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Living in Iran isn't all that bad – at least if you belong to the top one percent. An Instagram account called "Rich Kids of Tehran" has made that fact abundantly clear.
The account purported to show "the world how beautiful Tehran and people from Tehran are," and featured photos of Iranian youths flaunting Rolexes and Maseratis, sunning themselves by the pool, and living the high-life in general, much like rich kids everywhere.
The expansive media attention that the account had drawn evidently prompted its owners to delete the images on Thursday, after the publication of this report.
Most interesting were the photographs showing skimpily-clad women, in flagrant violation of Iran's dress code, which mandates a hijab, or head garb, for women. Other photographs even showed what appears to be alcohol, also illegal in the Islamic Republic. According to Business Insider, though house parties and drinking are part of the lifestyle of Iranian youth, these activities are done behind closed doors, and definitely not exposed so freely over the Internet.
However, according to The Times, many of the youths featured on "Rich Kids of Tehran" are the children of Iran's business elite and are therefore untouched by the regime's harsh hand.

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