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Forty years after the Islamic Revolution iran is a country torn between the conservative influence of the clerics and a desire for change. In tone line and find out whats going on in the world in a matter of minutes you can expect the Younger Generation to stand still young people will move on and if it quickly. Many are pushing back against the country strict social and cultural laws on the isle theres a new law that says we can only sing in the persian but since we started out weve always aim to be international and our struggle. And many are testing their own limits in their bid for greater freedom. This is the first time weve done an off road tour that im going into the forest and spending the night away from home its great to have a potentially wealthy country struggling with powerful outside enemies and its own domestic problems. Young with iran is known to be rich in Natural Resources but the government cant even manage one island in a. Land of contradictions at once unsettling and breathtakingly beautiful. Mamma granites have a bitter skin but theyre sweet inside just like iran with you dont. We begin our journey in the capital tehran. Home to a population of thirteen million its the beating heart of the country. Were meeting a Fashion Designer Whose Mission is to challenge irans strict islamic dress code. Needed but also you have admitted that the moves in the way people dress is like a Living Museum a marriage to the country that long after the Islamic Revolution there were only four colors black brown dark blue and grey go his way out of the. New thousand five hundred years ago iranians want to give guests colorful fabrics as gifts. But today our hands are tied. In islam black is actually seen as an ugly nasty unpopular color. If they think it shouldnt actually. You know. I dont know how it came to this at all. Melissa moneys aim is to return color to the streets of iran she scours the country collecting antique fabrics and reworks them as fresh and modern outfits. Money is the ground in fashion a celebrity. But even though she has an ambitious agenda shes also careful not to go too far. So her seamstresses take their headscarves off when theyre indoors in front of the camera so money keeps her head covered she doesnt want any trouble with the authorities. Now we are going to the parliament and the parliament is the place. Part of the end of the yes but i. Dont think we. Should. We accompany the designer on her weekly shopping trip to one of the citys main bazaars. I. Command. I came back to tehran from london before the Islamic Revolution in one nine hundred seventy nine and at first i worked for a bank. There was a doorman. Every morning he tipped his hat when we arrived and greet us very respectfully. After the revolution he ordered us women to stay in our rooms and work together. Back then i decided never to be employed somewhere but rather to be my own boss so that was a political story wasnt it but not really it was just a past not an actor right this was. The conflict over Irans Nuclear program has left the country isolated. U. S. Sanctions against tehran affect everyone the value of the iranian ryall against the dollar continues to decline making imported goods more expensive. Prices are exploding on. Intimate friday than i would i say medals a few weeks ago for six cents now they cost eighty cents. I hardly have any customers left women used to come to me and pay the equivalent of seven hundred euros for an evening gown i mean i dont have customers like that anymore and the poor vendors here they have even bigger problems. On the little book. For her latest project milo some money has partnered with a Major Management consultancy. Her glossy fashion magazine lotus is now published in english as well as persian. Its sold in iran and a number of select cities worldwide. Some money is chief editor her backer has an International Client base. But this particular one i like it because its about the culture of five star that is a new thing and this wonderful lady whos a pioneer in fashion shes the first designer to have a run you know. Catwalk a fashion show and you want permits by the government. Thats the money spent months negotiating with the authorities for permission to publish your designs in a magazine on sale overseas islamic fashion. Clothes to comply with standards of modest dress. Now is it twenty year is. What color and that. Of course. But the fight hasnt been won yet. Is a money recently signed a contract with an airline to design the flight attendants outfits elegant but by no means figure defining. The design or complains that shes not allowed to send models down a runway thats even allowed in afghanistan she says. Theres amicable. I would be so happy if i had an opportunity to present my work in public like designers all over the world to organize completely normal runway shows so that the fashion world can get to know my work. So even if hundreds of women see me as successful personally i have no sense of satisfaction. Yet that. Small step by small step mom has a money is fighting for reform not by opposing the regime but by securing its permission to show her work. The Younger Generation in iran has less patience they abide by the rules but they find ways of carving out small slices of their own personal freedom. We meet up with some young iranians in no shah on the southern shore of the caspian sea some two hundred kilometers north of tehran. Seven years ago i decided to start saving up to buy my own car when i worked in a cafe from nine in the morning until eleven in the evening then id work in a garage making car headlamps until