Wookiees in Tehran

A scene of a march around Ayatollah Khomeini's tomb today in Iran, in memory of the 29th anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war, the one in which Iraq dropped poison gas on Iran (even though it never posed a WMD threat, of course) and in which Iran used its children to clear minefields.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2009/09/wookiees-in-tehran/27151/