TRADITION

No bahais please

We don't even need the Bahaism in iran. thank you sir

I feel the presence of Baha'is here???

We must replace Islam with Baha'iyat in Iran. Only then UNIVERSAL PEACE will be achieved.

What a waste

All this for some Arab who wanted to have power from another Arab and got killed for his idiocy of facing a larger force, and poor Iranian people are still forced to cry 1400 years later !
We will see how many people will "celebrate" these khorafat and imposed savage Islam, if we had a free country. Read history (not the IRI kind) and see how our ancestors fought Islam for 200 years after it was imposed on our people.

Anonymous-9999

Dorood be sharafet, vaghean yesery az ma Iraniha khejalatam nemikeshim, ye kam zahmatam be khodemon nemidim berim in tarikhe la masabe in keshvaro chand saat vaght bezarim bekhonim, har mozakhrafiro ke zadan to saremon yademon dadan, ghabol kardimo, hanozam ke hanoze romom kam nashode, gole gole dokhtaramon daran be keshvaraye Arabi forokhte mishan, hanoz zanaye nazanine on keshvar daran sangsar mishan, hanozam ye sery az ma hamon nokare Arab mondim motasefane. Vaghean 1400 sale in Islam khafe karde maro. Ebne Khaldon, yeky az bozorgtarin tarikh nevisan Mosalmane Arab, nazdik be 1000 sal pish darbareye hamleye Arab be Persia mige : ye melate ba fazilat va farzanegihaye zeyad(Persian) vaghty zire solteye yek farhange beyabani (Arab) gharar migyre, na inke tamame farzanegyhaye khodeshe be morore zaman az dast mide balke ye rozy az on farhange beyabaniham past tar mishe.

Hajeeh Fathmeh Khanom

We Iranians living abroad have found our real IDENTITY which is being IRANIAN. It seems you are still in the deep 1400 years old sleep. It is time to wake up and first change your Arab name and get a real iranian name and then start educating yourself about the fundation of Islam and how your Iranian people were coerced into Islam. You need to obtain a little savaad in order to meet the concept of humanity!!!.

I got a stomach ache from that

Those cute little girls, those wonderful colours amd then this morbid purpose for a 60year old ricket.

Thank you for the pictures all the same, they reconfirm quite a few things.

Enjoy a dying culture

Take a good look at the ladies wearing the traditional outfits because we are probably the last generation to enjoy them. Most women now days are replacing their traditional clothing with black chadoors. This is going on through out Iran.

Please educate yourself

It is sad that you Iranian living abroad had lost your identity. Islam reformed Judaism and Christianity and removed all the nonsense written in Old Testament and New testament. I think all you guys need is a little sense of humanity,humility,pride, and a little SAVADDDDDDD

This is what a religion is

This is what a religion is supposed to do for a community/society when mullahs, priests and rabbis are left out.

Looking at these pictures, I

Looking at these pictures, I can't help it but to say, shameful!

I was saddened by the neglect of the buildings, poverty, zombified religious sheeple...how sad and tragic for once a great nation.

Bichare Abyaneh

Bichare Abyaneh

pre islam

Many Iranian Muslims take great pride in their pre-Islamic roots. But it is the government that continues to despise the Zoroastrian faith. After the Islamic revolution, life has become an ordeal for the Zoroastrians, Christians, Jews and Baha’i as the post-revolution governments have shown close to no tolerance for other faiths.

wikipedia

With a unique reddish hue, the village is one of the oldest in Iran, attracting numerous native and foreign tourists year-round, especially during traditional feasts and ceremonies.

Abyaneh has been called an entrance to Iranian history. The local clothing, for example, is in a style of great antiquity. An Abyunaki woman typically wears a white long scarf (covering the shoulders and upper trunk) which has a colourful pattern and an under-knee skirt. Even the most immediate villages' women have different dress style so that one could tell if she is from Abyaneh or not. They have persistently maintained this traditional costume despite pressures from time to time by the government trying to change it.