four in the morning. Look through the hole through the local roll through google and. Look. Through all your other means i came across these groups of people on instagram who do off roading i was really intrigued and started thinking about doing it myself there wasnt Anyone Around here that i knew of organizing off road adventures. He did you know the kathleen of the whole would be. Jump shed and his girlfriend should i havent been together long they invite us along on one of their off road clubs tours and give us permission to film. Its brave of them to go on camera and for shy guy to let herself be filmed without a headscarf. Look i think the wall about four young people getting to know each other with whether theyre in a lot of or just with friends this is a perfect spot it. Was going to. Think that i dont cheat and i usually meet up and go for a drive. Sometimes just for fifteen minutes or half an hour. Every two weeks we in a cafe. Now and then we meet more regularly but weve never spent more than two hours together and both thought at that would be only. One among quote shama mosquitoes is a student city and popular with tourists fleeing the stress of tehran. Im here in the north the climate is my own the air fresh and the view of the mountain forests are spectacular. And. The club members have invested a lot of money in their off road vehicles to them off roading is more than a hobby its a taste of freedom. They get together once or twice a month and head out to the countryside. Chaudhary ex father is considered a martyr he died of wounds sustained in the iran iraq war. Her mother and her brothers are strict with her they dont know that shes spending the weekend with her boyfriend. I am just glad that im distressed i once told my brother the truth about where i was going but it was no good. Im forced to lie. Of course im worried ill be found out. But you know normal everyday life is no fun. The worry makes list all the more exciting it makes me enjoy the trip all the more. Feeling like you need to be secretive when you want to have a good time is actually cool. This is the first time she has come on a trip with me so i want to be as great as possible the first trip is important i want the First Impression to be good if. Its still a shark. Boy if youre going to get. All these young people were born after the Islamic Revolution theyve never known another iran theyre well educated and many of them have relatives who live abroad they know whats going on in the world at the very least from surfing the internet joshi to and should i met online exchanging photos and phone numbers on instagram now and then the government blocks social media platforms but young people take it in stride resign or to check out everyone uses social media in iran we couldnt survive a single day without it everyone knows how to get the apps you need to unlock sites that have been blocked so you can get back to surfing because it matters so much to the sad. Socializing in iran usually happens behind closed doors or away from prying eyes like at this campsite deep in the woods. Religious police raids used to be commonplace these days the regime mostly leaves people in peace within their own swallows. These young people dont mind being filmed they say we just want to do what young people all over the world do it doesnt mean we dont love our country. By the vatican its terrible that most documentaries show around in such black and white terms all despair and suffering and veiled women each other youd think we lived in a communist system and total darkness. I never show that people in iran are happy to mind and enjoy life despite the restrictions we live with and. Not only by the fact. That theyre taking a risk but theyre willing to live with the consequences for the sake of their personal freedom. That. I. Think. The next day a few more pictures before they head back home to post on instagram for their friends and to show the world that there is another iran its not an easy place to live but its their home. Again my family and if i walk down the. Street like this even women would come up to me and complain oh wow its not just the regime that strict not even the police. If a woman saw me in public without a headscarf then she come up to me and ask why i was going about like that oh wow thats the culture that developed after the Islamic Revolution and. No one is happy with the way things are at the moment. Sometimes when were together we joke with our elders that its their fault. And they say its true but this is not the way things were supposed to turn out. To listeners. Some of. The club is already planning its next off road tour the next escape from everyday life its not easy for young people in iran to live their dreams. Our next stop is mashad a bustling city in the northeast of the country one of irans most significant centers of religious and political power. Its a Public Holiday the anniversary of the martyrdom of a mom raising a descendent of the islamic Prophet Muhammad and the eighth shiites in. The shrine is managed by an extremely wealthy religious foundation an institution that wields a lot of power not only in mashad but also on the regime in tehran. I. I. The crowds of pilgrims mark the Public Holiday by visiting the shrine every year sees some twenty seven million devout muslims visit mashad this conservative reactionary city is an unlikely home for a lively underground rock music scene but as we find out appearances can be deceiving. His soundproof too small sound studio in his parents house to make sure the outside world doesnt hear what goes on in here. For me being a heavy metal musician in mashad means living in a dead end if