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Monkey business in Iranian politics

Published: 25 February, 2009, 16:45

TAGS: Scandal, Middle East


An Iranian girl may have given father a real headache after she revealed on live TV that he named her toy monkey the same as that of the country’s president.

The gaffe happened during a live broadcast of a popular children show ‘Uncle Fornaj’, reports a local news agency. The show host asked a young caller whether she was a good and obedient girl.

She said ‘yes’ and that her father gave her a stuffed monkey doll. “My father calls it Ahmadinejad,” she responded to the follow-up question.

The media didn’t reveal whether Iran’s President Ahmadinejad knew about the incident or if the honest girl’s father faced any consequences for the choice of the toy monkey’s name.

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