d.w. . the only order is history the world is reworking noising itself and the media's role in these kids' shifting powers the topic in focus at the global media forum twenty nine th the laboratory for the digital age. who are we following do we trust debate and shape the future at the doj ability global media forum twenty nine t. the place made for minds. forty years after the islamic revolution in iran is a country torn between the conservative influence of the clerics and a desire for change. very good you know you can go online and find out what's going on in the world in

a matter of minutes you can expect the younger generation to stand still young people will move on if you think what. many are pushing back against the country's strict social and cultural laws. there's a new law that says we can only sing our persian but since we started out we've always aim to be international international. and many are testing their own limits in their bid for greater freedom. now this is the first time we've done an off road tour that i'm going into the forest and spending the night away from home it's great to have a potentially wealthy country struggling with powerful outside enemies and its own domestic problems. to go along with iran is known to be rich in natural resources but the government can't even manage one island. the land of contradiction at once unsettling and breath taking leave you the whole. i'm not momma granites have

a bitter skin but they're sweet inside just like iran if you don't. we begin our journey in the capital tehran. home to a population of thirteen million it's the beating heart of the country. we're meeting a fashion designer whose mission is to challenge iran's strict islamic dress code. needed to have a major that moves in the way people dress is like a living museum america the country that long after the islamic revolution there

were only four colors black brown dark blue and grey well his article on the new thousand five hundred years ago you were good guests colorful fabrics as gifts given. but today our hands are tied. in islam black is actually saying ugly nasty unpopular color. is the new good it shouldn't actually be worn you know. i don't know how it came to pass that all. monies 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 ever really in fashion a celebrity. but even though she has an ambitious agenda she's also careful not to go to. you know. so her seamstresses take their headscarves off when they're

indoors in front of the camera so money keeps her head covered she doesn't want to trouble with the authorities. now we are going to parliament and the parliament is the place. and of that the folks. don't scream. political. but. we accompany the designer on her weekly shopping trip to one of the city's main bazaars. command. i came back to tehran from london for the islamic revolution in the one nine hundred seventy nine and at first i worked for a bank. that was a doormat. 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. while yet. back then i decided never to be employed somewhere but rather to be my own boss so that was a political story was next but not really it was just a personal anecdote right with. the conflict over iran's 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. in a misguided than i would i say medals a few weeks ago for six cents now they cost eighty cents. i have a how do you have any customers left women has to come to me and pay the equivalent

of seven hundred euros for an evening gown i mean i don't have customers like that anymore and the poor vendors here they have even bigger problems. off of it. 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 persia. it's sold in iran and a number of select cities worldwide. so money is chief editor for backer has an international client base. but this particular one i like it because it's about culture five style and he's a new thing and this wonderful lady he's the pioneer in fashion and she's the first designer to have a run you know. catwalk a fashion show and you want permitted by the government. that was the money spent months negotiating with the authorities for permission to

publish her designs in a magazine on sale overseas islamic fashion. clothes that comply with standards of modest dress. now is it twenty year is a. fine thing. what color and that. is if you're going to leave of course. but the fight hasn't been won yet. me so 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 she's not allowed to send models down a runway that's even allowed in afghanistan she says. was amicable. i would be so happy ever 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 could get to know my work. that. 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.

comes. your phone for 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 i'd work in a garage making car headlamps until four in the morning. the oil through the local roll through due to. look. through idea 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 wasn't anyone around here that i knew of organizing off road adventures. did you know that the kathleen of a hard to go would be the. jump she'd and his girlfriend should i haven't been together long they invite us along on one of their off road clubs tours and give us permission to film. it's brave of them to go on camera and for shy guy to let

herself be filmed without a headscarf. like the war on about it for young people getting to know each other with whether they're a lover of just a friend so this is a perfect spot of a. corner and was going to. think that you deny usually meet up and go for a drive. sometimes just for fifteen minutes or half an hour. every two weeks we meet in a cafe has now and then we meet more regularly but we've never spent more than two hours together and thought. that would be the only. person among. us you don't know shar is a student city and popular with tourists fleeing the stress of tehran. now here in the north the climate is my only fear afresh and the view of the mountain forests are spectacular. the club members have invested

a lot of money in their off road vehicles to them off roading is more than a hobby it's a taste of freedom. they get together once or twice a month and head out to the countryside. sugaree expire there is considered a martyr he died of wounds sustained in the iran iraq war. her mother and her brothers are strict with her they don't know that she's spending the weekend with her boyfriend. i am most proud that on this earth i once told my brother the truth about where i was going but it was no good. i'm forced to lie. of course i'm worried i'll be found out. that it 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. well. this is the first time sure guy 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. still. if you want to get. all these young people were born after the islamic revolution they've never known another iran they're well educated and many of them have relatives who live abroad they know what's going on in the world at the very least from surfing the internet jumpsuit 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. to talk it out everyone uses social media in iran we couldn't 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 them that. 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 four walls. these young people don't mind being filmed they say we just want to do what young people all over the world do it doesn't mean we don't love our country.