so little of everything i do i do purely for myself. Its not for public consumption. I only do it because of the pressure i feel if. This is what but that reinforces my belief in what im doing. If it werent for social media we wouldnt be here now we musicians are all connected via the internet. Before i met the others on facebook i felt very lonely and lost. But when i realized there were many others in my position i realized i wasnt alone. The contact we have with one another and also a sense of envy in competition is what spurs us on. The heart of. A jam session with the band out of nowhere in the basement of a tenement block on the citys outskirts someone always keeps watch outside in case the police show up but down here it looks like a band practice anywhere in the world. Molly if you play a well i play c. Is that ok for you. There are challenges of rock musicians here in mashad many come from middle class families like under. Religious hard liners reviled the western rock they play. And they see heavy metal as the devils work. Was intuition lots of people think that metal heads worship the devil and that were satanists of course were not and they think our music is aggressive and incitement to violence and from all thats completely wrong to give them i look at us metal heads are the most peaceful people you can imagine so. But people have these fixed ideas which is a real shame on. This as ive seen lots of bands have their work censored for the authorities tell them that if they want to be approved they need to modify what theyre doing i see that happening all the time but in the end the artist doesnt feel its his own song anymore and doesnt want to play it is wrong. About. Our next meeting is with razor go harry whos the same age as and dishes. He was just a boy when he decided he wanted to be a cleric. Days ago he wears the black turban of the same descendants of the prophet mohammed. Hes a coup done a servant of the holy shrine of the memories a who works in the soup kitchen and helps visitors to the mosque. In tucson im going to do my friends and i are here to provide everyone who visits with a place to find rest and something to eat. The pilgrims have come a long way and are thirsty and often hungry. They come to my shot out of love and devotion to him on raising. We live here i see it is my duty to serve these people as a. Bunch of holiday meal. On the anniversary of him raises martyrdom does gripped by religious fervor his followers engage in archaic rituals flagellating themselves with chains to make his suffering. Young men carry the heavy ensign of. Raissa staggering under its weight. Had i. Was even if these martyrs are dead that we can reach out to them as that we should they are here that there is much we can ask of the a moms great spirits that good to give and they can fulfill our requests because they rule over the universe that means than boy. That is what the shia believe in the convoy had a vision a joy many of us come to the a moms mausoleum to reach out to his spirit and to show respect to the saying good bye then issued out. Raise or go hurried lives in studies in the amman raise a shrine complex. It encompasses a mosque and the muzzle liam seven courtyards a seminary and Islamic University libraries and seminar rooms. I got my source im going to when we are unable to change the minds of young people who do not share our faith then we organize events are specifically for them so as not to lose contact with them as we offer them jobs taking photos or video recording advance or working as drivers we do it to make sure we keep in touch with them im pretty sure that even file would be a vast battle got out of the shit. But we arrange a meeting between reza go hurry the young cleric and under the rock musician. Theyre both twenty seven they both grew up in mashad. But the two in have a completely different worlds and couldnt be more different still they talk to each other as openly as the constraints of Iranian Society own level. Theres. All sorts of musicians perform here in the park but when we apply for a comment were turned down and usually on the grounds of the way we look because the authorities think will intimidate people whats your face which. Sometimes you might meet a cleric who doesnt even know all the rules of his own religion let alone how musicians such as yourself think. And thats the problem we know far too little about one another so theres instant animosity and. One reason why there are so many hard rock and heavy metal musicians in mashad is the pressure we face. Im always being told what im not allowed to do i need to write songs to express how i feel and so do many others. And thats the basic principle of rock and metal the more pressure there is the more explosive the reaction. To the music is rooted in the human problems social suffering these problems cant be ignored. I cant just grabbed on to shape by the collar and order him to get over these problems. Thats not how it works. For the sharpness although there are not many like raised. Another cleric would have had very Different Things to say there was little to this the idea that we might all sit down together and talk about ways to improve things is absurd. Given the current circumstances it just wouldnt happen. Show. At the fox. The two men are unlikely to resolve their differences and will most likely never meet again. Thats and. Thats why doesnt john you know im sure i wont spend the rest of my life in mashad at one point ill leave but that doesnt mean ill forget my home ill come back one day and work in the cultural sector in music or something similar. Maybe ill open a music school. But only once ive gained