"Government
anxieties about social networking featured in a
military parade held in the central-Iranian city of Isfahan on
Tuesday to mark Iran’s Army Day. In the course of the procession, military
vehicles bore oversized placards labeled “instances of soft war”, the first of
which was headed “damages of the Facebook internet site”. It was followed by
displays accusing western powers of “promoting bad hejab” (a reference to the
sartorial choices of secular Iranian women), and encouraging “new addiction:
shisha, cocaine, crack, and paan”. (Shisha is Iranian slang for crystal meth,
and crack refers to the least pure form of heroin, rather than crack-cocaine)."
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and excerpt: Tehran Bureau via Harry's Place
