Opposition to Iran's certifiables.

There is another side to Iran that bears no resemblance to the vermin that run the place:

For the average viewer of western TV, Iran is the land of "mad mullahs" and angry crowds chanting "Death to America! Death to the west!" Such a reduction of a country with a richly diverse culture is not simply the fault of the western media, but also of the Iranian regime, which never tolerated any other image of Iranian life apart from that which endorses its policies and ideology.

As Nasrin Alavi informs us in this enlightening book [We Are Iran by Nasrin Alavi], up to 100 publications, including 41 daily papers, have been closed down in the past 10 years for subverting the regime's self-image. But neither the banning of newspapers and magazines nor even the imprisonment, torture or murder of journalists and writers have deterred Iranians from seeking the means to express their opposition to hard-line rulers of the country.

"Don't mention the mullahs." By Samir El-youssef, The Guardian, 12/10/05.