Amazing pictures from Iran published
Photographer visiting Iran comes back with spectacular pictures, insights, just before upcoming elections in Islamic Republic: 'For ordinary Iranians, government is constant embarrassment'
Just before Iranian elections, the British Daily Mail released incredible images from the Islamic country Wednesday.
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Photographer Amos Chapple said the real surprise of Persia was not its untouched and beautiful countryside, but how different it is from "western perceptions of the country."
Group of friends in hills above Tehran
Palangan Village, in mountains near the Iraq border
Two shepherds lead Palangan's flock of communally-owned sheep out to pasture
At Sa'adabad Palace complex in northern Tehran, Islamic revolutionaries sawed statue of deposed Shah in half
Young worker walks through light of stained glass window in Tehran Bazaar
"I think because access for journalists is so difficult, people have a skewed image of what Iran is – the regime actually want to portray the country as a cauldron of anti-western sentiment so they syndicate news footage of chanting nutcases which is happily picked up by overseas networks," said Chappel, "for ordinary Iranians though, the government is a constant embarrassment."
See full article and more pictures on The Daily Mail .
Chapple said: 'I found most Iranians – particularly the younger generation – to be very aware of the world around them... with a burning desire for the freedoms they feel they are being denied by an out of touch, ultra-conservative religious elite.'
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