USA Today's Article on Iran's Hijab

In Iran, open arms, rich history await intrepid Westerners - USATODAY.com

TEHRAN — "Beyond our ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there."— Rumi, 13th-century Persian poet

Bob Augustine's last encounter with Iran was on a Pan Am plane, a few days before Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini took control as architect of the country's fundamentalist Islamic revolution. He remembers the panicked faces as plainclothes security men yanked passengers off the jet just before takeoff, and the sobs of relief when their pilot announced they had cleared Iranian airspace.

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Thirty years later, the retired telecommunications executive from Bonita Springs, Fla., is back in the Axis of Evil — as a tourist.