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The Darkest Cartoons You'll See On The Middle East

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In late August, the state-friendly cleric Ayatollah Nasser Makaram Shirazi issued a fatwa deeming high-speed and 3G internet as haram. President Hassan Rouhani hit back in a press conference a few days later, joking about how the dowload time of a simple article on slow speed internet was long enough to make a person fall asleep.

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The conservative cleric Javar Shojooni, who was imprisoned under the Shah for his political activities and then rose to prominence under the Islamic Republic, recently told the journalist Masih Alinejad that the rotund bottoms of young Iranian women fire up the country's young men. Presumably the cleric believes that the offensive curves should be cloaked, to avoid creating disturbances among the male half of the population, who also presumably cannot refrain from such reactions.

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The conservative cleric Javar Shojooni, who was imprisoned under the Shah for his political activities and then rose to prominence under the Islamic Republic, recently told the journalist Masih Alinejad that the rotund bottoms of young Iranian women fire up the country's young men. Presumably the cleric believes that the offensive curves should be cloaked, to avoid creating disturbances among the male half of the population, who also presumably cannot refrain from such reactions.

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