experience elsewhere i will. Show it is a city steeped in both religious devotion and social despair a city that at once repels its children and embraces them. Leave mashad in the north and head south to homos island in the persian gulf. U. S. Sanctions against iran have a special significance here its a place where the countrys International Problems play out alongside its domestic ones. One thing that is for most was once the most important port along the maritime stretch of the silk road the island is on the threshold between east and west and used to be beautiful and wealthy whoever controlled hormones island controlled the seas the trade routes from india over africa and the suez canal on other stores wasnt. Too good to. Raise a cooler ronnies sings of love and suffering he grew up in poverty on homos island then left and went to tehran where he launched his successful career as a musician. But yet. Today he and his band are famous in iran but he hasnt forgotten where he came from and often returns. To the persian gulf where the Arabian Peninsula feels nearer than tehran. Here the many cultural influences of the countries along the silk road are still in evidence. The women wear color and the traditional face masks of who live in the coastal region. But these people are poor they feel forgotten by their government and ignored by the rest of the world peace who. Uses his celebrity to organize aid projects here on homos island enlisting the help of other artists from across the country. We have always been very active here but its not about self promotion weve organized cultural festivals to attract more tourism to hormones to provide the locals with an income so they can happen up to eat so that they dont have to resort to smuggling and risking their lives. Riza takes us to meet a friend of his family a fisherman. His generation sacrificed their youth their families for this country they lived through the revolution and the iran iraq war when they came home they wanted to work so they did what theyd always done they worked as fishermen and traders. Youre more you without your thought you. Dont rock mine is fifty as a soldier in the one nine hundred eighty s. He was the victim of a chemical attack along with thousands of others he still suffers from the consequences today. Because his medical file was lost he cant claim any kind of state support. That. If i hadnt been wounded in the fighting there would have been a prisoner of war i would be better off now then i would at least get a monthly pension. The state would have given me a house my children would have work instead we have nothing the children are freed prisoners of war have senior positions we dont were doing the same hard work we did before. Abdul rahman family are preparing a special dinner for razor and the visitors from german television. Because its such a special occasion the women are cooking over the wood fire outside but its a gas stove in the kitchen. Theyve served up a feast spicy rice with lentils and prawns fried fish and fresh salad. With their hair and foremost were sitting on the biggest natural gas reserves in the world but the people here have nothing to gas from formalises transported to carom on a muted tehran and top breeze. You the whole country gets gas from formulas you know but here on the island there arent even any. I plunge people like up dollar a month myself and others are forced to take gas cylinders to filling stations and carry them home on our backs so that the women can cook. Was not as though that was going on while we were on it. Because. I know that it didnt so for most the price of gas is going up. There is none for now please do not knock. Sometimes theres no gas for a whole month if the weather is stormy and the ships cant sail its especially bad in winter. Thats what life is like here the mother. Didnt give her. Machine no gas but at least theres time to chat and grumble about the sorry state of affairs. Shed. Have to run on works day and night to ensure he catches enough to feed his family. His son cant get married he tells us because the family cant afford to pay for the wedding. And he has no idea what will happen when hes too old to work just one other thing fishing has taken a turn for the worse in recent years the seas are over fish because three years ago the chinese were awarded industrial fishing licenses fish and shrimp stocks have fallen dramatically as a result. In. The run one couldnt live from fishing alone so he began ferrying goats and. Fabrics to the Arabian Peninsula and smuggling cigarettes back to iran. Eventually he was caught and served a lengthy jail sentence for smuggling they arrest a few poor people and then brand everyone in the south as smugglers of course smuggling is an issue but now there are sanctions against the oil trade and life will become even harder people here need to look after themselves and think about the future we have to come up with something you know. Very well thought of a jumble. But fishing is the only job hes ever known. He only sells the best of the catch and keeps the rest for his family. Today he sells just two hundred fifty grams of king prawns. Today was terrible. Ive even had to pay for fuel out of my own pocket. But still im grateful that i wasnt through. Walmart you know when they go if the government would pay a bit more attention to this region then a miracle could happen. Im serious. People here in the south are very hospitable despite the poverty. There is amazing heritage here and they look after it well. Thats something thats wonderful and rare. Joy i hope you dont show. But the iranian government is more interested in the strait of hormuz a short sea