Journalist and political analyst Nikita Smagin lived in Iran for several years and wrote this book. The result is a story about a country whose government sees the United States as the root of global evil and arms itself to the teeth to confront its insidious foreign enemies, brutally persecutes dissent within its borders, and values ​​religious taboos above family values. But "Everyone Iran" is also about people who know where to buy a bargain on a new iPhone, attend underground raves, and always pour a warm tea from a samovar for a dear guest (yes!). Bonus: a dictionary of strong expressions in Persian, without which it would be difficult to maintain a conversation about politics.

In 2004, I first visited Iran as a correspondent for Russian Newsweek. From my conversations with a wide variety of people, it was clear that the Iranian political regime didn't have long to live; so much of it was reminiscent of the final years of the USSR. But the Islamic Republic still exists and doesn't seem to be going anywhere. Professional orientalist and Iranologist Nikita Smagin discusses the paradoxical life of modern Iran, one of the most closed and poorly understood countries in the world.
— Alexander Baunov, political researcher, author of "The End of the Regime" (listed as a foreign agent by the Russian Ministry of Justice)