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A visit to Iran Salaam, said a resident greeting us in Niavaran street Tehran in the morning. We too reciprocated saying Salaam. Another Tehranian stopped near us and asked ‘Pakistani’? When we said we are from Sri Lanka, he said ‘Oh best tea country’ and went away. The two of us wanted to chat longer but the language barrier stood in our way. We saw him leaving looking back at us again and again. We waved till he disappeared into a by lane at the end of the Niavaran Street. The average Sri Lankan, like a friend of mine who had unfounded fears on Iran, are compelled to think of Iran as a country where strict rules of Islam have deprived people of their democratic freedom forcing them to live under pressure. This impression has been inculcated in the minds of many people in other countries as well by the international media backed by certain enemies of Iran in the Western world after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Rohollah Khomeini imposed...