corridor between iran and oman of major strategic significance. One third of Global Oil Production passes through it every day. Shipments that iran could block if it so wished. The. Decades of isolation and the controversy over Irans Nuclear program have also left their mark on is fun the most popular tourist site in iran. The historic city on the edge of the desert is known as the pearl of persia. One hundred square is unesco World Heritage site and draws visitors from all over the world. The carpet store owned by the huggy family is a local landmark. Commune. And weve been decorating our floors with carpets for centuries. But theyre more than decorative. Carpets play a big role in our lives and babies are born on them and we sleep on them when the. Life unfolds on persian rugs even if these days we sit on chairs and eat and tables. Before the revolution this where was teeming with tourists as far as the eye can see it was a bustling place but its not like that anymore i dont want to be negative but i have happy memories of those times i wish things would change. In the past famous people from all over the world would visit the square with their entourages. They would put barricades up around the square and there would be public celebrations. Nothing like that has happened for ages. I wish the country would open its doors to the world again. The huggy family has been hand knotting persian carpets for one hundred twenty years their customers have included kings and president s. Faisal know how he is a master of his craft before he begins making a carpet he first sketches a design on paper. His workshop is just around the corner from nash. Now seventy six has worked together with mr for that car for fifty years theyve been friends since their school days. Before the carpet is not it the designers create whats called a cartoon a sort of rug map on paper. Each square represents a single not. Being flooded out. Well im one of the news paints and brushes and calculate each individual not if we mark exactly how many knots and which color will be not in a row. The secret of a good carpet is mathematics at all but the. Next door the next generation is hard at work they are not using paper and paint brushes but touch screens and digital pens. Sons are also carpet designers carpet making has traditionally been a male dominated industry but hes also training a young woman. This way color can be corrected with one simple click but its still meticulous work. Even on the computer each individual not has to be marked. Whether the designs are drawn up on paper or the computer screen they end up to sectored into pieces and stuck on wood to be used as a reference by the rug daughters in the workshop. And with. This one will be forty square metres. Eight by five. Its a work of art. Because its a work of art i cant name a price. Its only when its finished and is appraised by experts that a price will be set. Its one of a pair the first is already finished. And the women have been working on them for two years. I think theyll need another seven or eight months. To go to the. If you want to be successful you must be creative. Thats what i tell young people thats what i tell my students here is a very talented shell be qualifying as a master crafts woman soon but it may give the them. Twenty f. Now that theyve been in family i grew up in a family of doctors lawyers and engineers to begin with they didnt want me to study art but once i graduated from school all of a sudden they let me later i found out that my grandmother had argued my case she was very interested in comp it she died when i was still in my first year of my studies in the us. I think of her every day when i work here i count on one housemate. Three days all are hanging he has three sons they all studied abroad Computer Technology architecture art and design. But they all came home to carry on the Family Tradition they learned from their father and develop their own styles these days their designs are on sale in the shop the most valuable rug is worth thirty thousand euros and was made by faisal a huggy himself it boasts one hundred forty knots per square metre and is made of fine silk its beautiful but he hasnt found a buyer. By those in quite a way through after President Trump imposed sanctions sixty percent of the people in this industry lost their jobs at this club were no longer allowed to export our carpets we cant trade abroad. Mr trump thinks hes fighting our government but all. All hes doing is destroying the livelihoods of normal people. And then hes so proud of himself and what he thinks hes achieving. Things all the hugging he says thinking about irans economic plight makes him sad. He goes out to his pomegranate orchard whenever he can it revives his spirits here he can recover his optimism that his children and his country might one day have a Brighter Future for. The pomegranate is a wonderful. Look how close the seeds are to one another. Just like the people of iran and from a Common Ground it is sweet inside but the skin is bitter like our current economic situation. But its important we stick together and really we are very warm hearted be able to this nanny. Old. Propaganda on rails for russias army is celebrating its victories in syria with an exhibition train. A bitter pill to swallow for relatives of those who died in combat many receive little assistance and feel abandoned d. W. Reporter u. P. V. C. Tell me its families of Fallen Soldiers and heres their stories. Going to minutes on the double. How about taking a few arrests could even take a chance on was. Carrying too. Dont expect happy ending. Struts. 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