For it is still true that, while Tehran is a cross-section of the modern movement in Iran and has therefore had every attention lavished upon it, the other cities and provinces of the country have been correspondingly neglected. For Tehran have been reserved most of the fine new buildings, the best shops, the pleasantest streets and parks; and in Tehran congregate the most lively and cosmopolitan society —diplomats, merchants, engineers, cabaret dancers-and the cream of the Iranian upper classes, the officers, the courtiers, and so on. The atmosphere is rather that of a Ruritanian city-but with a background of such practical things as railways and factories.