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Unprofessional Reputed Iranian Nature Tour Company

Unprofessional Reputed Iranian Nature Tour Company The EcoTour company (Eco Expert Ltd) in Tehran, Iran is an eco tourism nature company. They were established 1998 to promote Iran's eco tourism attractions and to improve bio-cultural attitudes among people, both locally and internationally, and to pave the way for interested tourists They claim to have received approval from the three top Iranian Tourism Training Centres, the Iranian Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organisation and hold classes and training courses about nature and its value. Mr Ali Adhami, the board of directors in their website says: "We guarantee well- equipped, selectively catered, safe and eco- friendly trips." On 10 August 2007, I took my mother and her friend on EcoTour’s one day trekking trip to Kondelus Village. Unfortunately the company hired a mini-bus driver who was not familiar with the road to Chaloos that has a series of dangerous winding sections and tunnels. As a result, the bus driver hit the wall of Tunnel No 6. As a result of the resulting huge impact, my mother fell over and was badly injured, she suffered shock of accident and injuries to her foot. My mother needed financial assistance for medical treatment, but Ecotours told us they would pay nothing towards the cost as all the expenses would be paid for by the driver’s Third Party Insurance. This contradicts what Ecotours have told passengers that whoever travels with them is insured for 1,000,000 tomans for hospital, doctors’ expenses. I feel that they contradict themselves because they try to escape from their responsibility toward my mother and myself and other passengers.

• Date: 10 August 2007
• Photographer: kombizz: gallery
• Location: Iran: gallery
• Tags: people nature friend village tour tourist company foot 1 tourism international contradiction persia mother vehicle kombizz tehran ecotour eco expert ltd 1998 lover iranian_tourism_training_centre iranian_cultural_heritage iranian_tourism_organisation ali_adhami adhami 10_august_2007 trekking_trip kondelus mini_bus chaloos winding_road bus_driver tunnel_no_6 financial_assistance medical_treatment cost expense third_party_insurance passenger insurance 000 tomans toman one_million impact shock injuries pain jam_hospital doctor
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Are they clearner than us ! (Part 3)

Are they clearner than us ! (Part 3) HERE, you can see the ADVANCED model in cleaning. I managed to see this advanced kind in just two places in Istanbul, and one place in small rich town in Germany. In this new system, not only it has an ADJUSTABLE metal nozzle, but the plastic COVER SEAT it changes by pressing that red button on the side of toilet. So here not only you can use the water in the right area, but also it prevents you NOT to take any VDs from the surface of toilet seat. So here not only we could save loads of toilet paper rolls and trees over years , but also prevent you to take any harmful germs from the previous occupier. If you are interested in viewing the evolution of this kind of toilets, then you could check the following links: http://www.ephotozine.com/u30254/gallery/654950 www.ephotozine.com/u30254/gallery/655679

• Date: 4 July 2007
• Photographer: kombizz: gallery
• Location: Turkey: gallery
• Tags: germany istanbul model toilet wc kombizz seat adjustable nozzel hole roller paper washing bottom arse venereal disease sexually transmitted diseases vd std advanced najes
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Gogad Caravansary

This is a small section of huge place of Gogad Caravansary located in Mahallat in the province of Esfehun Nesfe Jahan. A 'caravan' in Persian means a group of travelers or merchants banded together and organized for mutual assistance and defense while traveling through unsettled or hostile country. Caravan trade is associated with the history of Iran and the Middle East. It is evident that all trade from one fertile area to another in this region had to be organized from the first, since long distances of desert trail separated settled parts and since local governments could not guarantee protection against tribes eager to loot and pillage. Such wares as jewels, spices, perfumes, dyes, metals, rare woods, ivory, oils, and textiles (chiefly silk) are associated with the trade. Camels were the main catties from Egypt and Iran to Mesopotamia and throughout the Arabian Peninsula. When you inquire the age of a caravansary in modern Iran, you are generally told that it dates from the time of Shah Abbas. This is a deceptive generalization and a term applied indiscriminately to all caravansaries built between the late 16th- 19th centuries AD. At present this beautiful historical place is rented to a private Iranian car company. The car company manage this place by converting it to a hotel.

