The expatriates' visit also highlighted divisions among Iran's conservatives.
When the project opened, it was mostly expatriates visiting, Chan said.
He stood in the Dastan Gallery in North Tehran where Iranian expatriates visiting from the United States and Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, had gathered around a burned-out Paykan on display in the middle of the sleek gallery.
One returnee, Danning Meng, achieves official approval and financial security, but tells Nan, when the expatriate visits: The higher-ups want us to write about dead people and ancient events because this is a way to make us less subversive and more inconsequential.
But they returned after the war to resume their social pace with regular Sunday lunches for such notable guests as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the columnist Walter Lippmann, the author Louis Bromfield and an assortment of titled aristocrats, diplomats, expatriates and visiting Americans.
VALENCIA, Spain Longneglectedted as one of Spain's secondary cities, Valencia's role as host of the America's Cup this year and its ambitious efforts to showcase new architecture are enticing an increasing number of expatriates to visit the City of Oranges.
Hariri told Lebanese expatriates during a visit to Rome: "Threats that Lebanon now has huge missiles are similar to what they used to say about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq".
Visiting Iranian expatriates are shocked by the volubility with which their compatriots disparage the whole regime, not just the conservative bit of it.
Over the past 15 months many major aid agencies have complained of restrictions on movement, difficulties in obtaining visas for expatriate staff and regular visits to their offices by Pakistani intelligence officials.
That would pose a big concern in China, for example, where many companies rely on visits by expatriate engineers to make design changes in products assembled by large numbers of low-wage local workers.
