Everything about Iran (Persia) on Instagram: "During the 1960s and 1970s, Iran became one of the first countries in the Middle East to take animation seriously. Iranian artists, inspired by the Shahnameh, Persian miniature painting, and classical poetry, created worlds of color, movement, and imagination — worlds that were neither Western imitations nor Eastern repetitions. In those years, small but passionate studios in Tehran and Shiraz produced masterpieces such as Zal and Simorgh, Jamshid an