• Date: 14 June 2007
• Photographer: kombizz: gallery
• Location: Iran: gallery
• Tags: persia kombizz gogad_caravansary gogad mahallat esfehun_nesfe_jahan shah_abbas
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Gogad Caravansary- Thru the window

This is a small section of huge place of Gogad Caravansary located in Mahallat in the province of Esfehun Nesfe Jahan. A 'caravan' in Persian means a group of travelers or merchants banded together and organized for mutual assistance and defense while traveling through unsettled or hostile country. Caravan trade is associated with the history of Iran and the Middle East. It is evident that all trade from one fertile area to another in this region had to be organized from the first, since long distances of desert trail separated settled parts and since local governments could not guarantee protection against tribes eager to loot and pillage. Such wares as jewels, spices, perfumes, dyes, metals, rare woods, ivory, oils, and textiles (chiefly silk) are associated with the trade. Camels were the main catties from Egypt and Iran to Mesopotamia and throughout the Arabian Peninsula. When you inquire the age of a caravansary in modern Iran, you are generally told that it dates from the time of Shah Abbas. This is a deceptive generalization and a term applied indiscriminately to all caravansaries built between the late 16th- 19th centuries AD. At present this beautiful historical place is rented to a private Iranian car company. The car company manage this place by converting it to a hotel.

• Date: 14 June 2007
• Photographer: kombizz: gallery
• Location: Iran: gallery
• Tags: persia kombizz gogad_caravansary gogad mahallat esfehun_nesfe_jahan shah_abbas
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Alishan Armenian School

This is an image of the Alishan Armenian school. It is located north side of British Embassy in Tehran. http://graduates.com/ls4.asp?city=Tehran&cid=249 http://wikimapia.org/1200487/

• Date: 14 June 2007
• Photographer: kombizz: gallery
• Location: Iran: gallery
• Tags: kombizz tehran alishan_armenian_school british_embassy
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Kale Pache, A Delicious Iranian Food

Kale Pache is one of the delicious Iranian food. Many people from different age grriup eaat this delicious food in very early morning around 5am before they go to work or climb the mountains.

• Date: 11 June 2007
• Photographer: kombizz: gallery
• Location: Iran: gallery
• Tags: kombizz kale_pache delicious_iranian_food
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My dedication to .....

I dedicate this piece of my image to 'Darwin's Nightmare', and people of Mwanza. It was directed by an Austrian highly intelligent filmmaker Hubert Sauper who has a deep understanding of the political, social and economical complexities of the realities he is filming. His film was nominated for an Academy Award. In Darwin's Nightmare, Saupert transports us to Tanzania, to the small town of Mwanza on the shores of Africa's biggest lake Victoria. We learn that the town sees a lot of business because of the massive exports of a fish called the Nile Perch. This species of fish was not known in that lake before the 1960s when it was introduced to the lake. A predatory species, the fish multiplied, but also caused the extinction of other species to the point that the lake could be considered a mono culture. The export of the fish is seemingly good for the development of Mwanza because it gives jobs to tousands of people who work in a processing plant. Two airplanes come every day from Russia to this little town to load in 500 tons of frozen, packaged fish fillets and fly them back to the restaurants and dining rooms of Europe. The daily cargo could feed the little town for a long time, but the villagers don't get to see the fish fillets because after the fish has gone through he modern processing plant, they cannot afford the fish. Although millions of people in the Tanzanian interior live on the brink of famine. Some of them will eat fried fish heads, which are processed in vast open-air pits infested with maggots and scavenging birds. Along the shores of the lake, homeless children fight over scraps of food and get high from the fumes of melting plastic-foam containers used to pack the fish. In the encampments where the fishermen live, AIDS is rampant and the afflicted walk back to their villages to die. Unfortunately the fish business is a ........ http://www.darwinsnightmare.com/ http://www.1001productions.net/LM/DAR/Darwin1.html http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424024/

• Date: 14 May 2007
• Photographer: kombizz: gallery
• Location: Tanzania: gallery
• Tags: fish africa film kombizz darwin_'s_nightmare mwanza hubert_sauper director aids lake_victoria perch nile_perch
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Old Traditional Style

• Date: 14 May 2007
• Photographer: kombizz: gallery
• Location: Iran: gallery
• Tags: kerman kombizz yazd sounati traditional_house
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Nature & Sin!

