In an apparent bid to outdo Osama bin Laden, Iran's democratically elected (duh) new president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad this week got his burka in a twist. He has banned all foreign films in an effort to wipe out -- eew! -- 'corrupt Western culture'.

Does the Iranian President have the authority to ban films? Just like that?

Elements that were specifically named as affronts to the government's vision of Iran's Muslim culture included alcohol and drugs, secularists, liberals, anarchists and feminists.
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