ABSTRACT
In January 2008 the well-known Iranian feminist journal Zanan (women) was closed down by the order of the Media Supervision Committee of Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. The closure was prompted by Zanan’s publication of a report a year earlier titled Koshte Mishavand ta Bokoshand (They Die in Order to Kill), which focused on the Iranian martyrdom movement (jonbesh-e esteshhadi) (Zarabadi 2007).1 The movement under the directorship of the World Islamic Organization Headquarters for Remembering the Martyrs (Setad-e Pasdasht Shohaday-e Nehzat-e Jahaniy-e Islam)2 has been recruiting both men and women for potential suicide missions since its inception in 2003 (Zarabadi 2007, Ayandey-e Roshan 2006).
