Shiraz, Iran

Paragliding in Iran. A scene at Friday evening after the paragliding is finished, the equipment is packed in the Iran-made Nissan jeep and young women have a chat with a fellow paragliding pilot before leaving for home, Teheran, Iran

Young couple flirting in a restaurant in Teheran's northern Mellat Park, Teheran, Iran

Street scene in the center of Teheran. The revolutionary murals can be found all over, though mostly they show martyrs or events from the eight yearlong Iran-Iraq war, Teheran, Iran

Young Iranian woman looking at a sculpture which is exhibited in the House of the Artists in Teheran, Iran

Destroyed election poster of Mohammed Khatami in the Haft-e Tir Square in the center of Teheran, Iran

Young women during an opening of a coffee shop next to the Mellat Park in the north of Teheran, Iran

Group of youngsters exercising with their roller skates in the western suburb of Ekbatan, a settlement built by the French in the seventies, Teheran, Iran

Young woman using a telephone Booth in Haft e-Tir Square which is the geographical center of Teheran, Iran

Young people taking a bath from the summer heat in a creek in the Alborz Mountains just north of Teheran. Teheran, Iran

Young people during a break of a walking tour near Darbant in the Alborz Mountains just on the northern edge of Teheran, Teheran, Iran

Illegal demonstration of women in front of Teheran University for political freedom and equal rights for women shortly before the presidential election in Iran

Girls in front of their makeshift tent in the Ziveh refugee camp in Iran. The camp was created in the 1970's to house Kurdish refugees from Iraqi persecution.

Group of young people celebrating the victory of Mohammed Khatami during the presidential election on the 8th of June in a main street in the center of Teheran, Iran

Young couple walking hand in hand in front of a mural which shows the face of the Ayatollah Khomeini in Vanak Square in the north of Teheran. In the foreground one can see a charity box, Teheran, Iran

Group of young women celebrating the victory of Mohammed Khatami during the presidential election on the 8th of June in a main street in the center of Teheran. The posters show the writing Sayyid Mohammed Khatami, Teheran, Iran

Burned election poster during the presidential elections in Enqelb Al-Islami Street (Street of the Islamic Revolution) in downtown Teheran. The mural shows the distraction of an Iraqi tank by a child soldier in the eight yearlong Iran-Iraq war (1980-

Film acting students are exercising to relax in the private film acting school of Amin Tarokh in Teheran. A course in the school lasts about 8 months and is lectured by various well actors. A lot of the popular actors in Iran came out of the school o