January 6, 2004
Street names are not changable in Tehran
Iran and Egypt changed the names of two streets which were thought to be offensive to both sides. Egypt changed the "Pahlavi" and Iran changed "Khalid Islamboli". What is unsaid in that Tehranians actually never used even the previous name, let alone the new one, "Intifida". For all of us that street is called "Vozara", meaning Ministers, which I think was named about 3 decades ago.
Posted by hoder at January 6, 2004 3:17 PMComments
No news report I can think of on the transformation ofKhalid Islambuli Street to Intifada Street has mentioned the fact that nobody in Tehran uses either name anyway. When you hail a taxi, you ask to go to Vozara, the old and most commonly used name for this fairly smart North Tehran street. The name "Ministers" I think comes from the fact various ministers (Dr. Eqbal and Sharif-Emami?) used to live there, in very nice houses looking onto the Park-e Sayee. What a lovely place it must have been then, not the sh**t hole it is now.. excuse my French..
- By: Alidad on January 14, 2004
- By: Alidad on January 14, 2004
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As far as I know there is no "P" in Arabic. How did they ever have a "Pahlavi" street to change? And I agree with Mashdi, the person who built that street in Tehran was not Vali-Asr, it was someone named Pahlavi. You just can't take that away.
- By: Amir on January 9, 2004
- By: Amir on January 9, 2004
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Just as I wrote in my weblog: http://iraniandiaries.blogspot.com/2004_01_01_iraniandiaries_archive.html#107350737171462214
- By: Ali on January 7, 2004
- By: Ali on January 7, 2004
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I don't know about the PAHLAVI street in Cairo, but some people still use PAHLAVI for VALI-E-ASR street in Tehran. :))
- By: Mashdi Mashalla on January 7, 2004
- By: Mashdi Mashalla on January 7, 2004
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