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Moharram. It`s time for mourning!
The month of moharram has come. A month of mourning for the third Shia Imam Hossein and his family cruelly killed in Karbala on the day of Ashura. I won`t go into details about his life and this particular event. I`d rather tell you how Tehran (and I`d say the whole Iran) changes when the holy month of moharram comes. Streets of Tehran which are always full of people wearing black clothes, but during moharram (and especially first 10 days that precede the day of Ashura) their amount doubles. Most of them are religious young men, small businesses` owners, shopkeepers who`d like to share their grief and feel themselves…
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About Stranger in Tehran
Hi there! And welcome to my blog! I`ve been living in Iran for several years now since I married an Iranian. And during all this time I`ve been thinking of a medium to share what I see here with others and mostly with foreigners. Iran is well covered in mass media, but they say almost nothing about people`s everyday life. And I believe that it would be interesting for people all over the world to see what kind of life Iranians have and what kind of people they are. You might think that there are plenty of blogs that are written by Iranian bloggers and there is no need in…