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More photos, comment, etc on this here:
http://fryingpanfireblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/images-for-a-new-age-tehran-street-art/
and here:
http://fryingpanfireblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/turban-warfare-tehran-street-art-pt-2/