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D’oh! no: Now Iran bars Bart

Last Updated: 3:21 AM, February 7, 2012

Posted: 12:57 AM, February 7, 2012

Don’t have a jihad, man!

Iran is blacklisting dolls of “The Simpsons,” saying Bart, Homer, Lisa and Marge corrupt the youth of the Islamic Republic.

“Imports of all kinds of dolls that display full adult figures are banned because they promote Western culture,” said Mohammad Hossein Farjoo of the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults.

But Spider-Man and Superman dolls can be sold because they “help oppressed people and they have a positive stance,” Farjoo told the independent newspaper Sharq.

His agency, which in 1996 called Barbie dolls a “Trojan horse” of Western values, recently closed down dozens of toy shops for selling Barbies.

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