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Saving Face: Navigating Land Mines with Ritual Politeness in Iran

After sixteen years of production, the premier Iranian feminist monthly magazine, Zan an, had its license revoked in 2008 by the Iranian Press Supervisory Board. The fact that the Iranian authorities closed the magazine is not surprising, and there was certainly legal precedence for this: the 1986 Iranian Federal Press Law sanctions the closing of publications for a wide range of political and religious reasons including arguing against Islamic morals; endangering the “security, dignity and interests of the Islamic Republic of Iran;” insulting Islam, Ayatollah Khomeini, or other senior clerics; or committing “libel against officials, institutions, organizations and individuals in the country even by means of pictures or caricatures.” Between 2006 and 2008, forty periodicals were banned by the Press Supervisory Board, and