19 Ways You’ve Been Lied to

#1. The capital city is basically a ruin.

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Tehran’s skyline is truly mediocre.

#2. Everyone lives in a mud shack.

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The Tabatabaei house in Kashan is a pretty miserable place to while away your days.

#3. The villages are pretty much what you’d find anywhere else.

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If Palangan village, on the border with Iraq, looks mildly impressive, it’s just because of the lighting. Nothing to do with the near-vertical positioning of the houses.

 #4. The architecture is plain and lackluster.

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Why would anyone want to visit the Nasir al-Mulk Mosque in Shiraz?

#5. Meh.

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Oh Shiraz, is this the best you can do?

#6. The women are oppressed and downtrodden.

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She looks like she needs someone to liberate her.

#7. Iranians are a grumpy, pool-party-hating bunch.

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I would hate to be hanging out with this boring group.

#8. The food is unpalatable and bland.

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I wouldn’t touch that stuff with a barge pole.

#9. There is no ancient history to this place.

Big deal. Every country has at least one 6th century BC Achaemenid Empire burial site.

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