I saw this billboard in the middle of wilderness. It says: "The world is belong to God, (and He is present) so (please) do NOT make sin in front of God.

• Date: 13 May 2007
• Photographer: kombizz: gallery
• Location: Iran: gallery
• Tags: landscape wilderness god kombizz sin
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Golab Ghiree in Kashan

On the edge of the great desert of Dasht-e-Kavir, in the heart of Iran, city of Kashan stands which is situated about 220 km south of Tehran, the capital of Iran. It is the place that my grand father comes from. Kashan Province is also famous for its rosewater (Rose-water called " Golab" in Farsi language) which is the product of Qamsar, Niyasar and Barzook, smaller towns of Kashan province, and the three main producers of rosewater for over 800 years. In spring, The Ceremony of Rosewater Distillation Ceremony, flower picking, and extraction of rosewater, starts when rose buds begin to open, usually mid May to early June. In this season, the whole town is filled with the aroma of roses and rosewater. The light pink color Mohmmadi rose used for this purpose is named after the Prophet Mohammad Peace Be Upon Him (pbuh), for its delightful fragrance. Each year is washing the Ka'ba of the world Muslims with the pure fragrant rose-water produced in Kashan. Distillation of rosewater is carried out immediately after picking and is performed with their own traditional huge copper pots which each one has a capacity of 120–150 liters. These copper pots works as a pressure cooker. Around 20 kg of rose petals is put into every pot that holds 80 liters of water, and the pots are closed airtight. Each pot is connected, airtight, with an aluminum tube to a pitcher. These pitchers are placed in a ditch of running cold water and are weighted with cast iron to keep them below the water, in a way that the top of each pitcher is about 20 cm above the water surface. Each pitcher can hold 30–40 liters of liquid. The process will take between 4-20 hours and the outcome is about 35 liters of rosewater. The slower the process of extraction, the better the quality of the rosewater. A fine rosewater is very fragrant and tastes a little bitter. Every year from, 17th to 30th of May, the festival of rose and rosewater is held in the towns of Qamsar, Niyasar and Barzook.

• Date: 9 May 2007
• Photographer: kombizz: gallery
• Location: Iran: gallery
• Tags: muslim kombizz kashan dasht_-_e-_kavir rose_water golab golab_ghiree qamsar niyasar barzook ceremony_of_rosewater aroma mohmmadi_rose prophet_ mohammad_(pbuh) fragrance ka'ba distillation copper_pot festival_of_rose_and_rosewater kashani
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Which way should I go ?

Here in Tehran the capital of Iran, sometimes would be difficult to choose where you would like to go. The reason is, there are so many attractions all around that with having a limited time, almost would be very difficult to choose ! Here I had a choice between Sa'di Street, Pole Choubi street, Nofel Loshato street, Babi Sandz Street, Engelab Street, Ferdosi Square. Then I guess I chose the Ferdosi Square. Please don't ask me why ?

• Date: 5 May 2007
• Photographer: kombizz: gallery
• Location: Iran: gallery
• Tags: street sign wall kombizz tehran "sa'di_street" "pole_choubi_street" "nofel_loshato_street" "babi_sandz_street" "engelab_ street" "ferdosi_square" "traffic_sign" "pink_floyd"
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What is wrong here ?!

