Alongside the pictures of babies and food are some intimate portraits with Iran’s leading reformers.
This is Ahmad Khomeini II, the great-grandson of Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution. Ahmad lives in Iran, where most access to social media is blocked. But he's making his mark on Instagram nonetheless.
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Many of his pictures are typical of Instagram, like this photo posted on Dec. 21 of a delicious food spread in honor of the December solstice.
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Then there are some surprises. Here he is with two leading Iranian reformers — Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mohammad Khatami — in a picture he writes was taken four years ago today. He posted the same picture eight months ago too.
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Then there's this flattering photo of Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif posted last month. Zarif is considered a relative reformer, compared to the hardline faction that many ayatollahs belong to.
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