The Terrible Tehran 

Author: Morteza Moshfeq Kazemi 

The Terrible Tehran Tehran-e Makhuf is the first Persian social novel, which was written in 1922. This novel is about female sex workers and is both focused on the lives of women and narrates the way in which women in Iranian society were treated. Following World War One there was a wave of political corruption and signs of decaying morals throughout the country that are depicted within this book.