Iran Photo Special: Snapshots of Life and Living (The Atlantic)

The Atlantic posts a colourful, sometimes stunning collection of 42 photographs on the diversity of life inside Iran. We introduce the feature with these three images, but all of them reward a look:

Iranian grooms Javad Jafari, left, and his brother Mehdi, right, with their brides Maryam Sadeghi, second left, and Zahra Abolghasemi, before their wedding in Ghalehsar village, about 360 kilometres (220 miles) northeast of Tehran, on 15 July 2011. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

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