Iranian City Puts Era of Tumult Behind; Islamic Crackdowns, Official Largess Leave Mixed Feelings in Isfahan

From: The Washington Post | Date: October 9, 1995| Author: John Lancaster | Copyright information

ISFAHAN, Iran -- The West views Iran as a land of unbridled radicalism: hostile ayatollahs, cloaked women, mobs chanting "Death to America." Here in this one-time capital of imperial Persia, 260 miles south of Tehran, things look different.

Along the banks of the Zayandeh Rud river, couples stroll amid pomegranate trees and gently swaying poplars. Fountains play from the ramparts of a newly restored stone bridge. And in the 17th-century covered bazaar adjacent to Nagsh-e-Jahan Square, ...

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