I want to try to give you readers back home a sense of what it’s like here in Iran. Strangers come up to you on the street all the time, give you a big hug and say, “We love Americans.” People in Iran consider driving to be a sport — the Iranian version of bullfighting. 70% of the population [...] Continue Reading…

Travel by Germans to the Islamic Republic of Iran is soaring.
Travel agencies, tour operators, and travel wholesalers are booking Iran for droves of tourists in Germany.
‘There has been an enormous increase in the number of German tourists travelling to Iran in 2008, the Managing Director of Dr. Tigges/Gebeco travel agency, Ury Steinway has told the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper. [...] Continue Reading…

“Beyond our ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”— Rumi, 13th-century Persian poet

Bob Augustine’s last encounter with Iran was on a Pan Am plane, a few days before Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini took control as architect of the country’s fundamentalist Islamic revolution. He remembers the panicked faces as plainclothes security men yanked passengers off [...] Continue Reading…