I am from Iran, the country of beauty and lovely people.
I used to live in amazing Tehran the shiny Tehran!

I left Tehran in Aug 2003 and left a part of me there....but

No, I am not a terrorist nor a wife beater,
I don't live in a tent in a desert

I speak Farsi, not Arabic
Iran is pronounced "EERAUN" and not "I - ran" (it's not track & field)

News flash:  Iran and Iraq are two different countries ,
Middle east is a region and NOT a continent,
And camels are not our way of transportation.

Iranian women are just as outspoken (if not more) and liberal as the
European women,

Tehran: 

Ammameh Tehran 24   Valiasr

Dar Abad Restaurants   Tehran's four live cameras  Jamshidieh Park

Mellat Park   Tehran's view from above  Dar Abad Restaurant II

Mahmoud Pakzad's Valuable Photo Essat of Old Tehran   Nasrolah Kasraeean's Shots

Amazing Tochal Mountains north of Tehran

Rest of Iran:

A road towards Masoule  Bam's Earthquake and tons of other shots from Iran 

Some shots from my own trip to amazing Shiraz 

Naghshe Jahan Square, Isfahan     33 Pol, Esfahan  Isfahan

Kish Island  Old Persian Empire  Many fabulous pictures from all around Iran (Yazd, Tehran etc)

Arash Dejkam's photo collection of Nothern Iran

Fellow Americans, click the following links I think you will be intrigued!

The 2004 Iranian-American Survey (High Resolution) - (Low Resolution)

Six Questions for Iran, by  Nicholas D. Kristof an Op-Ed Columnist for "The New York Times", May 2004 (Audio/Video version)

Stanford University's Cultural and Information Center about Iran

(Thanks to all of you for the photos shared with me. Unfortunately I don't know where I found the ones to which there's no link)
I'd be more than happy to update this beautiful collection regularly, so if you have pictures to share, kindly please send it to me so that I can put them here together with your name