let. me tell you about the thickets here it's terrible that most documentaries show around in such black and white terms all despair and suffering and veiled women each other you'd think we lived in a communist system and total darkness. i never show that people in iran are happy. and enjoy life despite the restrictions we live with and. no doubt by the fact that. they're taking a risk that they're willing to live with the consequences for the sake of their personal freedom. that.

the next day a few more pictures before they head back to post on instagram for their friends and to show the world that there is another iran it's not an easy place to live but it's their home. and if i walk down the street like this even women would come up to me and complain it's not just the regime that strict not even the police. if a woman saw me in public without a headscarf then she'd come up to me and ask why i was going about like that.

that's the culture that developed after the islamic revolution. no one is happy with the way things are at the moment. sometimes when we're together we joke with our elders that it's their fault. and they say it's true but this is not the way things were supposed to turn out or this and i feel no. you know their system would say hello some of. the club is already planning its next off road tour the next escape from everyday life it's 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 iran's most significant centers of religious and political power. it's 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. 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. and the show has soundproof too small sound studio in his parent's house to make sure the outside world doesn't hear what goes on in here. are you on a very very well for me being a heavy metal musician in mashad means living in

a dead end of. everything i do i do purely for myself and it's not for public consumption. i only do it because of the pressure i feel. is what are but that reinforces my belief in what i'm doing if you. don't know. if it weren't for social media we wouldn't. here now we are all connected via the internet. on 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 wasn't alone in the contact we have with one another and also a sense of envy in competition is what spurs us on. a jam session with the band out of nowhere in the basement of a tenement block on the city's 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. if you play well i play c. is that ok for you. there are thousands of rock musicians here in russia many come from middle class families like under. religious hardliners reviled the western rock they play. and they see heavy metal as the devil's work. lots of people think that metal heads worship the devil and that we're satanists of course we're not it and they think our music is aggressive and incitement to violence. that's completely wrong because when 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 upon. my. behavior as i've 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 they're doing i see that happening all the time but in the end the artist doesn't feel it's his own song anymore and doesn't want to play it as you think. about. our next meeting is with ray's ago harry who's the same age as and bishop. 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. he's 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. to join 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 andres are. we live here i see it is my duty to serve these people as a. budget for the little one. on the anniversary of razors martyrdom has gripped by religious fervor his followers engage in archaic rituals flagellating themselves with chains to make his suffering .

young men carry the heavy incentives. memories are staggering under its weight. that diana was going to have and was even if these martyrs are dead that we can reach out to them which if they are here that there is much we can ask of the a mom's great spirits that good to give and they can fulfill our requests because they rule over the universe that means that boy. that is what the shia believe that they move on what are they hiding bush and age are many of us come to the a mom's mausoleum to reach out to his spirit and to show respect to the saying good bye then they shrink down. razor go harry's 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 myself going to us when we were 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 events or working as drivers we do it to make sure we keep in touch with them i'm pretty sure that even highly be a vast battle got out of a ship. but don't we arrange a meeting between reza go hurry the young cleric and the rock musician. they're both twenty seven they both grew up in mashad. but the two inhabit completely different worlds and couldn't be more different still they talk to each other as openly as the constraints of iranian society allow. for three years through so long

they meet all sorts of musicians perform here in the park issue but when we apply for a comment we're timed out and we. usually on the grounds of the way we look because the authorities think will intimidate people what's your opinion which. sometimes you might meet a cleric who doesn't even know all the rules of his own religion let alone how musicians such as yourself think. and that's the problem for us that we know far too little about one another so there's instant animosity and. that is one reason why there are so many hard rock and heavy metal musicians in mashad is the pressure we face. i'm always being told what i'm not allowed to do i need to write songs to express how i feel and so do many others. and that's the basic principle of rock and metal more pressure there is the more explosive the reaction . to news the music is a rooted in the human problems social suffering these problems can't be ignored. i

can't just grabbed on to shape by the collar and order him to get over these problems. that's not how it works. for the sharpness all i got there are not many like raised. another cleric would have had very different things to say what's wrong with 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 wouldn't happen hamas militia show. yet at the fall. the two men are unlikely to resolve their differences and will most likely never meet again.