The magnificent palace complex at Persepolis (Takhte Jamshid) was founded by Darius the Great around 518 B.C. the wealth of the Persian empire was evident in all aspects of its construction. The splendor of Persepolis, however, was short-lived; the palaces were looted and burned by Alexander the Great in 331-330 B.C. The magnificent ruins of Persepolis lie at the foot of Kouh-e Rahmat, or "Mountain of Mercy," in the plain of Marv Dasht about 850 kilometers south of the present capital city of Tehran and about 50 kilometers north of Shiraz. The exact date of the founding of Persepolis is not known. It is assumed that Darius I began work on the platform and its structures between 518 and 516 B.C., visualizing Persepolis as a show place and the seat of his vast Achaemenian Empire. He proudly proclaimed his achievement; there is an excavated foundation inscription that reads, "And Ahuramazda was of such a mind, together with all the other gods, that this fortress (should) be built. And (so) I built it. And I built it secure and beautiful and adequate, just as I was intending to." . . , and THEN after so many years passed, in our modern history few countries mainly Western Countries plundered these priceless Historical Treasures and put them in their museums or sold to rich collectors!!!!??? As you would see in my image, that gentleman showed the line of cut done by a saw that made by few traitors. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ http://www.iran-heritage.org/interestgroups/bitterstory.htm http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Culture/plundering_culture.htm http://cpprot.te.verweg.com/2005-December/002104.html http://www.iran-heritage.org/aboutus/locations.htm http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-16/0511294962171507.htm http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2005/june2005/01-06.htm http://www.iranian.com/ala.html http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/printer_6590.shtml

• Date: 23 April 2007
• Photographer: kombizz: gallery
• Location: Iran: gallery
• Tags: museum persepolis kombizz shiraz darius fars ahuramazda zorostian traitor "takhte_jamshid" "darius_the_great" "518_b_c" "persian_empire" "alexander_the_great" "kouh_-_e_rahmat" "mountain_of_mercy" "marv_dasht" "achaemenian_empire" "historical_treasures" "rich_collector"
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50,000 Rials Bank Note (front)

The 50,000 Rials or 5,000 Tomans is a new bill that came in the hand of people few months ago. In the front bill has picture of the Ayatollah Khomeini and in it's back has Iran map outline with atomic symbol of electrons in orbit symbol. The watermark is Ayatollah Khomeini. The new note for 50,000 Rials, worth the equivalent of about $US5.40, will be the largest in circulation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_rial http://www.travellerspoint.com/photos/stream/size/L/photoID/

• Date: 14 April 2007
• Photographer: kombizz: gallery
• Location: Iran: gallery
• Tags: kombizz atomic watermark ayatollah_khomeini tomans rials note_bank bill electrons orbit symbol 50000_rials
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Norooz - Eid-e Shoma Mubarak

Norooz - Eid-e Shoma Mubarak In harmony with the rebirth of nature, the Iranian New Year Celebration, or NOROOZ, always begins on the first day of spring. Norooz ceremonies are symbolic representations of two ancient concepts - the End and the Rebirth; or Good and Evil. A few weeks before the New Year, Iranians clean and rearrange their homes. They make new clothes, bake pastries and germinate seeds as sign of renewal. The ceremonial cloth is set up in each household. Troubadours, referred to as Haji Firuz, disguise themselves with makeup and wear brightly colored outfits of satin. These Haji Firuz, singing and dancing, parade as a carnival through the streets with tambourines, kettle drums, and trumpets to spread good cheer and the news of the coming new year. The origins of Norooz are unknown, but they go back several thousand years predating the Achaemenian Dynasty. The ancient Iranians had a festival called "Farvardgan" which lasted ten days, and took place at the end of the solar year. It appears that this was a festival of sorrow and mourning, signifying the end of life while the festival of Norooz, at the beginning of spring signified rebirth, and was a time of great joy and celebration. ============================ I CONGRATULATE TO ALL IRANIAN PEOPLE ANYWHERE AROUND THIS MOTHER EARTH. ((Fara Residane Norooz-e Baztani Ra Be Shoma Va Khanevadeh Gerami Tabrik Gofteh Va Sali Pur As Salamati Va Shadkami Barayetan Arezoomandam.)) I HOPE IN THE NEW YEAR [ 1386 ], YOU WILL HAVE A BEAUTIFUL PEACEFUL LIFE WITH GOOD HEALTH AND LOTS OF SUCCESS. EID-e Shoma Mubarak Dom-e Shoma secharak!

• Date: 20 March 2007
• Photographer: kombizz: gallery
• Location: Iran: gallery
• Tags: evil carnival spring good kombizz norooz "eid_e_norooz" "norooz_-_eid_-_e_shoma_mubarak rebirth "haji_firuz" "achaemenian_dynasty" farvardgan "solar_year" farvardin
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S h i r a z

• Date: 14 March 2007
• Photographer: kombizz: gallery
• Location: Iran: gallery
• Tags: reflection kombizz shiraz fars mirage houz "traditional_house"
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Not for men !

