Barbie Conquers Iran
In an effort to safeguard "Islamic culture and revolutionary values" from gharbzadegi or Westoxification, Iran's prosecutor general, Ghorban-Ali Dorri Najafabadi, warned in a letter to Iranian Vice-President Parviz Davoudi, against the invasion of Barbie, Batman, Spider-Man and Harry Potter and demanded that the country's young be protected against them.
The ISNA news agency quoted the prosecutor as saying: "We need to find substitutes to ward off this onslaught, which aims at children and young people whose personality is in the process of being formed."
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