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BF3 Banned in Iran
According to a an article in the Lebanese Daily Star, Electronic Arts’ military-based first-person-shooter, Battlefield 3, has been banned in the country of Iran because of its scenes depicting intense battles in the Iranian city of Tehran.
Interesting, though, is the fact that EA never made any plans to have the game sold in Iran anyway, meaning that all Iranian sales of Battlefield 3 were already illegal before this official ban.
The article notes that the government had received more than 5,000 signatures from “Iranian youths” via an online petition.
“We understand that the story of a videogame is hypothetical … [but] we believe the game is purposely released at a time when the US is pushing the international community into fearing Iran,” read a statement from the government.
Of course, since EA isn’t selling Battlefield 3 in Iran, they’re just fine with the ban, even releasing a statement on the subject reported by Industry Gamers: “In that Battlefield 3 is not available for purchase in Iran, we can only hope the ban will help prevent pirated copies reaching consumers there.”
To my understanding, there’s been a long history of popular western items being banned in Iran, as depicted in Marjane Satrapi’s excellent graphic novel, Persepolis. The way Satrapi illustrates it through her own experiences in the 1980s, these bans were measures taken by an oppressive regime.
All of this leads me to wonder just one thing, though: I wonder what the Iranian policy is on using the term “e-peen”?
Via Daily Star and Industry Gamers
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Soon they will have battlefield outside their windows.
A ban within a ban…. *Inception soundtrack*
dont they already have a battlefield in their backyard…? haha
why should they care, mostly every FPS sold in America has to do with Russia. How many time have u herd Russia complain about a game that has them as the bad guys. Not many, MW2 had a mission killing Russian civilians in an Russian airport as a CIA agent, Sure they banned it but play the 3rd mission and find out why. In no way did EA have Iran civilians killed or put a nuclear explosion in there city, unlike Paris which got blown to shit.
hey guys who the hell says that BF3 in banned in here ?? its illegal to sell not to play … lol and Fidor and Robert thanx for the support ! yeah war is really really good idea !!!!!! and cookie iranians don’t support this game because of our global situation u know every body thinks iranians are arabs and they are terorrist !!!!! and when someone don’t have any background about iranians they think persians are what zack snyder feeded the whole world …. “300″ ! this is atleast what we can do , we try to show our feedback to this game and this ideaology and about russians … are sure russians are cool with it ??!!
hello every one
i am from iran,my name is hamid ,We love the people of America
this game is not true about iranian,We love all people at World,We are not terrorists :(
Why do you think about it?
We were a victim of politics
i love you…..
hamid
My name is Omid and I’m originally from Iran, but I live in Germany for a couple of years. There is one point misunderstood by the world (and I’m not talking about US only) that Persians support the ‘Iranian’ government. I play BF3 and enjoy it, and I have friends in Iran who play battlefield and enjoy it. Governments ban doesn’t effect the gamers at slightest, even though all games except for PS3 are pirated.
A true Persian with 3000 years of background culture and kings who wrote the UN policy do never support the government or hate any country.
in iran we dont have copyright.all the people are playing bf3 now in iran.