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A1one - Street Art in Tehran
I think, everybody knows about the political problems in Iran - about the demonstrations, the violence, the vote rigging and so on… And I think, you can imagine how dangerous it is to comment these social and political issues over there. Then you also can imagine how extremely dangerous it is to make politically street art right there. Indeed the Islamic Republic of Iran has no laws, which prohibit graffiti or street art, but this means nothing. ...