Six Iranians arrested for appearing in a video dancing to Pharrell Williams' song Happy have been
sentenced to up to one year in prison and 91 lashes, their lawyer says.
Iran: Happy video dancers sentenced to 91 lashes and jail - BBC News
I mean not all but some of the things in article.....let's say "Yes you can do it in Iran"...but prepared to be punished severely.
some of Western style shit is forbidden in Iran due to known reasons... But what
@Serpentine wanted to say was that you can have whatever type of pleasure you want in Iran... and yes, even in holy places like Mashhad, you can see youngsters and sometimes oldsters go to wild drug, alcohol and pool parties in thousands in private villas and houses... A tourist can easily talk to a up town looking guy about it and that boy or girl would definitely take him with them to those parties... Iranian government knows about thousands of parties being held in private villas but they just don't care as far as it is private... Most of the times at least!
When the rules were tighter back in Ahmadi nezjad era, I had an American friend along his Danish girl I came to meet in a mall, to one of these parties... both of them saying..they would definitely prefer this type of clean parties to discos who you don't know who are sharing the dance floor with you...
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@Serpentine... It is true that Iranian reality is 360 degree different from what West portray it due to their political agenda...but every body who want to visit Iran must take this into account that: You can find anything in Iran...
1- you can see disastrous villages in some area in Iran... mostly in dry desert regions of South and South Eastern.... at the same time you can see magical villages almost anywhere else in Iran...
2- You can find very religious people in some cities that don't even bare the music and music concerts holding in their cities...always protesting to cancel music concerts... while at the same time, you can see regions mostly of secular life style... In this very much same Iran you can see hundreds of underground music bands... using bihijab girls... girls singing... making sexy videos... rap... rock.... metal... every thing... and government know about them and do mostly nothing... Like Satellite dishes that despite the rules are almost every where and government actually learnet to deal with it...
3- some parts of Tehran and other cities is very bad in form and architecture..but most part of our cities are great and very clean... Best cities in Iran in terms of cleanness and modern architecture are Tehran, Tabriz, Mashhad and Isfahan, Shiraz.... there are some small cities too that are exquisite... some of them are old cities like Jolfa, Shahinshahr, etc.... some are newly built cities... like Binalood, Golbahar, Pardisan, etc....
4- It is a normal saying among youngsters in Iran that "if you want to leave Iran for money or discos and sex, then you,re stupid..as all of them are much easier to have in Iran than West"
5- Iran is a collection of magical, unique touristic places that are yet to be advertised in media...
@Serpentine you forgot to add the biggest and most valuable jewelry collection in world in Tehran...
Based on my personal observations from Western tourists in Iran, all of them, never thought Iran to be such a beautiful and tourist worthy place... they actually named Iran their best choice ever in their list of visited places... There are reasons behind this results... Unique people that despite other nations when they see tourists in cities or in villages, they invite you directly to their homes for dinner and stay... They don't even know them... This unusual habit comes from Iranian culture that see it necessary to bring best time to their guests... you can see this in their houses too... their reception hall is equipped better than their own rooms...
Very exotic sight seeing and touristic places that are not found anywhere else or attractions that they did not know exist...
I believe of Government take it easy for tourists to choose if they want to stay without hijab, then the number of tourists will be ten folds very easily.... Kish Island is a good example... most of mainland rules are loose in Kish, this is why millions decide to go there...
Unlike
major touristic countries like France, Italy, US and somehow Turkey where their touristic attractions is somehow artificially made for tourists and their main stream society is not touristic, Iran is very original... as its attractions are not fixed to please tourists...it is what it is... and people are a part of this attraction...
