Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/04/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jay, Western Europeans know more about Iran than you assume - The UK and Germany had enormous interests there that they are now planning to revive. Most big industrials and petrochemical concerns were there for decades - naturally screwing the "Persians" for every penny or Pfennig they could get. Cheers Douglas On 28.04.2016 05:40, Jay Burleson wrote: > Beautiful. > What's really sad is that if asked, 9 out of 10 > Americans and Western Europeans would think that > Tehran was probably comprised of mud-brick huts... > > Jay > > On 4/27/2016 10:43 AM, Tina Manley wrote: >> PESO: >> >> Tehran was a large city when we lived there 40 years >> ago but it's now >> huge! The highways are much better than our's in >> the USA and there are >> lots of modern buildings going up everywhere. These >> skyline photos are >> from a beautiful pedestrian bridge and park: >> >> http://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Iran/G0000YmlbTddL96g/I0000WKlLXvKY0dE >> >> >> >> http://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Iran/G0000YmlbTddL96g/I00008pmVO42.924 >> >> >> >> The Iranians we met said this was a particularly >> clear spring day and that >> for most of the year the pollution is so bad that >> you can't see the >> mountains at all. >> >> Tina >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for > more information >