that's and. move the hearts well as and. you know i'm sure i want to spend the rest of my life in mashad at one point i'll leave but that doesn't mean i'll forget my home i'll come back one day and work in the cultural sector in music or something similar to. this a guitar maybe i'll open a music school. but only once i've gained experience elsewhere i feel. 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 homo's island in the persian gulf. u.s. sanctions against iran have a special significance here it's

a place where the country's international problems play out alongside its domestic once. one thing and 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 but whoever controlled hormones island controlled the sea the trade routes from india over africa and the suez canal. ronnie's sings of love and suffering he grew up in poverty on homos island then left and went to tehran where he launched a successful career as a musician. today he and his band are famous in iran but he hasn't forgotten where he came from and often returns home 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. that women wear color and the traditional face masks of arab iranians 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 you see. razor uses his celebrity to organize aid projects here on homo's island enlisting the help of other artists from across the country. we have always been very active here but it's not about self promotion we've organized cultural festivals to attract more tourism to harm us to provide the locals with an income so they can happen up to eat so that they don't 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 they'd always done they worked as fishermen and traders i mean you're more you don't you're told you're. i'm direct 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 can't claim any kind of state support. that. if i hadn't 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 don't we're 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 it's such a special occasion the women are cooking over the wood fire outside but it's a gas stove in the kitchen. they've served up a feast spicy rice with lentils and prawns fried fish and fresh salad. with their day here and foremost we're sitting on the biggest natural gas reserves in the world but the people here have nothing gas from formalises transported to carom on terror on and top breeze. you the whole country gets gas from formulas you

know but here on the island there aren't even any pipelines 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 you know. it's not as though that was going on where they were funny. as children they would always run off when their mothers wanted to send them to get gas. the cylinders were so heavy . oh no dear residents of hormuz the price of gas is going up. there is none for now . please do not knock the balls out sometimes there's no gas for a whole month if the weather is stormy and the ships can't sail it's especially bad in winter. when we're here that's what life is like here the mother.

didn't go through. we should no gas but at least there's time to chat and grumble about the sorry state of affairs. she'd. have to run on works day and night to ensure he catches enough to feed his family. his son can't get married he tells us because the family can't afford to pay for the wedding. and he has no idea what will happen when he's too old to work just one other thing about fishing has taken a turn for the worse in recent years the seas are over fish to because three years ago the chinese were awarded industrial fishing licenses fish and shrimp stocks

have fallen dramatically as a result. of that. the rock mine couldn't 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 he may 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. good was a wonderful example. but fishing is the only job he's 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.

i've even had to pay for fuel out of my own pocket. but still i'm grateful. if the government would pay a bit more attention to this raid than a miracle could happen. i'm serious. people here in the south are very hospitable despite the poverty. there is amazing heritage here and they look after it well. that's something that's wonderful and rare. joy i'm sure. 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 tehran

could block if it so wished. the. decades of isolation and the controversy over iran's 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. and we've been decorating our floors with carpets for centuries. but they're more than

decorative. carpets play a big role in our lives and babies are born on them and we sleep on them. life unfolds on persian rugs even if these days we sit on chairs and eat tables. before the revolution the square was teeming with tourists as far as the eye could see it was a bustling place. but it's not like that anymore i don't want to be negative but i have happy memories of those times i wish things would change. in the past and 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 presidents. phase older huggy 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 nashville john squire now seventy six has worked together with mr for that car for fifty years they've been friends since their school days. the slow. one. before the carpet is knotted the designers create what's called a cartoon a sort of rugged map on paper. each square represents a single not. we

used paint and brushes and calculate each individual not to do if we mark exactly how many knots and which color will be not in a row. the secret of a good carpet is mathematics with bush. 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 he's also training a young woman. this way color can be corrected with one simple click but it's 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 rather daughters in the workshop. that

. this one will be forty square metres. eight by five. it's a work of art. because it's a work of art i can't name a price. it's only when it's finished and is appraised by experts that a price will be set. it's one of a pair the first is already finished and. the women have been working on them for two years. i think they'll need another seven or eight months. to go to the moon if you want to be successful you must be creative. that's what i tell young people that's what i tell my students here is a very talented she'll be qualifying as

a master crafts woman soon and that immediate of the. twentieth another day but in time as i grew up in a family of doctors lawyers and engineers to begin with they didn't 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 cap ex 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 and one house with. three is all a home 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 end of elop 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 huggy himself it boasts one hundred forty knots per square metre and is made of fine silk it's beautiful but he hasn't 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 the club we're no longer allowed to export our carpets we can't trade abroad. mr trump thinks he's fighting our government but all he still. it is destroying the livelihoods of normal people. and then he's so proud of himself and what he thinks he's achieving. things all huggy says thinking about iran's 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 fruit look how close the seeds are to one another. just like the people of iran with the common ground it is sweet inside but the skin is bitter like our current economic situation. but it's important we stick together and really we are very warm hearted be able.

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