Wednesday, 18. January 2012
Topic: POLITIK - on January 18, 2012 at 12:45:00 PM CET
Iran: Morality Police Cracking Down On Barbie Dolls
Iran's morality police are cracking down on the sale of Barbie dolls to protect the public from what they see as pernicious western culture eroding Islamic values, shopkeepers said on Monday.
As the West imposes the toughest ever sanctions on Iran and tensions rise over its nuclear programme, inside the country the Barbie ban is part of what the government calls a "soft war" against decadent cultural influences.
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