Gulf War Capitals Are Stoical, Calm; After Fighting and Revolution, Little Seems Changed in Tehran From: The Washington Post | Date: January 25, 1987| Author: | Copyright 1987 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

For a city that in the past decade has been turned on end by revolution, then sapped by almost 6 1/2 years of numbing war, the Iranian capital of Tehran these days appears surprisingly unscathed.

Despite frightening daily newspaper headlines that scream of the latest battles in the nation's bitter conflict with neighboring Iraq and wartime economic privations, the mood in this overcrowded city under the snowcapped Elburz Mountains seems strangely upbeat.

Although there is much criticism in private among certain groups-mostly the middle class, which has suffered most from the Islamic ...

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