IS: Iran publishers want protection after attack
Ian Chai
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TEHRAN, Iran (Reuter) - Iranian publishers demanded state
protection after the offices of a publisher which brought out a
book deemed anti-Islamic were set ablaze, a newspaper reported
on Thursday
In an open letter to President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
printed in Akhbar newspaper, more than 40 publishers asked the
government to ``deal legally with anti-cultural elements and
book burners.''
They were referring to the attack in Tehran last month
against the offices of the publishers of a novel accused of
mocking Islamic activists as sexual deviates.
...
Jannati said the attackers were following a directive by the
late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urging
people to stop ``corruption'' if the authorities failed to do
so.
The hardline press had earlier criticised Morgh-e Amin for
publishing ``And Gods Laugh on Mondays,'' a first novel by
Mohammad Reza Khoshbin Khoshnazar. The weekly Sobh said it
portrayed Islamic activists as ``brainwashed people and sexual
deviates.''
After the controversy in the press, authorities banned the
novel and seized the remaining copies of it.
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