IRAN

اتفاقا اختر نیک / پندار خانوم راست میگه!

Joking aside, , Never mind the architecture. Here we have 32 years after a revolution which was supposed to address the imbalance in wealth between rich and poor, amongst other noble causes,  a division between rich and poor in our country, previously unimaginable. On one hand the murdering thieving islamists or their carpet beggers living in lap of luxury, on the other hand, the vast majority of Iranians living either under abject poverty or struggling to make the ends meet.

Yes, this is social justice in the republic of thieves, murderers and terrorists.

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."

در پی ناله ها و

در پی ناله ها و شکایات مردم به خدا در رابطه با وضع کنونی ایران خدا اعلام کرد : به من گیر ندین منم مثل شما منتظر ظهور امام زمانم

from a blogger in Iran:

از هر 2 تا تبلیغ تلویزیون یکی تبلیغ بانکه ، ولی مردم هر روز فقیر تر میشند

از هر 2 روز هفته یکیش تعطیله اما باز مردم افسرده تر میشند
از هر 2 نفر توی خیابون یه نفر لیسانس داره اما باز مردم بیکار تر میشند
از هر 2 تا خونه یکیش نوسازه اما مردم باز بی خانمان تر میشند
از هر 2 نفر یکی دماغش رو عمل کرده اما باز قیافه ها زیبا نمیشند
...از هر 2 نفر یکی حاجی شده اما باز مردم بی خدا تر ...

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عجب دور و زمانه یی شده،ترّقی‌ و پیشرفت که هیچْ...فقر و اندوه که بیدادْ..دزدی و قساوت فراوانْ..جنایت و تجاوز کُرور کرور..بی‌ عَدلی و نا حقّی‌ نَفَر نفر.. خَلقِ  آبرو دارِ  ایرانی درگیرِ  چه چیز‌ها که نَشده ،چشم رو هم چشمی بیداد می‌‌کند،حسادت شده ورزش مّلی‌ و در حَسَد ورزیدنْ از همدیگر پیشی‌ گرفته و بُخل‌ها وَرزیم...این با آن ایرانی که ما می‌‌شناسیم عَمیقاً تفاوت دارد،عجب ایرانی فریبِ  حواّسِ  خود خُورد و در دامِ  اَهریمنْ افتاد و مملکتْ را ویران !

چه گویند آنان که رفتند و چه‌ها گویند آنان که آیَند .

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More luxury houses in Iran on this you-tube video:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=BavDBvcqzqU

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Dear Uncle didn't mean to be too critical but, it looks like I'm not the only one. The architecture of these 'Mac Mansions' just suck. No element of the region and its architecture and style, no environmental sensitivities, just cookie cutter shitte, maybe except one or two. Indeedly, money doesn't mean taste. reminds me of this observation by Karl, cheers

کارل مارکس در سال 1844 نوشت:

حدود قدرت پول ، حدود قدرت من است؛ويژه گی ها و قدرت های ذاتی من است:
ويژه گی ها و قدرت های صاحب آن.بنا بر اين آن چه که هستم و آن چه که قادر
به انجام دادنش هستم ابدا بر اساس فرديت من تعيين نمی شود.زشت هستم اما می
توانم برای خود زيباترين زنان را بخرم. بنا بر اين زشت نيستم؛ زيرا اثر
زشتی ، قدرت بازدارنده ی آن ،با پول خنثا می شود. آدم رذل ، دغل، بی همه
چيز و سفيه هستم اما پول و طبعا صاحب آن عزت و احترام دارد. پول مرا از
زحمت دغل کاری نجات می دهد بنا بر اين فرض بر اين است که آدم درست کاری
هستم.آدم سفيه هستم اما اگر پول عقل کل همه ی چيزهاست ؛ آن وقت چه طور
صاحبش سفيه است؟ 

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i like this mansions. shomal is very pretty   

FREE IRAN

Meh...

Most of those homes are architectual monstrosities. I wonder if the same architect is responsible for the Tehrangeles version of the same crap:

//uglypersianhouses.com/

Funny how the elite in Iran hate Sheytan e- Borzorg, yet they clearly like the idea of private, gated communities where they can be blissfully isolated from the struggling plebes thew screw over. Wonder where they got that idea from...??

And no...I'm not jealous or envy these home-owers. I would rather live in a smaller, tastefully designed place than something that reeks of cheap perfume. 

Being rich doesn’t mean you have taste.

Except one or two, this is one set of ugly private homes I have ever seen. Can any body tell what style of architecture do you call this? They like heavy roofs and they don’t believe in gutter, the Iron bar windows make them like jail . Look like they went through punch of architectural magazine and picked what they liked and put it together. 

Alborz- Call For Attention, I like that name for style these homes.

I don't mean to be disrespect to all Iranian Architect. 

You guys are just jealous!

Ali and Hamsade jaans, no one can be rich unless he has kicked out someone out of his house or paid his dues by being in cahoots with IRI (IRI oh IRI :-) abusing human rights?!  Come on!

No one can become a doctor or engineer or a businessman and end up rich in Iran?  Well you and I are now established in US and won't be thinking of going back or if we do we won't strike it rich, unless we have an idea.

