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Women gaze at jewelery displayed at an international fair in Tehran.

Crystal meth, skinny jeans and underground bloggers — it’s the Iran you never see

Books

Iranian-British author Ramita Navai says Iran’s capital Tehran is full of people who are leading double lives. On the outside, they conform. On the inside, they are true to themselves. She tells their stories in her novel, City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the search for Truth in Tehran.