Abyaneh also resisted conversion to Islam throughout the ages, and stayed Zoroastrian until it was forced to convert to Shi'ite Islam in the time of the Saffavid Shahs, as were many other villages and towns that had held onto the Zoroastrian religion until then.

Sanazi

Banoo Sanazi, are you joking? Hussein and Humanity? Hussein was against the humanity and he had the blood of wild animals like hyenas. Do you know how many Iranians were beheaded and killed by him and how many women were raped by him. Do you know that he considered the value of you women equal to the left testis of men. If you like I can provide you with more info about the butchers like Hussein, Ali and ....... You are insulting yourself and all free Iranians by sayin Ashura is the reflection of humanity. Please stop it.

"Suck it up"

Apprently ashure is the only collective social gathering in which the iranian men are allowed socially to cry in public with tears rolling down on his cheeks...without penalty... other than this you must "suck it all up" no mater how oppressive or sad the social situation has become for him...

of course there are few exceptions here and there to prove the rule,,,

Tran: a way too tough society on men...

"it sucks to be a man"

moosh bokhoreh

The little girl in slides 1 & 2 is so cute!

very nice pictures!

I absolutely loved the pictures, especially the dresses! And the little girl in the first picture is so cutesie!!

And for some reason, although I am not religious, I like the  commemoration of ashura! This event reflects one's communion with God, Hossein and humanity!

To, Gij o Vij, Last group to convert to Islam

My understanding is that people from abyaneh were some of the last groups of Iranians converted to Islam. They were Zoroastrians up until 200 years ago. The conversion was not voluntary.

A Marvelouse Festival

Splendid community of beautiful people in beautiful Iran.

Hossein

surprisingly pleasant ashoura pictures

I loved the blue of the sky, the colorful dresses and flowery head scarves of the women and even the halva in a cone!
Next time I am in Iran I am definitely visiting Abyaneh...
Thank you for the pictures.
IRANdokht

Panah bar Khoda.....

Man hamishe fakr mikardam ke madomeh Abyaneh Zartoushti hastand??????

Iraj khaneh bache Arabestaneh Saudi

Did Iranians accept Islam with open Arms? You are very misinformed. Do some reading before writing cherto O pert. Iranians were coerced firts by Arabs into backward Islam then by Turks into Shia religion. If Islam has some Aberoo is just because of us Iranians!!!!!!.

"Malmoos"

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Things You Never Forget

Instead of
Spoon feeding me
With clear cut answer
She gives me an incomplete design...
A tentative map...
Suggestion...
Hints...
Mystical winking...
A thought full pause...
A little sweet smile decorating her eyes...
And when I put together
All the sings and signals together
And find the answer on my own
This time the discovery
Sinks all the way to the bottom of my mind
Like a stone going down straight
To hit and stay at the bottom of ocean
For complete remembering
Yes, this is the way
To remember God during the gardening
In tangible way
Like holding the Conch statue at hand for assurance
When too busy uprooting the weeds

Hassan Danesh

My beautiful Iran

ایران کشوری زیباست با فرهنگی‌ غنی. سرزمین من مجموعه ادب و سنتهای مختلف است.

اسلام ر ا ایرانیان با تعریف خودشان قبول کردند و به آن زیبایی‌ بخشیدند. عشورا یکی‌ از مراسمی است که کاملا ایرانیست و ریشه در دستنهیه اساطیری ایران دارد، که یکی‌ از اناه داستان سیاوش می‌باشد. این به این معنی‌ نیست که عشورا داستان است، بلکه ایرانیان به یک اتفاق جلوه ویژه دادند و آنرا زیبا بین کردند. شعرهای محتشم کاشانی از جمله کارهای ایرانیان می‌باشد. حالا این اولین نظر است. نگاه کنید به بقیه نظرها که بعد از این می‌‌آید. فحش و ناسزا به بنده و عکس‌های قمه زدن و ویدئو در یو توب برایه مسخره کردن آن چه که مردم به آان اعتقاد دارند