While men wear tunics, wide trousers fastened at the ankle and wool skullcaps, the women are often seen in colourful, layered skirts paired with matching vests. Their long headscarves are embellished with hand-stitched designs or ornaments.

One of the most concerns of traveling to Iran for many visitors is the Iran dress code. Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979 all women in Iran, including foreigners, have been required by law to wear loose-fitting clothes to disguise their figures.

Dress code for women in Iran They should wear a loose sweater, tunic or Manteau, long enough to cover the lower waist. The sleeves must reach the elbows and the legs must be covered until right above the ankles. Wearing jeans, leggings, ripped jeans and loose skirts and dresses is allowed.

TIL that, as a man, you can be arrested in Iran for wearing shorts. I just returned from Iran a week ago. All men wear pants except for a few tourists. If you wear shorts no one will say anything to you, you’ll just get a few dirty looks.

Law. Under the law, it is forbidden for Iran’s Muslim citizens to consume alcohol. Much of the alcohol consumed by Iranian citizens is smuggled from Iraqi Kurdistan into Iran.

Iran and Turkey are not Arab countries and their primary languages are Farsi and Turkish respectively. Arab countries have a rich diversity of ethnic, linguistic, and religious communities. These include Kurds, Armenians, Berbers and others.

Armenia has, at times, constituted a Christian “island” in a mostly Muslim region. There are, however, a minority of ethnic Armenian Muslims, known as Hamshenis and Crypto-Armenians, although the former are often regarded as a distinct group or subgroup. The history of the Jews in Armenia dates back over 2,000 years.

The constitution states Zoroastrians, Jews, and Christians, excluding converts from Islam, are the only recognized religious minorities permitted to worship and form religious societies “within the limits of the law.” The government continued to execute individuals on charges of “enmity against God,” including two …

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