Now drivers of a far less humble - and much faster - make have the country's traffic police on high alert after a fatal crash involving a Porsche, which has caused a storm on social media about the shenanigans of the well connected super-rich.
Police confiscated 47 luxury cars in a seven-hour spell in Tehran's affluent northern neighbourhoods on the evening of May 7 for "causing problems and danger", according to ISNA, an Iranian news agency.
The accident killed the 20-year-old female driver and the passenger, Mohammad Hossein Rabbani-Shirazi, 21, the car's owner, who happened to be - embarrassingly for Iran's ruling theocratic establishment - the son of a prominent ayatollah.
The event caused further scandal when it emerged that Mr Rabbani-Shirazi was engaged to another woman - meaning he was breaching Iran's stringent religious laws on gender segregation between unrelated men and women at the time of the crash.
A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of that reason of which we so much boast.
