Khorramshahr city - Khuzistan Province

Khorramshahr was Iran's and Persian Gulf's biggest port before Iran\s revolution in 1979. During the war between Iran and Iraq which were clearly imposed by Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein in those ages, Khorramshahr destroyed and ruined after Iraqi invasion.

Now, after nearly 26 years from the beginning of the war, Khorramshahr is still a poor and lorn land, with heavy casualties you can see in your own eye every where in the city.

a view of a ruined house during the war in 1981 (picture took in 2006)

A poor guy sleeping in the street, while the temperature is around 50 Centigrade (120 Fahrenheit) and the humidity is nearly 100%!

At last, Saddam Hussein, the fearful monster of my childhood, the shotgun waver, the dictator, hanged for one-tenth of his crimes. If I want to explain how my childhood has been mixed up with his face and name, let me just recall the days, each morning my father was leaving home for work, I wasn't sure if I could see his face a second time. Each time the earsplitting alert was spreading to the town, and the bombers' voice were filling the sky, we were shivering in underground to see if we could taste the security another moment in our life.
by the way, he is gone... I'm sure with a fear of death, fear of the real judiciary waiting for him.

Damn, we are not human... should we make any sensible difference with beasts?
just few months ago I visited Lebanon like many other tourists from Europe, Middle East and Africa looking this way, beneath Lebanese and Turkish Kurds are dancing in Beirut's Sea-Side (Rouche street):

and Today, the lamb-like silent world, should face such scenes:

I can't even believe what's going on in Beirut and Lebanon. I hope to visit Beirut someday again, in peace and pacification. Lebanese are warm and kind people, maybe because this long, lifetime war has made them so calm. By the way, I hope they can get back home very soon, and live in their pretty land forever.

In an after war country (especially a civil kind) like Lebanon the most feeling you may have is how cruel human being can be with himself and how much insanity may have been spent to feed the hunger of madness called poletics. the rebuilt streets comparing the old boosted houses and buildings are the best result of two different side of human ability to construct or to destroy!
By the way, in Lebanon's economy something is interesting for me: the government's way of getting tax of three most huge industries: Energy, Telecom and Automobile.
with excluding few companies as Mobile and other Telecom facility provider operator, the government has soar up the fees as a main income model for its own. Broadband internet for 3USD per hour and mobile call for 1 USD per minute are some good samples.
In Energy business high prices on fuel and electricity power are the other signs of this approach. you can import any car (a 200K USD Hummer or a 15K USD 206) with giving out just 1000 USD as tax. so most of the cars messing around in city are brand new and gov makes its profit via the fuel...
I like the way they've chose!