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On the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Republic, Iranians too young to remember the revolution against the Shah consider whether there will be another against the mullahs.

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Two young women ride the ski lift up a mountain behind Tehran.

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A man smokes a waterpipe in a restored hammam in Kerman.

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Wearing an Iranian flag and a Metallica T-shirt, two young men attend a pre-election rally in a soccer stadium in Tehran.

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Teenage girls protest a ban on attending soccer matches outside the Azadi (“Freedom”) Stadium in Tehran.

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Young women practice traditional dance in Tehran’s Velinjak district.

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A rock band takes to the stage during a music festival in the auditorium of Amir Kabir University in Tehran.

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Snow-covered mountain peaks rise above a Shiite graveyard on the road from Esfahan to Khorramabad in western Iran.

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Two women celebrate Ashura in the western town of Khorramabad.

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