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Unlike the standard full-frontal "mugshot" style of US or UK passports, Iran requires a specific 3/4 profile . But not just any 3/4 profile. Your face must be turned exactly 45 degrees to the right. Not 44, not 46. You must look toward your right shoulder, but your eyes must look straight into the lens. This creates a biological impossibility: Your head is sideways, but your eyeballs are facing forward. It produces a look of extreme suspicion, as if you are trying to watch a thief while pretending to look at a beautiful sunset.

So next time you see an Iranian passport, don't laugh at the photo. Salute it. That person suffered for that image. They turned their head 45 degrees into the wind of bureaucracy, looked straight into the eye of resistance, and didn't smile. aks kos irani

We are talking about the – the Iranian passport photo. Unlike the standard full-frontal "mugshot" style of US