Burning Man artist Gazelle Dasti knows that when you read the name of her hometown—Tehran, Iran’s capital city—you’re likely to picture cargo ships stuck in the fog-coated Strait of Hormuz, U.S. senators arguing, or people packing the streets of Iran for the slain leader’s funeral processions. But Dasti’s Iran is not the Iran of 2026 news photos. It is the Iran of everyday people. “I’m on a mission,” she said, sitting at her desk. A whiteboard b…
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