IRAN - Rolling East https://rollingeast.com A bike ride across the world Sun, 05 Jul 2020 09:33:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.1 https://rollingeast.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-Untitled-design-2-32x32.png IRAN - Rolling East https://rollingeast.com 32 32 Hello, Iran! https://rollingeast.com/wel-come-to-iran/ https://rollingeast.com/wel-come-to-iran/#respond Sun, 06 Aug 2017 04:00:54 +0000 https://rollingeast.com/?p=2080 I sit here, about 40km from Tabriz, inside one of the Iranian Red Crescent stations, a cool room, carpets covering the floor, four Red Crescent volunteers and two Tabrizi ambulance drivers chatting and laughing in Urdu, a 40″ Samsung LCD blares out the celebrations for Imam Reza birthday, while Ali Reza talks to me about …

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