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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. 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 equipment. many are pushing back against the country strict social and cultural laws. or there's a new law that says we can only sing in the 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. 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. with iran is known to be rich in natural resources but the government can't even manage one i live in a. land of contradictions at once unsettling and breathtakingly beautiful on the mama granites have a bitter skin but there is 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. and in their belts to have a major that 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 though his article. and five hundred years ago you give guests colorful fabrics as gifts given. but today i had to time that i thought that in islam black is actually seen as an ugly nasty unpopular color but. if you think it shouldn't actually be worn you know. that i don't know how it came to the us at all.

muslim money's 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. as the 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 too far. 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 to my partner and of that there folks. don't all think we. should. we accompany the designer on her weekly shopping trip to one of the city's main bazaars. kim

and. i came back to tehran from london before the islamic revolution in the 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 and so that was a political story wasn't it 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 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 don't have customers like that anymore and the poor vendors here they have even bigger problems. on the good people of the former 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. exalt in iran and a number of select cities worldwide. some money is chief editor for her backer has an international client base. but this particular one i like it because it's about culture five star. is

a new thing and this wonderful lady is the pioneer in fashion and she's the first designer to have a run you know. catwalk and fashion show when you want permits 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 years and. by teaching. what color and that. is if you will of course. but the fight hasn't been won yet. the 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. that monica bhide. 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. 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. sealants. for seven years ago i decided to start saving up to buy my own car would i work 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. through the local role through goofy kind of. like. 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 we kathleen moved here the whole. jump she did and his girlfriend should i have 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 she's going to let herself be filmed without a headscarf. like the war and for young people getting to know each other over whether there are a lot of or just around so this is a perfect spot of a. co-worker. who you 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'll be in a cafe. now and then we meet more regularly but we've never spent more than two hours together and thought that's had to be done and that would be to me only.

one quote. mosquito no shark is a student city and popular with tourists fleeing the stress of tehran. down here in the north the climate is mild the air fresh 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 then 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 don't know that she's spending the weekend with her boyfriend. come on. 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. 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 i could. just. see. all these young

people were born after the islamic revolution they've never known another iraq 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 jumpseat 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. time to check 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 the sap. socializing in. run 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 but. 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 oh my god. by the vatican 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 he has i never show that people in iran a happy to mind and enjoy life despite the restrictions we live with and i said he saw that in him no doubt. that. they're taking a risk that they're willing to live with the consequences for the sake of their

personal freedom. that. that. was. was. the. for 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 it's not an easy place to live but it's their home. but i guess

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 and she come up to me and ask why i was going about like that oh wow that's the culture that developed after the islamic revolution if you're through. 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 that. you know. 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. that 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 descendant of the islamic prophet muhammad and the eighth shiite 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. oh i. 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 dishes sound proofed to small sound studio in his parent's house to make sure the outside world doesn't hear what goes on in here. every day. 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 and it's not for public consumption. i only do it because of the pressure i feel. this is bob but that reinforces my belief in what i'm doing. if it weren't for social media we wouldn't 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 wasn't alone in the contact we have with one another and also

a sense of envy and 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. i normally if you play a while i play c. is that ok for you. there are thousands of rock musicians here in russia many come from middle class families like a. religious hardliners reviled the western rock they play. and they see heavy metal as the devil's work.

on money making music usually 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 and from all 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 with us of on. the . 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.

our next meeting is with ray's ago harry who's the same ages and. 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 cool a servant of the holy shrine of the memories a who works in the soup kitchen and helps visitors to the mosque. and was going 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 on raising. we live here i see it is my duty to serve these people as a. by the judge for they move. on

the anniversary of him raises martyrdom has gripped by religious fervor his followers engage in archaic rituals flagellating themselves with chains to mimic his suffering. young men carry the heavy ensign of. memories are staggering under its weight. had i. was even if these martyrs are dead that we can reach out to them. they are here and 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 john said that is what the shia believe in the convoy they have

a mission a job many of us come to the a mom's mausoleum to reach out to his spirit and to show respect is missing here by then issuing death. praise or go harry's lives in studies in the amman raise a shrine complex. it encompasses a mosque and the muslim seven courtyards a seminary and islamic university libraries and seminar rooms. i go myself i'm going to when we're unable to change the minds of young people who do not share our faith then we organize events specifically for them so as not to lose contact with them just 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 high libya vast battle got automation. but we arrange

a meeting between reza go hurry the young cleric and under a rock musician and they're both twenty seven they both grew up in mashad. but the two in have a 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 thirty years for you so long 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. 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 the more pressure there is the more explosive the reaction. to news the music is 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've got there are not many like raised. another cleric would have had very different things to say that was the rule for 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. at the fault and. the two men are unlikely to resolve their differences

and will most likely never meet again. and. move the huts one isn't. 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 and music or something similar. weapons against or maybe i'll open a music school. but only once i've 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. we 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. more i'm going to formalize 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 stories wasn't about to. raise a cooler ronnie's sings of love and suffering he grew up in poverty on homo's

island then left and went to tehran where he launched a successful career as a musician. but yet. 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. their women wear color and the traditional face masks of arab iranians who live in the coastal regions. but these people are poor they feel forgotten by their government and ignored by the rest of the world you see the. razor uses his celebrity to organize aid projects here on homo's island enlisting the help of other artists from across the country. in. the

city to go we have always been very active here but it's not about self promotion we've organized cultural festivals to attract more tourism to hormuz to provide the locals with an income so they can have enough 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. said i was. 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. you would. have to 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 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 chilled. and would have work instead we have nothing the children of freed prisoners of war have senior positions we don't we're doing the same hard work we did before. the. family are preparing a special dinner for raising and the visitors from german television. because it's such a special occasion the women are cooking over the wood fire outside but at the gas stove in the kitchen. they've served up a feast spicy rice with lentils and prawns fried fish and fresh salad.

with their 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 and tabriz. you the whole country gets gas from hormones 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 for. 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. 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. that is the one where that's what life is like here the mother. didn't go for. bush no gas but at least there's time to chat and grumble about the sorry state of affairs. she. left 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 so a lot of their 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. 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 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. very well so one of them will be.

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 rage that 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.

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. of clothing 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 at tables . before the revolution this where 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 the 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. 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 the car for fifty years they've been friends since their school days. this is what we want to. be for the carpet is not it 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 that if we mark exactly how many knots and which color will be knotted her rogue. the secret of a good carpet is mathematics. 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. and with. 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. the women have been working on them

for two years. i think they'll need another seven or eight months. and according to the book if you want to be successful you must be creative. that's what i tell young people that's what i tell my students all the co here is a very talented she'll be qualifying as a master crafts woman soon but it may give 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 kaput 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.

phrase all hugging 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 it's beautiful but he hasn't found a buyer. by the in quite a hotel room 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. going 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 it is a wonderful fruit look how close the seeds are to one another. just like the people of iran with my 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 to this nanny.

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