May 23, 2004

A cinema employee takes down an advertising banner for the Iranian movie Lizard after the last showing in Tehran, May 19, 2004 [BBC news]. Iran's cinemas have succumbed to hardline pressure and stopped showing a hit film ridiculing the ruling clerics -- a move that could stifle pioneering film-making, film industry officials said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi

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