Modest in dress, rich Iranians pay for nice noses
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Iranians flouting Islamic street dress codes may risk being hauled in by police for questioning by "psychologists", but the frequent sight of bandaged faces from cosmetic surgery raises not so much as an official eyebrow.
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KARAJ, Iran  - Before Iran's 1979 Islamic  revolution, some of the world's finest cars cruised in Tehran  traffic, many of them the playthings of friends and close  associates of the Shah.
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Analysis: It's doubtful the Iranian President  really wanted to visit. What he really wanted was just what he got: a ferocious reaction
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The rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they donÂt pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay.
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Vilified as a Holocaust denier, a supporter of terrorism and a backer of Iraqi insurgents, the president of Iran was actually able to make New Yorkers burst into laughter -- but not at a joke.
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IMF delegates in Singapore get the chance to smooth wrinkled skin, following a local hospital's cut-price botox offer.
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Lebanon, once a byword for terrorism, has turned into the destination of choice for wealthy families from the Mideast.
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The world's top athletes are paid to peddle Nike gear.
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Bahman Ghobadi, the international face of Kurdish cinema, works in countries that are less than accommodating.
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TEHRAN -- A new movement of passive resistance is quietly sweeping young people in Iran, a response both to the reform movement's failure to introduce political and economic change and conservatives' control over who can run for office, according to Iranian student leaders and political analysts.
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The three richest people in the world have one thing in common.
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They are clean, drink bottled mineral water and have money -- nationals from Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi transiting through the west African state of Mali, candidates for illegal immigration to Europe.
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By David Koenig  DALLAS - Since long before leaving her native Iran as a teenager in 1984, Anousheh Ansari stared at the stars and dreamed of traveling closer to them.
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In Hollywood, Paris and Milan, fashion turns down the fuss
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Iran's decision to raise gasoline prices has thrown new light on one of its most entrenched problems &#151; the danger a vulnerable, subsidized economy poses for a country under international pressure over its nuclear program.
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According to "Tehran Times", some 37,971 tons of goods, valued at $26.1 million dollars, was exported from this north-central Iranian province during the first eight months of the current Iranian year (March 21-November 21). This showed 43% increase in weight compared to the same period last year.
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TEHRAN -- By day, Alireza Samiei covers banking and insurance for an industry newspaper. By night, he writes a daring online blog about Iran's social and political ills.