Hot girls, fast cars, huge homes and a life of luxury – that’s present-day Iran for a new group of young friends who are taking social media by storm while also underscoring a class-based hypocrisy inside the Islamic Republic.
The Rich Kids of Tehran as they call themselves, began with a sole account on Instagram last month and grew steadily to Facebook and Twitter, gaining attention with three specific hashtags unusually paired together -- #lavish #lifestyle and of course, #Iran -- that helped them to establish more than 70,000 followers and growing.
The photos posted would be normal coming from any Western or secular country in the world: girls in bikinis, young men bare-chested posing poolside, groups of girls in their tightest Friday-night-best, high-end cars parked seductively in an upscale neighborhood. But from a place like Iran, where women are forced to wear head-to-knee covering in public and co-mingling with the opposite sex is strictly forbidden, it's a behind-the-scenes look at life in Tehran that some have heard tales about, but most people have never seen.