So you are a woman and would like to go around the town very safely or do not want other passangers (men) touching your body with their bodies, then use the 'Women's Taxi'. Please note that I did NOT change the telephone number of this image, so if you would like to visit Iran, then simply call 1821. By the way I am NOT advertising them here, just would be an informative image for those ladies who love to travel with peace in their mind.

• Date: 14 March 2007
• Photographer: kombizz: gallery
• Location: Iran: gallery
• Tags: women lady woman kombizz tehran isfehan shiraz "women_taxi"
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I Know the Way You Can Get

I Know the Way You Can Get I know the way you can get When you have not had a drink of Love: Your face hardens, Your sweet muscles cramp. Children become concerned About a strange look that appears in your eyes Which even begins to worry your own mirror And nose. Squirrels and birds sense your sadness And call an important conference in a tall tree. They decide which secret code to chant To help your mind and soul. Even angels fear that brand of madness That arrays itself against the world And throws sharp stones and spears into The innocent And into one's self. O I know the way you can get If you have not been drinking Love: You might rip apart Every sentence your friends and teachers say, Looking for hidden clauses. You might weigh every word on a scale Like a dead fish. You might pull out a ruler to measure From every angle in your darkness The beautiful dimensions of a heart you once Trusted. I know the way you can get If you have not had a drink from Love's Hands. That is why all the Great Ones speak of The vital need To keep remembering God, So you will come to know and see Him As being so Playful And Wanting, Just Wanting to help. That is why Hafiz says: Bring your cup near me. For all I care about Is quenching your thirst for freedom! All a Sane man can ever care about Is giving Love!

• Date: 21 February 2007
• Photographer: kombizz: gallery
• Location: Iran: gallery
• Tags: kombizz
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Dr Ali Shariati's bed

It was given by his father-in-law. The bed was made in USSR. ---------------------------------------- "An Islamic Utopian: A Political Biography of Ali Shariati" (Paperback) by Ali Rahnema (Author) "In August 1941, when the Allies invaded Iran, Ali Shari'ati was eight years old..." (more) Key Phrases: median bloc, insurrectionary discourse, insurrectionary speeches, National Front, Abu Zarr, Ali Shari'ati (more...) ---------------------------------------- Ships from and sold by Amazon dot com 2 used & new available from $29.95

• Date: 5 February 2007
• Photographer: kombizz: gallery
• Location: Iran: gallery
• Tags: england france muslim kombizz dr ali shariati shah revolution tehran "dr_ali_shariati" "jamalzadeh_street" "ideologue_of_the_iranian_revol islam "western_culture" mazinan khurasan "aqa_muhammad_taqi_shariati" meshad mashad 1960 1964 "university_of_paris" sociology "louis_massignon" "jean_-_paul_sartre" "albert_camus" "franz_fanon" "mehdi_bazargan" clergy savak "secret_police" "husaniya_-_yi_irshad" tyranny
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Dr Ali Shariati's . . .

This is a teacher's tree of himself and his family. =)=(=)=(=)=(=)=(=)=(=(=)=(=)=(=)=(=)=( Ali Shariati (1933-1977) has been called the "Ideologue of the Iranian Revolution." His reinter pretation of Islam in modern sociological categories prepared the way for the Islamic revival that shook Iran in 1979, attracting many young Muslims who had been alienated both from the traditional clergy and from Western culture. ******************************** "I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's." -Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

• Date: 5 February 2007
• Photographer: kombizz: gallery
• Location: Iran: gallery
• Tags: england france muslim kombizz dr ali shariati shah revolution tehran "dr_ali_shariati" "jamalzadeh_street" "ideologue_of_the_iranian_revol islam "western_culture" mazinan khurasan "aqa_muhammad_taqi_shariati" meshad mashad 1960 1964 "university_of_paris" sociology "louis_massignon" "jean_-_paul_sartre" "albert_camus" "franz_fanon" "mehdi_bazargan" clergy savak "secret_police" "husaniya_-_yi_irshad" tyranny
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The House Keeper !

