Sa'id outside his carpet shop in Esfahan
The Hummer in Imam Square before we left Esfahan
We had a relatively short 400km drive to Tehran along Iran’s great roads. Iran’s chaotic and polluted capital was a bit of a nightmare to navigate with it’s teaming traffic.
Top of our days agenda was a visit to Bobby Sands Street. In keeping with Iran’s revolutionary past, the government has renamed many of Tehran’s streets after reputed revolutionaries and freedom fighters. One that we had to visit was Bobby Sands Street, which audaciously runs alongside the British Embassy to commemorate the life of the H-Block prisoner of war and hunger striker.
One of the Anti-US and anti-Zionist Murals outside the US Den of Espionage, Tehran
We also visited the former location of the US Embassy, used before the Islamic revolution when the two countries still had diplomatic ties. However, today, this building is known as the ‘US Den of Espionage’ and is interestingly occupied by the hardline Islamic group, the Sepah militia. The building’s perimeter walls are even plastered with anti-American and anti-Zionist propaganda commissioned by the Iranian Government itself.
The Statue of Liberty?? More Like the Statue of Death. These are all commissioned by the Iranian Government
After a quick bite to eat in on Tehran’s northside, we got moving again for the Turkish border. Pushing hard for another 600km that night, we managed to reach Maku, only 50kms from the Turkish border. This wasn’t much of town and the only place we could find to stay was a dingy old hotel that is definitely up there with our worst places we’ve stayed so far!
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Did you have a chicken supper on Bobby Sands Street?
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