An Armenian Genocide memorial was inaugurated in Ealing in September. In attendance were Turkish nationalists mocking the victims and shouting racial abuse. 10 days later the memorial has already been vandalised.

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Photo of Iranian women arrested by morality police for not wearing proper hijabs. Since the 1979 revolution it has been mandatory for women to wear the hijab in Iran. On 12 July there will be a nationwide protest against the hijab.

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Masuleh, Iran. Unusual village where streets are on top of people's roofs.

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Iranian women during the revolution celebrating the news of the Shah leaving Iran into exile, 1979. [2048x1288]

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Nahavand Castle in Nahavand, Iran. Built during the Sassanian era (224–651 AD), it was demolished in the late 1800s because the Shah believed there was treasure hidden underneath.

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This is what most of Tehran, Iran looks like. Just a densely populated sea of concrete.

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Most of Shiraz's historic neighbourhoods are going to be demolished to expand the Shah Cheragh shrine. Residents will soon be evicted. Regime says this is to make Shiraz the largest pilgrimage site in Middle East.

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Aerial view of Yerevan, Armenia

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Aerial photo of Yerevan, Armenia. The city was designed in the early 20th c. by Alexander Tamanian as a compact circle where everything would be within walking distance.

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Modern skyscrapers overlooking an old Parsi colony

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Five-storey pavilion in Bandar-e Anzali, Iran overlooking the Caspian Sea. It was a summer retreat belonging to Iran's royal family. Demolished in 1885.

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Armenians in Artsakh faced a 9 month blockade by Azerbaijan resulting in starvation. Biggest organization of Jewish rabbis in Europe decides to slam Armenia and accuse them of Holocaust denial for likening the starvation to genocide.

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Interesting chart showing the countries top-tier AI scientists come from, and where they work today. Russia is nowhere in site, in MENA only Iran and Israel matter, and the USA is still dominating.

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Mumbai, India - Skyscrapers overlooking social housing for Parsis

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This is from Obama's new book A Promised Land. Essentially describes Sarah Palin as a harbinger of Trumpism as a political style.

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A Parsi family photographed in the mid-1930s at the Hamilton Studios, Bombay

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Twitter having a meltdown over hot Iranian girls

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Photo of Iranian women arrested by morality police for not wearing proper hijabs. Since the 1979 revolution it has been mandatory for women to wear the hijab in Iran. On 12 July there will be a nationwide protest against the hijab.

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Azerbaijani activist and blogger: I will not only behead the Armenians, but cut them into pieces and feed them to wolves

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OTI Szekhaz, the first skyscraper in Budapest. Due to safety regulations, the top was demolished in 1969.

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The Kiani Crown was the traditional coronation crown of the Persian monarchy from 1796 until 1926. Worn here by Mozaffar od-Din Shah. [532x703]

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Shiraz, Iran's 5th largest city

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It's depressing that we have to fight so hard just to enjoy life's simple pleasures and live like normal people, as Iranians lived pre-1979

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This is what Shushi looked like before the 1920 anti-Armenian pogrom where Tatars destroyed the city and massacred the Armenians. The Ghazanchetsots Cathedral can be seen in the photo.

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Very classy response to Samir Mammadov, the shameless Azerbaijani politician gloating about stealing the harvests of Armenian farmers from the ethnically cleansed village of Togh in Artsakh

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The Baha'i temple in the Chicago suburb of Wilmette, IL. It combines traditional Persian architecture with modern Western design. Completed in the 1940s, it's the oldest surviving Baha'i temple in the world.

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This is a textbook teaching English in Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijani regime never misses an opportunity to indoctrinate its children.

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Lobbyists like Michael Doran and Brenda Shaffer openly want Armenia as a state eliminated. They make up facts as they go along to justify their evil and irrational views.

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Does anyone know what the outlined buildings are called and what street they are on? Thanks if you can help

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Armenians in Kuty, Poland (1930). Kuty had the highest concentration of Armenians in Poland, and was the only town where this medieval Armenian diaspora still spoke Armenian. In 1944 hundreds of Armenians and Poles in Kuty were massacred by Ukrainian nationalists and the town is now in Ukraine.

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Fuad Alakbarov, an Azeri human rights activist and political commentator wants Armenian cultural heritage sites to be demolished when Azerbaijan invades Armenian cities. Azerbaijan has almost full backing from Azeri liberals and human rights activists to commit atrocities and cultural genocide.

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One of the most beautiful of all ancient scripts: The Avestan script was developed during the Sasanian era to write Zoroastrian scripture

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Soner Cagaptay posts link to Turkish government website commemorating various genocides. When someone mentions the Armenian Genocide is missing, his responses are sickening. He also suggests genocide label is Soviet propaganda. This is what Turkey's most esteemed scholars are like.

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Ceiling of an old bathhouse in Mashhad, Iran displaying men riding bicycles, driving cars and listening to gramophones

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Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (left), wife of the Shah of Iran. In the centre are the Shah's sisters, princesses Ashraf, Shams, Hamdamsaltaneh and Fatemeh. Far right is Soraya's mother. [Tehran, 1955]

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Just a reminder: The GDP of Iran in 1978 vs 2017 compared to South Korea and Turkey

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Zahra Amir Ebrahimi has won Best Actress Award at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival for her role in Iranian movie Holy Spider

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Bruno Macaes is a pseudointellectual racist with a history of glossing over Turkish crimes against Armenians. His wife is a Vatan Partisi member, an ultranationalist Turkish party founded by fascist Dogu Perincek. He thinks the Ottoman millet system was better than liberalism at managing minorities.

