Fight Club

September, 2007

TEHRAN^Apparently in response to the wide­spread circulation of a home sex tape believed by many Iranians to feature Zahra Amir Ebra-himi, a nationally prominent soap-opera star, Iran's parliament has passed stiff new penal­ties for involvement in the production of "por­nographic works." Under the new law, which passed by a margin of 148 to five, the definition of pornographic works is expanded to include electronic materials such as DVDs, and sen-