Iranian newspaper to change controversial logo
Here is the new logo for Emrooz, a newspaper based in Iran’s capital city of Tehran:
Do you see a dancing woman in the logo? Some do.
I’m not quite sure when Emrooz redesigned, but the page on the left, here, is reportedly from a year or two ago. The one on the right is a more recent front:
Radio Free Europe’s Golnaz Esfandiari reports this week:
Last month a hard-line weekly Partoye Sokhan accused Tehran Emrooz, which is reportedly close to Tehran’s mayor and Ahmadinejad rival Mohammad Bagher Qlibaf, of redesigning its logo to make it look like a dancing woman.
The weekly, which is close to the ultra hard-line Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, explained that the letter “r” in the logo looks like the leg of a dancing woman. It also said that other letters in the logo have been changed to look like arms and a head.
The weekly called on the Culture Ministry to warn the newspaper over its logo.
These folks are quite serious. Apparently, banners showing the logo have already been defaced:
Esfandiari reports:
The editor in chief of Tehran Emrooz, Rasul Babayi, said earlier this week that the paper will amend the logo “with a sense of sadness” in order to put an end to the controversy that it has caused.
But not before folks have had at least a little fun with it. Here, an editorial cartoonist depicts parents discovering their teenage son, um, enjoying the logo:
And another web site suggested a series of tweaks to the logo to, presumably, make it less sexy. Yeah, y’know, this might work:
And folks at this site seem to be having a nice laugh over the controversy. My favorite comment, submitted by a reader:
What are the words the “dancer” seems to be crapping?
Find the original Radio Free Europe report here. Find the humorous tweaks here. Find the cartoon here.