A Free Couch To Crash On In Iran

By SANDRA KEIL, OZY

At a party with loud music booming, young girls — in heavy makeup, carefully styled hair and too-short miniskirts — mingle with young men. I witness homemade alcohol (a strong aniseed liqueur) and some risqué images on the wall that would fall foul of the morality police. A reasonable scene most anywhere in the West, but far less so in Tehran, the heart of the Islamic Republic of Iran, where all of the above is forbidden, demonized and criminalized.

Iranians shop at the main bazaar in Tehran on December 18, 2014.(ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)

Nathan Siegel contributed reporting.

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