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What are the families like in Iran?
Family structure in Iran Most families are headed by the oldest male, with formal authority descending through other males by age. The father is head of the family and is expected to protect and provide for the family. Mothers are expected to care for children and the household.
What is the lifestyle like in Iran?
Life is a struggle for many Iranians and often bears little resemblance to the lives lived by their parents and grandparents. The majority of Iran’s urban dwellers live in flats, and in major cities homes are rapidly being replaced with apartment blocks.
How is dating in Iran?
Dating & Relationship in Iran Nowadays Iranian couples are comfortable openly dating. Even in some Iranian family the partner (girlfriend or boyfriend) is invited to family events and ceremonies.
Is YouTube available in Iran?
As of September 2012, countries with standing national bans on YouTube include China, Iran, Syria, and Turkmenistan. Due to disputes between GEMA and YouTube over royalties, many videos featuring copyrighted songs were inaccessible in Germany.
Can a woman divorce a man in Iran?
Divorce: A woman could only get a divorce in court with a judge’s order, while a man could get divorce by declaring it verbally. In 2002, the parliament amended the law to allow a woman to divorce her husband if he were imprisoned, mentally ill, physically abusive or an addict.
What is life like in everyday life in Iran?
Like many countries, oppression and violence are a reality of everyday life, but overall Iran is a country striving to find a middle ground between staunch traditionalism and modern sensibilities, most notably in the area of Tehran, Iran’s cultural and industrial capital.
What’s the life like for an unmarried person in Iran?
Living alone is extremely unusual and unmarried children usually only leave home to attend university in another town or for work. Although the young people of Iran long for independence and their own space, just like their Western counterparts, there is not much cultural precedence for this. Those who do live alone – mostly men – are pitied.
What kind of people live in Tehran Iran?
The majority of the people of Tehran are Persian-speaking people, and roughly 99% of the population understand and speak Persian; but there are also large populations of other Iranian ethnicities in the city such as Azerbaijanis, Armenians, Lurs, and Kurds who speak Persian as their second language.
Which is the best book about life in Iran?
But photographer Newsha Tavakolian’s book, “Blank Pages of an Iranian Photo Album” ( Kehrer Verlag, 2015), aims to give us a peek at the ordinary lives of middle-class Iranians. Tavakolian followed nine Iranians from her own generation with the goal of compiling a portrait of middle-class life in Iran. Support our journalism.