Iran Like You Have Never Seen It Before (In Pictures)

Modern Iran in pictures

An aerial view of a large modern city with many buildings and highways. It is in a valley, next to a chain of mountains.
Tehran, the capital of Iran. (Photo: Amir Pashaei/Wikimedia/CCBYSA4.0)
Panoramic view. Picture of Tehran viewed from a mountain, at night. On the mountain one can see the silhouette of a cyclist watching the lights of the large city below.
Tehran. All the following pictures are of Tehran. (Photo: Stuart Redman/Flickr/CCBY2.0)
A lake in the middle of a city. Some people stand next to the lake appreciating the view.
(Photo: Mehran Riazi/Wikimedia/CCBY4.0)
A group of men and women inside a modern building cheer enthusiastically.
Watching a soccer match on the giant screens at the mall. (Photo: Mojnews/Wikimedia/CCBY4.0)
Inside a large empty, modern mall. It has a glass ceiling.
The Iran Mall in Tehran. (Photo: Diba Tensile Architecture/Wikimedia/CCBYSA4.0)
Modern, chic restaurant with big glass windows. Men and women sit at the tables chatting.
Inside an upscale restaurant in the Tehran Waterfall Park. (Photo: Ninara/Flickr/CCBY20)
Inside a spacious room with a very high ceiling. There are semicircular rows of chair on the ground for the politicians.
The parliament. (Photo: Mahdi Sigari/Wikimedia/CCBY4.0)
A room of the synagogue. It has hanging chandeliers and richly decorated walls.
Yusef Abad synagogue, one of Iran’s 34 Jewish synagogues. (Photo: Orijentolog/Wikimedia/CCBY2.5)
Picture of Tehran from afar. A glass building is in the foreground and the mountains in the background.
(Photo: Germanax/Flickr/CCBYND2.0)
A panoramic view of Tehran from a mountain. In the foreground a couple, sitting on top of the mountain, take in the view of the city.
(Photo: Germanax/Flickr/CCBYND2.0)
Street view. A street flanked by tall trees.
(Photo: Behrooz Rezvani/Wikimedia/CCBY3.0)
An elegant townhouse with a car parked outside. The car, a tree, and the street are covered in several centimetres/inches of snow.
To the surprise of many, Tehran has four seasons. (Photo: Ninara/Flickr/CCBY2.0)
A snowman in the middle of a street covered in snow.
(Photo: Ninara/Flickr/CCBY2.0)
A very pyramid-like tower in the middle of the city. The center of the tower is hollowed, like a triumphal arch.
Azadi Tower, Tehran. (Photo: Bahador Zadeh/Wikimedia/CCBYSA4.0)
Another shot of the tower.
The same tower from another angle. (Photo: Blondinrikard Fröberg/Wikimedia/CCBY2.0)
Inside a subway station, next to the train.
Tehran’s rapid subway. All the following pictures are in Tehran. (Photo: Cordelia Persen/Flickr/CCBYND2.0)
Inside an ample metro station, the access area or lobby.
Tehran’s subway serves more than 3 million people every day. (Photo: Sara Rajaei/Wikimedia/CCBY4.0)
A row of yellow cabs.
(Photo: Meghdad Madadi/Wikimedia/CCBY4.0)
Red buses transiting the city.
Rapid bus system. (Photo: Kabelleger/David Gubler/Wikimedia/CCBY4.0)
A stand with a row of red bicycles parked in the middle of the city.
Bicycles as public transportation. Anyone can rent a bike in one spot of the city and return it at another spot. (Photo: Amirrezapl2r/Wikimedia/CCBY4.0)
A railway station with two trains in sight.
Railway station. (Photo: Milad Mosapoor/Wikimedia)
A man sits on a bench and observes the colorful tulips spread before him in a park.
Tehran has more than 2,000 parks. This one is Mellat Park. (Photo: Tasnim News Agency/Wikimedia/CCBY4.0)
A field of red tulips in a park
Mellat Park. (Photo: Fars News Agency/Wikimedia/CCBY4.0)
A park. There are tall trees on the left, mountains in the background, and in the foreground people walk on a lane.
Ab-o Atash Park, Tehran. (Photo: Ninara/Flickr/CCBY2.0)
A very green forest with tall straight trees.
Jamshidieh Park, Tehran. (Photo: Kasir/Wikimedia/CCBYSA3.0)
Men and women enthusiastically cheering inside a modern building.
Spectators watching a soccer match at the Mellat Cineplex, a movie theatre in Tehran. (Photo: MojNews/Wikimedia/CCBY4.0)
A woman watches a soccer match inside a mall. She covers her mouth with both hands in disbelief.
