At the time of the Zand dynasty, it was a little town that was significant from a strategic point of view. The first of the Qajar kings, Agha Mohammed Khan, named Tehran as the country’s capital in 1778, and most of its growth started during the reign of a subsequent Qajar monarch, Fath-Ali Shah. The castle which Agha Mohammed Khan had built was to contain the new majestic buildings.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”middle”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1650375367316{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 10px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text el_class=”nd_options_text_align_center_responsive”]With a dramatic\u00a0topography\u00a0reflective of its proximity to the highest peak in the country, Tehr\u0101n is Iran\u2019s gateway to the outside world. Tehr\u0101n\u2019s image abroad was strongly influenced by the\u00a0Iranian Revolution\u00a0of the late 1970s. In the last two decades of the 20th century, television screens and newspaper articles around the world portrayed Tehr\u0101n as a deeply religious city steeped in tradition, fighting against modernization and Westernization. While the Iranian self-image is that of an ancient people with a long history and a rich heritage, Tehr\u0101n challenges these images, as the corporeal city is relatively young. Most buildings were built after the mid-1960s, and the population\u2019s mean age is about 31 years; many of the city\u2019s institutions are even younger. This often uneasy coexistence of old and new, of\u00a0continuity\u00a0and change, and a deep social divide between rich and poor characterize the city, causing vitality as well as tension and upheaval\u2014reflected in two revolutions and many social movements during the 20th century.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”middle” css=”.vc_custom_1650353632301{margin-top: 30px !important;margin-bottom: 10px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1650375363175{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 10px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”]
[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”2045″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”middle” css=”.vc_custom_1650349335306{margin-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1650375383469{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 10px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”middle”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1650375370917{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 10px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text el_class=”nd_options_text_align_center_responsive”]Tehran is a cosmopolitan city, with great museums, parks, restaurants, and warm friendly people. It deserves at least a few days of your Iranian itinerary. The city can be roughly divided […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1972,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2043","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iranandmore.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iranandmore.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iranandmore.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iranandmore.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iranandmore.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":71,"href":"http:\/\/iranandmore.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"http:\/\/iranandmore.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2043\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iranandmore.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iranandmore.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}