Undercover in Iran: Sex parties and cocaine behind closed doors but you can be arrested on the street for showing a lock of hair
The sex clubs are thriving, with girls dressed in tiny gold pants and bikini tops joining in wild orgies while heroin is now cheaper than a bar of chocolate.
Yet this isn’t some new wild resort in the Far East… this is Iran, one of the most authoritarian countries in the world.
On the streets of Tehran women are banned from even wearing lipstick or nail varnish while the country’s hardline ruler Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has outraged the world by sentencing mother-of-two Sakineh Ashtiani to be stoned to death for adultery.
Yet despite Iran’s draconian laws there’s also a thriving if secret world of all-night parties and drugs.
“This image of a country of dutiful citizens which Ahmadinejad likes to portray to the world is all a sham,” says Iranian Roxana Shirazi. “It might be taking part underground, but there are sex clubs and orgies happening every night in Tehran. And I’ve seen it first hand.
“If you hear of a party no one is told the address as it’s too risky because someone might leak it to the police.
“You are just told to follow a car to a particular house. The risk is enormous because if anyone is caught at these parties they risk being executed. But that’s all part of the thrill.
“Drug dealers selling cocaine and ecstasy are doing a roaring trade in Iran. Opium is cheaper than chocolate and easier to get hold of. But you can also get ecstasy, cocaine and home-made alcohol.
“All the sex clubs and orgies are in the northern part of Tehran where the rich kids lived. I remember going to one party after meeting a guy on a street corner then following a car to an address.
"A guy met us at the door and then we headed upstairs to a flat. Ecstasy and cocaine was being handed round and a girl in the corner was having sex with two guys at the same time.
(Continued, this world is Rationalia to the core and there is gonna be no war whilst the party is on.)
