‘I have sort of broken taboos’: Iranian woman polishes cars and her dreams

Iranian car detailer Maryam Roohani polishes a car at a detailing shop in Tehran (Vahid Salemi/AP)

At a garage in Iran’s capital Tehran, a female car polisher has battled sceptics and stereotypes to live out her dream of working as a professional detailer.

Maryam Roohani grew up in a rural, tribal village in Iran’s north east, where women are married off after puberty.