Her soccer team seems to be losing. (Photo: MojNews/Wikimedia/CCBY4.0)
Auditorium full of men and women.
Press conference at the cineplex. (Photo: Fars News Agency/Wikimedia/CCBY4.0)
Inside a modern glass-building. Two men walk on a ramp.
Inside the cineplex. (Photo: Tasnim News Agency/Wikimedia/CCBY4.0)
A woman at a press conference.
One of Iran’s most famous movie directors, Niki Karimi. (Photo: MojNews/Wikimedia/CCBY4.0)
An elegant theatre.
Roudaki Hall, Tehran. (Photo: Hassan Aslani/Wikimedia/CCBY4.0)
A man playing piano on stage during a concert
Bardia Sadrenoori playing at Roudaki Hall. (Photo: Damithon86/Wikimedia/CCBY4.0)
An orchestra playing on stage
Tehran Symphony Orchestra conducted by Shahrdad Rouhani. (Photo: Tasnim News Agency/Wikimedia/CCBY4.0)
A well-designed, modern soccer stadium
Naghsh-e Jahan Stadium in the city of Isfahan. All the following pictures are from Isfahan. (Photo: Amir Hosseini/Wikipedia/CCBY4.0)
Inside an elegant shopping mall
(Photo: Ehsan6sha/Wikimedia/CCBYSA4.0)
The inside of a church which ceiling and walls are covered with religious paintings
Vank Cathedral, a Christian church. (Photo: Diego Delso/Wikimedia/CCBYSA4.0)
Another angle of the same church. More wall paintings
Vank Cathedral. (Photo: Julia Maudlin/Flickr/CCBY2.0)
Interiors. Richly decorated palace room. The ceiling and walls are covered with crystals.
Golestan Palace. (Photo: Diego Delso/Wikimedia/CCBYSA4.0)
A richly decorated palace hall.
Marmar Palace. (Photo: Hamid Tavakoli/Wikimedia/CCBY4.0)
Facade of an Italian-looking villa with gardens
Sa’adabad Palace Complex. (Photo: Ninara/Flickr/CCBY2.0)
Inside a big room with Persian carpeting and European-style palatial furniture.
Mellat Palace Museum, one of the palaces in the Sa’adabad Palace Complex. (Photo: Bernard Gagnon/Wikimedia/CCBY4.0)
A richly decorated ceiling.
A house in the city of Kashan. (Photo: sunriseOdyssey/Flickr/CCBYSA2.0)
Inside a vast modern-looking museum.
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. (Photo: Negar Ghaffari/Wikimedia/CCBY2.0)
Inside another big, modern-looking musuem.
A 3,000 plus-year-old civilization is bound to have a good archaeological museum: Museum of Islamic Art and Archaeology of Iran. (Photo: Farhangimoozeh/Wikimedia/CCBYSA4.0)
The entrance to a building pictured from the outside. It is a stone building and the main door is flanked with carved columns.
The Glassware and Ceramic Museum of Iran. (Photo: Nahid V./Flickr/CCBY2.0)
An big, orange, squarish building pictured from the outside.
Malek National Museum and Library, a private museum that holds 19,000 rare manuscripts and is one of Iran’s six largest libraries. (Photo: Azadi68/Wikimedia/CCBYSA4.0)
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Inside a minimalist room. Carpets hang from the white walls.
Is only natural that Iran would have a museum dedicated to their famous Persian carpets: The Carpet Museum. (Photo: reibai/Flickr/CCBY2.0)
Aerial view of highways in the foreground and a city in the background. The highways are flanked by grass and trees.
Tehran. (Photo: Nahid V./Flickr/CCBY2.0)
A blue lake surrounded by mountains.
The Karaj Dam, where people go to practice water sports such as water skiing, sailing, canoeing, kayaking, swimming, and fishing; plus hang gliding. (Photo: Ninara/Wikimedia/CCBYSA2.0)
A serene panoramic picture of a road with cars, in Autumn. The road is flanked by yellow and red-leafed trees. There are mountains in the background.
Chalus road, between Tehran and the Caspian Sea. (Ninara/Flickr/CCBY2.0)
A picture in nature in Winter: a placid small river, rocks, naked trees, hills, snow.
Haraz River. (Ninara/Flickr/CCBY2.0)
Boys and girls with snowboards at a ski resort
Iran has 24 ski resorts. (Photo: Photo RNW.org.Flickr/CCBYND2.0)
On top of big mountains covered with snow. Two persons stand on the top of the mountain. There are clouds below them. There is a gondola lift.
