Shahrak-e Gharb
neighborhood in Tehran, Iran
Shahrak-e Gharb or Gharb Town (Persian: شهرک غرب, romanized: Šahrak-e Gharb, lit. 'West Town'), officially Qods Town (Persian: شهرک قدس, romanized: Šahrak-e Qods, lit. 'Quds (Jerusalem) Town'), is a planned town built as a massive project of modern, luxury apartment buildings and villas in the north-western part of Tehran, Iran.
History
Originally built based on the model of upscale American suburbs in 1961 by French architects, today it is considered one of the most affluent neighborhoods of Tehran. The town was built in seven "phases" (Persian: فاز), which now delineate its districts. Only Phase 1 was built before the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the rest was built by the new Islamic government. It is one of the largest districts of Tehran, including easy access to expressways including Chamran Expressway, Hemmat Expressway, Niayesh Expressway, Sheikh Fazl-allah Nouri Expressway, and Yadegar-e-Emam Expressway, proximity to four major hospitals, as well as three large and famous shopping centers, numerous parks, cinema and cultural centers, police and fire stations, and post offices.
Government hostility towards the West following the Islamic revolution of 1979 led to the neighbourhood being renamed to "Sharak-e Qods", literally "Jerusalem Town". The original name continues to be widely used. The area has a history of resistance to the Iranian regime; social anthropologist Shahram Khosravi calls it "a dissident neighborhood". In 1996 a teenager, Alireza Farzaneh-Far, died at his birthday party after falling from an 18th floor balcony after it was raided by the local Basij following a tip-off. Whilst the official version of events claimed that he fell when attempting to abscond, his family and foreign broadcasters charged that he had been pushed by a basiji.
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