Bluetooth seems to be a way of life in Iran. It is used to pass round anything anyone within a 20 metre distance of you thinks you might be interested in. Switch your phone to Bluetooth in any bus, train, or café and you will be immediately bombarded with images, video clips and messages of varying kinds; messages to pass the time and messages to flirt. For in a staunchly Islamic country, where opportunities for interacting with the opposite sex are severely restricted, it sits alongside the internet and parading up and down designated streets in cars, as the main vehicles to do this.
From the phone name, and with a little eye contact you can usually work out who a given message is from. This image was sent to me on the bus to Esfahan, I think by the blushing girl in a full chador three seats behind me…
From the phone name, and with a little eye contact you can usually work out who a given message is from. This image was sent to me on the bus to Esfahan, I think by the blushing girl in a full chador three seats behind me…
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