Fortune-tellers popular in Islamic Iran http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSBLA46832720071126?sp=true
Sun Nov 25, 2007
By Zahra Hosseinian
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Clerics in the Islamic Republic of Iran frown on the practice, but Nazanin says she has more customers than ever wanting their fortunes told.
Sitting behind a computer in her Tehran apartment, she predicts the future based on her knowledge of "jyotish" -- the science of light -- a practice related to astrology which she said is thought to have originated in ancient Persia. http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSBLA46832720071126?sp=true