That house was belong to Dr Ali Shariati. He lived there for only 2 years there. Dr Ali Shariati's most important books and speeches are as follow: 1- Hajj (The Pilgrimage) 2- Where Shall We Begin? 3- Mission of a Free Thinker 4- The Free Man and Freedom of the Man 5- Extracton and Refrinement of Cultural Resources 6- Martyrdom (book) 7- Arise and Bear Witness 8- Ali 9- An approach to Understanding Islam 10- A Visage of Prophet Muhammad 11- A Glance of Tomorrow's History 12- Reflections of Humanity 13- A Manifestation of Self-Reconstruction and Reformation 14- Selection and/or Election 15- Norouz, Declaration of Iranian's Livelihood, Eternity 16- Expectations from the Muslim Woman 17- Horr (Battle of Karbala) 18- Abu-Dahr 19- Islamology 20- Red Shi'ism vs. Black Shi'ism 21- Jihad and Shahadat 22- Reflections of a Concerned Muslim on the Plight of Oppressed People 23- A Message to the Enlightened Thinkers 24- Art Awaiting the Saviour 25- Fatemeh is Fatemeh 26- The Philosophy of Supplication 27- Religion versus Religion 28- Man and Islam - see chapter "Modern Man and His Prisons" Works An Islamic Utopian: A Political Biography of Ali Shari'Ati. Ali Rahnema. ISBN 1-86064-118-0

• Date: 5 February 2007
• Photographer: kombizz: gallery
• Location: Iran: gallery
• Tags: england france muslim kombizz dr ali shariati shah revolution tehran "dr_ali_shariati" "jamalzadeh_street" "ideologue_of_the_iranian_revol islam "western_culture" mazinan khurasan "aqa_muhammad_taqi_shariati" meshad mashad 1960 1964 "university_of_paris" sociology "louis_massignon" "jean_-_paul_sartre" "albert_camus" "franz_fanon" "mehdi_bazargan" clergy savak "secret_police" "husaniya_-_yi_irshad" tyranny
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Dr Ali Shariati

Another day, I visited Dr Ali Shariati's home located on Jamalzadeh Street, in Tehran. Ali Shariati (1933-1977) has been called the "Ideologue of the Iranian Revolution." His reinter pretation of Islam in modern sociological categories prepared the way for the Islamic revival that shook Iran in 1979, attracting many young Muslims who had been alienated both from the traditional clergy and from Western culture. Shariati was born in Mazinan, Khurasan, a small village in Eastern Iran, in 1933 and was educated by his father, Aqa Muhammad Taqi Shariati. His youth was spent in Meshad where his father established the Center for the Propagation of Islamic Teachings. After high school he entered Teachers' Training College and became an active member of his father's center. He entered the University of Meshad in 1956, graduating in 1960. From 1960 to 1964 a state scholarship enabled him to study at the University of Paris, where he gained sociological insight and pursued Islamic studies with the renowned French scholar Louis Massignon. In France he was influenced by the radical Marxism of Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and Franz Fanon. Despite this influence he criticized these thinkers for their rejection of traditional religion and suggested that the only way the deprived nations could counterbalance Western imperialism was through the cultural identity preserved by religious traditions. While in France Shariati had joined with such other Iranian expatriates as Mehdi Bazargan and Bani Sadr who supported resistance to the shah of Iran. Not unexpectedly, he was imprisoned for a time on his return to Iran in 1964. Although turned down for a teaching position at the University of Teheran, he taught at a variety of high schools until a position became available at the University of Meshad. There he became a popular teacher, using an innovative method which expounded Islamic doctrine using a sociological approach. While some Muslim clergy criticized his lack of Islamic expertise, others sympathized with his attempt at modernization and helped him revise the content of his writings. His classes, however, threatened the government establishment, which had them suspended. In 1965 he established a center of Muslim religious teaching, the Husaniya-yi Irshad in Teheran, and he moved there in 1967. The choice of an institution dedicated to the martyrdom of Husayn in the struggles against the Ummayyads (660-750 A.D.) emphasized his commitment to the struggle against the tyranny of the shah's regime in Iran. His political influence was so great that the regime had him arrested again in 1973 and closed down the Husaniya, banning his works. Although released in 1975, his freedom was restricted. In June 1977 he travelled to England, where he died under circumstances that his supporters insisted suggested the involvement of SAVAK, the Iranian secret police.

