arabic Spring). Other services are limited from western countries, I think here about online payment. I had to renew the hosting of my website while…
Women and Islam
I’d like first to enumerate some terms defining how the women are covered, in order: headscarf < hijab (you saw the whole face) < chador (the extension of the hijab to cover the whole body until the toes, usually black)…
Iran’s political system
As an Islamic theology, Iran has a very particular political system, which can be split in 2 parts to simplify it: the “normal” democratic branch with elected presidency (now Ahmadinejad) and parliament; and the Guardian Council. The Guardian Council is…
Iran, Behind the scene
On the surface, Iran is beautiful and wonderful. After some discussions with Iranians, you however better understand the political and economical situation. The economy is however in a bad situation, on the down side, everybody told me “it is going…
Last days in Tehran
When we arrive, we were supposed to go to our CS host respectively, but we figured out we had the same! As the metro is closing before 11pm in Tehran, we arrived too late. So we shared a taxi to…
Kashan
I took the bus in the afternoon to Kashan and arrived about 18:30. My CS host was kind enough to bring me from the bus terminal. I was just the first of many other guests at his place: Raquel and…
Esfahan
The bus to Isfahan was the same price as the taxi fare from Yazd city center to the bus terminal: 50000 IRR, very cheap for a 5h bus trip! If we started almost empty, some other passengers joined in the…
Yazd
I got the nightly bus to Yazd exactly one day after the five Europeans. I tried to reach them to know in which hotel to go, but I didn’t receive their SMS. Arriving at 5am, I just went to the…