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Old Armenian rowhouses in Yerevan. Taken from Instagram stories @armenocontempo

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A house in Tonekabon, Mazandaran built in 1974 by Iraj Yamin-Esfandiary using traditional Mazandarani architecture. I wish Iranian architects today had some respect for the local heritage. Shomal would be more beautiful if developers/architects tried to continue this architectural heritage.

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Robert Kardashian with his fiance and third cousin Denice Shakarian Halicki in 1995. If they had a daughter, I really wonder what she'd look like or how famous she'd be.

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What do you think of these new constructions in Yerevan?

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On this day 43 years ago, Khomeini returned to Iran. Photo is of young Iranians celebrating the success of the revolution, 1979.

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It is being reported that Sepideh Rashno was taken to Taleghani Hospital due to internal bleeding from a blow to her abdomen while in custody. Her forced confession on TV also shows injuries to her eyes. She's been in jail since her viral video.

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Iranian women celebrating the victory of the Islamic Revolution after the Shah leaves the country, 1979

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Armenian women listening to a sermon at the funeral of an Armenian archbishop in Tehran, Persia (1910)

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Dadar Parsi Colony has really good urbanism

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Ilham Aliyev addresses his nation to justify the ethnic cleansing of Armenians by claiming they are 19th century invaders from Iran. His citizens are unhappy with this statement because actually Iran never existed.

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Zoroastrian fire temple in Bombay, 1906

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Photo of what I think is Aghjots Vank, also known as Saint Stephen Monastery of Goght. Built in the 1200s.

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Kara Kardashian (their cousin) wishes Kanye a happy birthday

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Iranians are the largest nationality of undocumented migrants crossing the sea on small boats to enter Britain

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This is from a video that appeared on Azerbaijani news station. It features the Armenian and LGBT flags side by side, Kim Kardashian with a black dildo, and an Armenian man with a big nose.

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Birth and fertility data from 2021 and 2022. Armenia has declined slightly.

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Nahavand Castle in Nahavand, Iran. Built during the Sassanian era (224–651 AD), it was demolished in the late 1800s because Naser al-Din Shah believed there was treasure hidden underneath.

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The GDP of Iran in 1978 vs 2017 compared to South Korea and Turkey

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Painting of the Tekyeh Dowlat. Completed in 1868, it was Iran's largest theatre and a masterpiece of Persian architecture. Many western visitors believed it surpassed Europe's opera houses in beauty. It was demolished in 1946 and replaced with an ugly bank building.

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Standing outside Lamiz Coffee in Tehran

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Sultan Ghani, nephew of president Ashraf Ghani just posted this on Instagram. Son of Hashmat Ghani Ahmadzai.

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Aristocratic Persian woman with her slave in Kermanshah

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If Britney Spears was Persian

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Do you think the Bohra uniform was better/smarter in the old days?

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What is your opinion on the Dawoodi Bohra community? They are also Ismailis from Gujarat.

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Which style of building do you prefer in Tehran? The brick house on the right used to be a common sight in Tehran, but they're being replaced with buildings like on the left.

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Urban planning in Tehran before the revolution (left) and after the revolution (right)

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Derya Taskin, former deputy mayor of Paterson, NJ official statement condemning U.S. recognition of the Armenian Genocide. She has been one of the biggest lobbyists for genocide denial and organized events to harass Armenians on Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.

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A 1906 photo of a Zoroastrian Parsi woman praying. It's one of my favourite photos. Does anyone know how to get a copy without the Alamy imprint on it?

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Lahav Harkov, an American immigrant to Israel, thinks Palestinian attachment to their land is a myth. Justifies ethnic cleansing of Palestinians because American Jews have a longer history in Palestine than Palestinians.

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In the 1980s Khomeini gave religious justification for nose jobs and other cosmetic surgeries in Iran: God is beautiful and loves beauty.

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Iran's borders changed last year as Artsakh was lost to Azerbaijan. Iran's border could possibly change again b/c Azeri forces have taken over parts of Armenia's Syunik province (coloured green). Baku has long stated Syunik is theirs. Big geopolitical consequences if Iran-Armenia border is lost.

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Pastor WN Otwell of Heritage Baptist Church (in Mount Enterprise, TX) protesting the funeral of Matthew Shepard. The young woman was asking why he chose a murdered man's funeral to spread his anti-gay message.

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Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, former Queen of Iran (1950s)

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Old photo of family in Shirazi clothing

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Jean Chardin, a Frenchman that travelled extensively in 17th c. Safavid Persia wrote this about the government, and the differences between the Zoroastrian and Islamic ethic

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Jean Chardin, a Frenchman that travelled and lived in 17th c. Safavid Persia for years wrote this about the government, and the differences between the Zoroastrian and Islamic ethic

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One of the most beautiful things about Tehran (imo) is the abundance of very tall and mature trees that line the streets

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Goldsmiths Islamic Society responds to the Maryam Namazie controversy

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Ceiling of a bathhouse in Mashhad displaying men riding bikes, driving cars and listening to gramophones. How cool is this?

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Indoor swimming pool inside the abandoned mid-century modern palace of Princess Shams

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Jinnah's daughter on her wedding day with Parsi husband outside church (Bombay, 1931)

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TIL there's a large and imposing office block behind Golestan Palace that ruins its view

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Armenian church in Naples, Italy which dates back to 1572

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The Qajars weren't all bad. In the early 1800s Iran's state revenues were equal to the Ottoman Empire, despite being half its size. It was proportionally higher than British-ruled India. Their terrible reputation is not 100% warranted.

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Support for Brexit differed by race, ethnicity and religion

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Average Mathematics score by surname in India

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