During a recent live broadcast of a popular children’ show on Iranian television, one young girl surprised viewers when she related how her father called her stuffed monkey ‘Ahmadinejad’, the name of the Islamic Republic’s president. An Iranian news agency reported on Tuesday that, during a telephone call that took place on the show ‘Uncle Fornaj’, the show’s host asked a young female caller whether she was good girl who obeyed her parents. “I’m a good girl and my father bought me a doll,” the girl responded, adding that the doll was stuffed monkey. “My father calls it Ahmadinejad,” she said in response to the host’s follow-up question.
