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I mean , whoever decided that platinum blond was the answer to all that ails the BH woman ? Now , 2,500 years later , little remains for the imagination , but Mr. Soufi is not dismayed.We walk through the Gate of All Nations , which is flanked by gigantic sculptures of winged , bearded men with the bodies of bulls . Glens Crossing was a town where respectable widows remained widows . He was the country 's first supreme leader , who died in 1989 , a man who brought about the collapse of the iron-fisted dictatorship of the former shah , Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , and effectively ended 2,500 years of Persian monarchy . Yet many experts , such as former UN Chief Weapons Inspector Hans Blix , believe it 's a cover for the secret production of nuclear weapons.There are myriad implications of this difference of opinion — thankfully it would be mostly theory and rhetoric during my month-long stay , this past May and June — but one tangible result is that a country just opening to Western tourism has now been clamped shut and braced for an international showdown . Trampled grass beneath her tennis shoes , the tempting aroma of grilling sausage and green peppers , sticky cotton candy on smiling cherub faces , hard-won stuffed animals wrapped in teenagers ' arms - all the same as last year , and the year before , and the year before that .