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ordinary family photos are not sexy, or are they?

Family photos of Hedyeh Tehrani, famous iranian actress, are so hot these days in Iran. (There are even fake photos). I don't know who has published these photos on the Net and what was his or her real purpose. What I do know, however, is that these photos have nothing unsual for a non-iranian viewer. Meanwhile I'm sure that Iranian people find it extremly unusual, hot and even erotic. This is because nobody in Iran has ever seen her body or her hair in a film or even in public, for Islamic laws prevent Iranian women to apear in public without covering their body and their hair (thanks God, not their faces though, like many Arab women). Aside from the fact that these photos might result in serious damages to her carrer as a successful and well-paid actress in the future, they can also reveal the huge gap between the private and public lives and values of Iranian people, which is absolutely an outcome of extreme Islamic rules and religon-derived traditional culture.

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hardliners waiting for a coup

Rooydad reports that there are other death sentences are on the way for some of the top members of the banned liberal opposition group, the Iran Freedom Movement. It seems to me that hardliner's are doing their best to ruin the recently enhanced views about Iran and they eventually want to completely take control of the country reformist by a kind of political coup against the minor reformist parts of the power. It can be reached by either encouraging U.S and alies to attack Iran or makeing Iranian people outragous so they have no choice other than a riot which hardliners think they can control.

tell me what you buy, i'll tell you who you are

What Iranian people, or at least middle class Tehranian people, are encouraged to buy, shows how do they tend to think. Check out billboards in hip areas of Tehran.

don't chat with that sturbucks girl

Be carfeful iranian fellows who travel to western countries. Never chat with anybody in public or you will be accused of spying on Islamic Republic for U.S or other western states.