Safa Qom
Shohada Sq. Qom, Iran
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A flighting visit to Qom
... by someone else who escorted us all the way inside the building. We were taken to the tourist centre, which I think was made more for Muslim pilgrims from non-Farsi speaking countries, but even though we told them we were catholic (lie) they still made us feel very welcome in the broken English that was spoken.
We were then given a brief tour by one of the younger guys who was studying religion in Qom. He took us to the actual shrine, where we had to take our shoes ...
Mammouth city
... s that the Shah tortured revolutionaries in order to gain information from them while also invoking terror into the public’s minds. The museum was interesting, though our tour was spoken in Farsi, so that made things somewhat unintelligible for us. The prison itself also suggested some rather heavy hints of propaganda, even an introductory video at the start which was in English mentioned something about America and Israel and how they are not democracies, though I will come ...
Desert Camping south of Tehran
Lu returned from a trip to Tehran very early during the morning with bad news from the Pakistan embassy that they couldn't do any more to help than what had already been done, so for the moment we would continue as per the itinerary, and make the call on bypassing the country in Yazd.
We left Masuleh at 8am for a long drive day, and ...
The Mothership
If there is an intellectal and spiritual home of Iran's theocratic government then Qom is it.
Set up as a rival to the other Sh'ia seat of high religious though and practice in Najaf, Qom is Iran's Vatican City.
Undoubtedly, its main shrine to Fatimeh ...
Qom
... with rage at how the women are treated. You can't go into the shrine in Qom as an unaccompanied woman, so the guide had to request permission from a "host" to meet us at the entrance to the shrine and escort us. Definitely an eye-opening experience. ...
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