Lust for life The west portrays the people of Iran as prisoners of an oppressive state. But Anoek Steketee’s photographs reveal their everyday lives to be not so different from our own, says Azar Nafisi Saturday July 1, 2006The Guardian What images come to our mind these days when we think of Iran? The Iranian president, Dr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, wearing his usual smirk, looking like a naughty kid who has just got away with breaking the neighbours’ windows, clerics making furious speeches, women dressed in their mandatory veils, public meetings, protests, interviews with citizens forced to make the appropriate statements