Tehran: the end of the road
Regarded in the western world to be somewhat of a pariah in international affairs, since the 1979 revolution, Iran has set out to define a new national identity, and with it, an unquestionable political integrity in an ambition to regain, if possible, the through the centuries lost political influence of historical Persia. But, still considered a border-line third-world nation by people both on the inside and outside Iran, the Islamic Republic has much to prove before the developed world will treat it with the political respect it claims to deserve.____ © Fredrik Härenstam / Invision Images