Once Upon a Time in Tehran

Photos of a swinging Iran when the skirts were short, the dance was the twist, and America wasn't Enemy No. 1.

BY CARA PARKS | FEBRUARY 15, 2012

A Tehran hospital operating room in 1971. By the end of the shah's rule, the 34 million people then living in Iran were served by fewer than 15,000 doctors, causing huge inequalities in care, especially outside urban centers like Tehran.

Courtesy of Kaveh Farrokh

 

Cara Parks is the deputy managing editor of Foreign Policy.