The guy who started parsonline.com went to school in Boston and then after working there for a while went back and opened the largest internet provider in Iran.  There are other examples, some went back to open nice restaurants.  These are just people who tried life in USA and went back and made it rich.  There were others who were deported or went back and didn't amount to anything as well!

Also, many started in Iran itself and never left Iran, unlike you and I.  You know how much successful doctors charge in their private practice? How much a civil engineer for one of these large towers gets paid?  How much someone in Tehran's stock market can make?  How much an owner of chicken farms or cattle market or other agricultural goods make?

We can take this discussion on an on and insert all kinds of issues into it but the fact remains that you can strike it rich in Iran and do it on your own without being one of them.

You and I haven't made it rich in the land of opportunities and the heart of capitalism but many have done so.  Many just bought and sold few houses or few stocks in the stock market boom and didn't stay in it to burn, and voila!  

Everything is sacred

There are hundreds of

There are hundreds of exclusive communites like this one throughout Iran and Tehran. The trick is you need to be a Khodi and connected with Sepah or Rafi's faction.

Quiet admiration...

... in architecture has been replaced by loud shouts that call for attention - much like everything else in our society.

The house in 84 is the only one that looks somewhat well proportioned and a not a patchwork of Greek, Ottoman and other motifs. 

Others that I liked were houses in 6 and 36.

Alborz

Esfand jaan

I am not sure about the 'same thing'.

Most of us, poor people, in the West, do not look at Bill Gates' mansion, and think:" What a bastard! I hope the revolution comes, so we can kick him out of his house, and take all his money!"

Instead, we think:" What smart ideas he must have come up with. I hope one of my idiotic ideas blosoms one of these days, and I can buy the house next to his!"

You know any poor person, in Iran, whom we can ask for their perspective?

"Waht do they do to afford such houses"?

Ali P jan the answer is very easy:

They have a healthy partnership with the mullahs and Pasdars.

i agree with fidelio and

i agree with fidelio and disagree with esfand.  some of these houses are just plain tacky (#14,#27, #29), seem to be defective (is the roof in #23 crooked?)¸or the design seem to have no rhyme and reason.  the pre-condition to be very rich in iran is not quite the same as in the u.s.  my friend who has worked for many reputable organization in the world and is now a well-published professor in u of tehran is making 2 million tomans a month.  a ‘maflook’ cabbie makes 1.5 million.  why he does it? because he wants to live in iran and his parents can supplement his income to be able to live there.  i live comfortably in this country and couldn’t have a pot to piss in iran because i have no connections.  huge difference.  i’ve seen some of the aghazadehs with no education that own some of these mcmansions in kelardasht.  and please don’t give me examples of paris hilton to compare the aghazadehs  and the very rich in iran with the rich brats in this country.  it’s the rule in iran to be rich and connected.

چرا تشیف نیاوردید داخل؟

تا در خونه امدیت عکس بگیریت، یه توکِ پا هم میامدید داخل، یه چی‌ بخوریم

Seriously though, one wonders if such wealth in Iran can be accumulated thru an honest & moral practices? Furthermore, with all the poverty in Iran, how do they feel living in such glamorous way.

Perhaps we all know the answer

Mehrdad

some rich people must be living in these homes

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Ali jaan what do u do in US 2 b able 2 afford these homes? Same.

Everything is sacred

Most are pretty Tacky and Gaudy

with a few exceptions these remind me of the worst of the US McMansions that are popular with Nouveeau Riche types like the Real Housewives of NJ.

blah. no taste but lots of money.

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Gorgeous mansions with beautiful landscape design! Amazing!

What do they do??

I believe some rich- even filthy rich- deserve what they own, in the West, or in Iran, or anywhere.

What do you do in Iran, to be able to afford homes like this?

Nice Roofs

Iran has very talented architects.

Great job.

هر که آمد عمارتي نو ساخت

رفت و منزل به ديگري پرداخت

سعدی علیه الرحمه

Very beautiful

Homes.  Shows that Persian-Iranians are successful enough to own and live in nice houses.  More power to them.

Nice pictures. You can also buy luxury condos in Motel Ghoo!

They're building 3 luxury towers in Salman Shahr (formerly Motel Ghoo ;-) and you can find some photos in their link below:

//www.medghoo.com/english.html

The architectural rendition on how it shows from the side of the road is nowhere near the reality on the ground!  They are building these 3 massive towers right next to the 2 or 3 lane road that goes through shomal by the sea.

You can also click and see some of the photos.  Units are still available but I forgot to call and find out how much!  A lot of Arabs from other Middle Eastern countries have bought a lot of units and will be moving in!  There goes the neighborhood! 

Everything is sacred

An unfinished revolution...

I remember that SAVAK forced Khorram, the well-known entrepreneur, to stop the construction of a mansion in Sharharah, Tehran; he had to come up with a fabricated story that he intended to present it to the Crown Prince for his next birthday gift in order to survive the brutality of the Pahlavis ... The site remained unfinished all the way into IRI's time...and then we thought because of the revolution there would be no Khorrams, anymore...Pfffftttttttt...