Tochal Ski Resort is one of the most famous ones. It is so close to Tehran that a gondola lift connects both places. (Photo: Mehdi Ghanimifard/Wikimedia/CCBYSA3.0)
Slopes with people skiing. There is also a ski-lift.
Tochal. (Photo: Milad Mosapoor/Wikimedia/CCBYSA3.0)
A woman and her daughter on skies, ready to go downhill.
Dizin Ski Resort. (Photo: Nkateb/Wikimedia/CCBYSA3.0)
Snowy mountains. Some skiers make their way down the slopes.
Dizin. (Photo: Ninara/Wikimedia/CCBYSA2.0)
Two boys skiing.
(Photo: Photo RNW.org.Flickr/CCBYND2.0)
A sunny beach with palm trees. Some people are playing volleyball on the sand.
Kish Island. (Photo: Blondinrikard Fröberg/Flickr/CCBY2.0)
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A girl having fun with a painted optical illusion at Kish’s pier. (Photo: Blondinrikard Fröberg/Flickr/CCBY2.0)
A person runs down hill ready to take off with their paraglider.
Paragliders on the hills of Imamzadeh Hashem. (Photo: Ninara/Flickr/CCBY2.0)
Four rock climbers. Three wait on top of a mountain while another makes his way up.
Tourists rock climbing in Bisotun. (Photo: Jerome Bon/Flickr/CCBY2.0)
Two scuba divers, a man and a woman, emerge from the sea.
Kish Island. (Photo: Hamed Saber/Flickr/CCBY2.0)
Three people with mountain bikes in the hills.
Malagha. (Photo: Ninara/Flickr/CCBY2.0)
Two hikers, a man and a woman, walk up a deserted hill.
Bisotun. (Photo: Jerome Bon/Flickr/CCBY2.0)
A couple riding on a wave runner, at sea.
(Photo: Hamed Saber/Flickr/CCBY2.0)
A woman scientist does research inside a lab.
AryoGen, a pharmaceutical company. (Photo: Tasmin News/Wikimedia/CCBY4.0)
A rocket launching towards space.
Launching a rocket with a satellite at the Imam Khomeini National Space Base. (Photo: Tasnim News/Wikimedia/CCBY4.0)
Picture of a telecabin about to leave its landing and to dangle over a valley down below.
Lahijan city. (Photo: Blondinrikard Fröberg/Flickr/CCBY2.0)
Two elegantly dressed women with head coverings walk through a corridor. One has blonde tussled hair, wears sunglasses, a big fashion-conscious ring, a red head covering and black modern clothes.
Posh Iranians in Tehran. (Photo: Kamyar Adl/Flickr/CCBY2.0)
Three young women dressed elegantly walk down the street while laughing.
More fashion-conscious Iranians in Tehran. (Photo: Kamyar Adl/Flickr/CCBY2.0)
A couple, a handsome man and a woman dressed in black, sit against a stone monument, reading and smiling.
Shiraz, the fifth most populous city in Iran. (Photo: Adam Jones/Flickr/CCBYSA2.0)
A father shows his young daughter an inscription on a wall.
Shiraz. (Photo: Adam Jones/Flickr/CCBYSA2.0)
A girl poses for the camera in a public square, next to a pool. A woman with a state-of-the-art camera takes her picture.
Isfahan city. (Photo: Richard Weil/Flickr/CCBYND2.0)
A father wearing a Western suit and speaking on a cellphone, holds his toddler back from diving into the water.
Ablutions pool at the Jameh Mosque in the town of Abyaneh. (Photo: Adam Jones/Flickr/CCBYSA2.0)
A woman dressed in red and black and wearing sunglasses takes a selfie wit her phone.
(Photo: llee_wu/Flickr/CCBYND2.0)
A couple relaxing in a park. She sits down while he lies on the grass, resting his head on her lap.
Tehran. (Photo: Kamyar Adl/Flickr/CCBY2.0)
Two young women in a car. One of them is driving, the other is next to her.
Tehran. (Photo: Kamyar Adl/Flickr/CCBY2.0)
A man holds a brush and a palette.
An art restorer working on Borovjerdi Historical House, in Kashan city. (Photo: Adam Jones/Flickr/CCBYSA2.0)
Two women talk next to a mural.
More art restorers, this time working in Lantern Hall, in Ardabil city. (Photo: Adam Jones/Flickr/CCBYSA2.0)
8 smiling young men and women sit around a table outside laughing and talking while they eat.
Tourists having lunch near the village of Yazd. (Photo: Matthew Carson/Flickr/CCBYND2.0)

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