• Date: 5 February 2007
• Photographer: kombizz: gallery
• Location: Iran: gallery
• Tags: england france muslim kombizz dr ali shariati shah revolution tehran "dr_ali_shariati" "jamalzadeh_street" "ideologue_of_the_iranian_revol islam "western_culture" mazinan khurasan "aqa_muhammad_taqi_shariati" meshad mashad 1960 1964 "university_of_paris" sociology "louis_massignon" "jean_-_paul_sartre" "albert_camus" "franz_fanon" "mehdi_bazargan" clergy savak "secret_police" "husaniya_-_yi_irshad" tyranny
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Dakheel Bastan

The people who has some problems, by making a tie of a green ribbon on that place ask God to help their problems. They call it "Dakheel Bastan". 00000000000000000000000000000000000 If you are interested in viewing more images of Muharram, you could check the following link: [url=http://www.usefilm.com/photographer.asp?ID=62738&PF=24694] here [/url]

• Date: 29 January 2007
• Photographer: kombizz: gallery
• Location: Iran: gallery
• Tags: muharram kombizz "imam_hussain_(pbuh)"
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Green Flags

Mourners for Imam Hussain (pbuh) carry green flags during the procession.

• Date: 29 January 2007
• Photographer: kombizz: gallery
• Location: Iran: gallery
• Tags: muharram kombizz "imam_hussain_(pbuh)"
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Ya Aba Abdullah Al-Hussain (Muharram 1428)

Who is Hussain (Peace be upon him/her, pbuh)? With the passing away of his brother Hassan (pbuh) in 50AH, Hussain (pbuh) became the leader of the household of the Holy Prophet (pbuh). He respected the agreement of peace signed by Hassan (pbuh) and Muawiya. He continued with the responsibility of looking after the religious needs of the people. An example of the depth of his perception can be seen in his beautiful du'a (supplication) on the day of Arafat, wherein he begins by explaining the qualities of Allah, saying: " (Oh Allah) How could an argument be given about Your Existence by a being whose total and complete existence is in need of you? When did you ever disappear so that you might need an evidence and logic to lead (the people) towards You? And when did You ever become away and distant so that your signs and effects made the people get in touch with you? Blind be the eye which does not see You (whereas) You are observing him. What did the one who missed You find? And what does the one who finds You lack? Certainly, the one who got pleased and inclined toward other than You, came to nothingness (failed)." On the other hand, we have Yazid, whose father (Muawiya) and grandfather had always tried to sabotage the mission of the Holy Prophet. Yazid was a pleasure-seeking person, given to wine drinking and playing with pets. The revolution of Hussain (pbuh) was an Islamic movement spearheaded. The principles and laws of Islam demanded that Hussain (pbuh) act to warn the Ummah of the evil situation which it was in, and to stand in the way of the deviating ruler. As Hussain (pbuh) himself remarked when he left Madina for the last time, "I am not rising (against Yazid) as an insolent or an arrogant person, or a mischief-monger or tyrant. I have risen (against Yazid) as I seek to reform the Ummah of my grandfather. I wish to bid the good and forbid the evil. For further info, you could look at the following link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imam_Hussain If you are interested in viewing more images about Muharram, the religious event, then you could check the following link: http://www.usefilm.com/photographer.asp?ID=62738&PF=24694

• Date: 29 January 2007
• Photographer: kombizz: gallery
• Location: Iran: gallery
• Tags: muharram kombizz "imam_hussain_(pbuh)" ashura
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Mourning Procession

This is part of mourning procession by Islamic Republic Military soldiers for Imam Hussain (pbuh). >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> If you are interested in viewing more images of Muharram, you could check the following link: http://www.usefilm.com/photographer.asp?ID=62738&PF=24694

• Date: 29 January 2007
• Photographer: kombizz: gallery
• Location: Iran: gallery
• Tags: muharram kombizz "imam_hussain_(pbuh)" ashura
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