Mentions (10)
"If you watch videos of people walking though the streets of Tehran, you could easily mistake them for Barcelona. The city is full of charming, tree lined streets with streets with beaifully decorated town houses and handsome, well dressed people."
"Protests raging through Tehran, with the regime potentially on the cusp of collapse. War in Aleppo."
"Oh my dad was the head royal surgeon of the shah and my mom was a professor of economics and regional head of the Anglo-Persian oil company. They had to go through a grueling flight from Tehran to California"
"The underemployed, glass-eyed, stupid and violent street morons who the CIA armed in Tehran to topple Mossadegh are a mental and emotional mirror to the mouth breathers wearing "federal police" tags and face masks in ICE."
"is Tehran going to be Golem heights phase 2 ?"
"I am in Tehran and got traveler's diarrhea. I went to pharmacy and asked for something, and within 10 seconds I was out the door with a 50 cent bottle of something called Diphnokim. I proceeded to take 2 and felt high within the hour, after which I googled the drug name and realized what they gave m"
"What really makes my cortisol levels rise is that there's always gotta be a power-tripping negotiation ritual or humblebrag about how they always have a cousin in Tehran or Berlin that can do it better and cheaper."
"In Tehran during the 60's-70's there was a dude who ran a restaurant with his wife, butchering their own meat and making kebabs. One day his wife disappears, the man was very upset, he files a missing persons report, but the investigations doesn't lead anywhere, so the case was dropped."
"In Tehran, the people rise together, unarmed yet fearless, proving freedom cannot be silenced."
"In Tehran, the street cats move with the bored elegance of fallen aristocrats. You see them from the windows of taxis stalled in the neon bleed of midnight traffic"