Iran is not just Tehran
"Iran is not just Tehran" is a slogan coined by the Tudeh Party of Iran in the early 1940s, originally used to convey importance of the provinces and voice "regional grievance against the capital.” == Later notable uses == The phrase is used by Lonely Planet and other travel guiding sources to point that by local standards Tehran is a "virtually new" city and tourist attractions located elsewhere in Iran are more interesting. Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel used the slogan to argue that 2009 Iranian presidential election was not fraudulent and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has beaten Mir-Hossein Mousavi: "Does Mousavi know how many people voted for Ahmadinejad in the rural areas and in the villages?