Iran Closed

Last Friday in Iran Daily newspaper a caricature was painted showing a cockroach which was speaking with the accent of Azeri People. Up to this point everything was ok, but suddenly from Sunday some complaints start about the caricature and Azeri people said they think this picture is insulting them and they condemned for the caricaturist punishment. Two days ago the caricaturist was fined from his job and yesterday, when the judge saw that this new movement is not finishing they put him on jail and even arrest the owner of the newspaper and closed it.

Lots of noises for just one word which was said by a cockroach!!! Some of my friends said that poor guy should be punished because he had repeated the dirty jokes about Azeri or Lori or other local nations. But please wait and have a look at the whole story again. Do you think really that guy wants to insult kind people of Azerbaijan, or do you think that all these jokes which are heard everyday is made by strangers not by them? Or even more, do you think this new temporary wave which is arose everywhere is for sympathizing with them?

I think all of these arguments is very well managed to make a legal reason for closing more than 250 newspapers before. This time they are saying that we are paying attention to your demands so we close this one like the others.

But this axe of punishment shouldn't be always on the head of journalists in order to let them criticize leaders and powerful people to watch their jobs. It's a fact that if nobody feels freedom to express himself then no improvement is done.