They don't have Burka Barbies?
Agency: Iran shuts down shops selling Barbie dolls
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TEHRAN, Iran
(AP) -- Police have closed down dozens of toy shops for selling Barbie
dolls in Iran, part of a decades-long crackdown against "manifestations
of Western culture," the semiofficial Mehr news agency reported Friday.
Barbie
dolls are sold wearing swimsuits and miniskirts in a society where
women must wear headscarves in public, and men and women are not allowed
to swim together.
A ban on the sale of the
Barbies, designed to look like young Western women, was imposed in the
mid-1990s. In its latest report, Mehr quoted an unidentified police
official as saying authorities confiscated the dolls from Tehran stores
in a "new phase" of the campaign.
