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Mosaic of values: Life in urban Iran – as experienced in Khaju Bridge (top and left) and Naqsh-e Jahan Square (above) – is in bright contrast to the strongman politics of the Iranian government. Photos: Mujahid Safodien/Middle East African News Agency

The City of God – and contradiction

Tehran is the archetype of a place that is governed by the divine but defined by mortals

  • Umamah Bakharia
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