Financial Times: Authorities in Iran have shut down Shargh, a leading reformist daily newspaper, and detained its managing director for publishing a cartoon which allegedly insulted the volunteer fighters during the country’s war with Iraq. The cartoon comes at a time Iran is marking the 32nd anniversary of the war with Iraq – in Iran called the “holy defence” – during which volunteer troops wore headbands on which holy words were printed >>>
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Lucky them, this guys in jail for simply stating a true fact
by amirparvizforsecularmonarchy on Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:01 AM PDT//www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-197417...
Mr Javanfekr is alleged to have written in an official publication that
the practice of women wearing the chador, Iran's head-to-toe black veil,
was not originally an Iranian practice, but an import.
This is not an opinion, but a fact.