Only kidding. But it may happen, after the revelation that the mullahs are arresting pet dogs. No, not vicious pit bulls, not escapees from the Vick ranch, but ordinary house dogs.
Why? Because, for a regime so crazed it could not be invented, people who own dogs are “morally depraved.”
One poor woman was walking her puppy, Jessica, when the police grabbed the pup and took her to a “dog jail” for the crime of walking in public. “We want to get rid of Western culture,” she was told. Westerners have dogs, ergo Iranians can’t.
A Mr. Reza Javalchi, who heads the Society to Defend the Rights of Animals, claims that in fact pet dogs existed in Persia well before Westerners started the practice. But this is quite beside the point. A couple of years ago I argued that the humorless mullahs sought, above all else, to deprive the Iranian people of fun.
Except for themselves, of course. The real doctrine of the Islamic Republic is, “if it’s fun, it’s evil…unless I, your master, do it.”
But they’re in trouble now. Our airedale, Thurber, is organizing…
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