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4 August 2016updated 09 Sep 2021 11:05am

Inside Tehran: how Iran is changing, one year on from the landmark nuclear deal

A report from one of the Iranian capital’s poorest and most conservative areas, and a trip around a new shopping mall in the north of the city.

By Dominic Waghorn

It should have made us nervous. We were filming Friday prayers in Tehran’s most conservative mosque and had made it to the front of the congregation when the chanting began.

Our lranian producer whispered to me, “They are shouting, ‘Death to America! Death to Britain!’ Don’t worry, this is normal.”

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