Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Well considering how hard political elements in this country try very hard to demonize iranians as “uncivilized” religious barbarians (see, for e.g., D and R debates), I’d wager most people outside the gawker commentariat don’t know about that carefully-constructed narrative

Uh seriously? Not doubting your stories at all (especially if these things went down in small towns), and being a religious minority is sure as hell not something I’d want to experience, but I also have to chime in that Armenians were long beloved in Iran by many, and revered for intellectual and artistic…