Deceased DR. Moeen was one of the famous authors in Iran. In his Persian dictionary, he has explained about bicycle like this:
Bicycle is on of the vehicles that includes some gears. It moves through the turning of chain.
Definitely this explanation is not perfect and it hasn’t involved the other usages of bicycle. If DR. Moeen was alive, he definitely added the expressions like: Sport, Pedaling, Peace & Friendship message, Combat against traffic & environmental pollution, to the meaning of bicycle.
Also when Jules Verne was writing his book “all around the world in 80 days”, he never thought that somebody might go trough the world by bicycle (even for 800 days).
We are an Iranian couple:Somayeh(Nasim)Yousefi and Jafar Edrisi. After mountaineering and rock climbing in some years and meeting some people who have gone through several countries by bicycle, we made decision to go on a trip.
Yes. We decide to ride through some countries for about 2 years. The beginning of our plan is at the middle of April, 2007 and we will cycle about 20000 Kilometers by the message of peace & friendship and environmental conservation. Read more on Naseem and Jafar's site

Toronto-Iranians group has organized a session with them. They will explain their mission and will give a report of their journey from Iran to Canada through Europe:

North York Civic Centre, Council Chamber
5100 Yonge street, North York, ON
Saturday, Oct. 6, 2007, 6 to 9 pm