The nose of an empress. She gets a lot of hate on her Instagram but I’m glad she embraces her features.

The Invincible Six is a 1970 Iranian-American adventure film set in Iran about a band of American thieves who attempt to steal Tehran’s crown jewels, from Pahlavi-era crowns to Nader Shah’s fabled Indian diamonds. Ironically, the Harry S. Truman Museum gets burglarized just

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Birthday girl 🤍

Westerners view Iranians as another shade of backward desert caricature no different than Arabs, Afghans, or Pakistanis. No amount of “vee are not barbaric moslems vee are civilized” comments will help either. They are outraged by Little Iran but not by Little Italy or Little

Little America, Tehran, 1944. 🙂

Back in NY after 10 years 🇺🇸

Dallas’s Channel 5 Action News segment on the Iranian-American McCrellas family, about the growing anti-Iranian sentiments in the U.S. and tensions sparked by the hostage crisis, 1981, full interview.

Yep. Iranians in America faced two major waves of racism, one during the hostage crisis, which many Iranians opposed, and another after 9/11, despite Iran not being involved at all. Several Iranian businesses were vandalized and firebombed.

A poster from the “They Shall Not Perish” campaign, a 1917 fundraising effort by ACRNE to aid victims of the Armenian genocide in the regions of Armenia, Greece, Syria, and Iran. $30 million at the time would be equivalent to roughly $816 million today.

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Arabic has never been banned in Iran. In fact, it remains a mandatory second-language course for all non-Arab Iranians.

> goes on a sanctimonious rant lecturing Iranians to call it Persian and not Farsi > calls it Farsi anyway

“May God protect this country from the enemy, from drought, and from lies.”

The legendary Martha Graham in Iran, late 60s. A promotional poster for her performance with the Martha Graham Dance Company in Tehran.