Pedestrian walkways, bike lanes, green spaces: An unusual election platform for a politician in Iran
The cellphone rang, filling the salon of the cozy walk-up apartment with the sound of classical music that reverberated off the cream-colored walls lined with landscape paintings and contemporary sketches. Taraneh Yalda, a 62-year-old architect, answered the call. It was a colleague inviting her to his gallery in Tehran, but they had more than art and design to discuss./ Last month, in a surprise, Yalda won the approval of Iran’s conservative election monitors to run for a seat on Tehran’s city council. Hailing from a family of artists and ...
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