It [Persia] is a country of contradictions; there is nothing t | Mohammad Imani محمّد ایمانی
It [Persia] is a country of contradictions; there is nothing to bridge the gulf between the dark ages and the twentieth century; [...] it is a country of extremes, one of the few countries where the intervening, that is to say the nineteenth century, conveniences of civilisation will perhaps never be known. [...] Such strange things happen in these forgotten regions of the world.