IranWire:

An ultra-conservative Tehran blogger recently alleged that a beloved 1985 Iranian children’s puppet movie, “The City of Mice,” was created “in service of Zionism ideals,” aiming to subliminally depict and endear the history of Jewish people to Iranian youngsters.

Such accusations are nothing new in Iran's cultural scene, where hardliners routinely wage assault on secular artists, framing their work and perspective in the context of the regime's ideological animosity with its enemies. But often times in Iran, the timing of such allegations raises distinct worries of a more practical kind, as renewed pressures on the Iranian film industry are often signaled by such oblique cultural attacks. Could this herald a fresh crackdown on the the country's actors, screenwriters, and directors?

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