{"id":23880,"date":"2017-08-07T10:16:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T10:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/?p=23880"},"modified":"2017-08-07T10:16:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T10:16:55","slug":"palangan-kurdistan-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/palangan-kurdistan-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Palangan, Kurdistan, Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"Buy Iran GPS Map for Garmin<\/span><\/a> \nBuy Iran GPS Map for Mobile<\/span><\/a> \n<\/br>
\nAs a New Zealander, Iran is a deeply mysterious country. It\u2019s cliched to talk about the failings of mainstream media but in the west we have been almost conditioned to fear Iran. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s any kind of campaign, but for westerners, the actions of the government have been equated with the feelings of the people. It\u2019s only when you\u2019re inside the country that you realize how wrong that assumption is.<\/p>\n

 
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I spent two weeks in Iran and began feeling a debt for all the kindness shown me. I had seen a picture of Palangan (\u067e\u0644\u0646\u06af\u0627\u0646\u200e\u200e)on flickr and hired a local guy to travel with me into Kurdistan and help me through the trip.<\/p>\n

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Some of the pictures in the photo gallery on this page were bought by the Guardian newspaper and used in an online gallery which has been shared 5,000 times on facebook. It feels immensely satisfying to have something Iranian, and positive reach such a wide audience. It isn\u2019t much, but for the home cooked food, the taxi rides paid for by strangers, for all the little gestures of kindness I experienced as a traveler, now as a photographer I can say thank you with these images.
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