This Boeing 707, named Shahin, belonged to the Royal Iranian Air Force, which Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and Farah Pahlavi used for domestic and foreign travel. The color of this blue plane and its interior was luxuriously decorated.

Iran’s currency was at 32,000 rials to the dollar at the time of Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. The rial had traded at 256,000 to $1 on Thursday, and markets were closed Friday, the start of the weekend in Iran

Let’s open big, shall we? I don’t understand how this lady sits, eats, drinks, sees, or travels anywhere. HOWEVER. I applaud her sense of drama and I support her wholeheartedly in this.

Someday our great-grandchildren will look at photos of the hadron collider or the first 3D printer and wonder how they were invented so long ago! In the last point, you’ll see the pearl of the collection!

The most alluring things in life are often those that are off-limits. And as travellers, this means that we’re fascinated by places that we’re not allowed to visit.