The funeral ceremony of Kiumars Pourahmad

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Thus a new national cinema which would respect and promote Islamic values of the Iranian society had to be created. First of all this intention required erasing the remainders of the Pahlavi regime. Consequently many film theaters had been destroyed or shut down during the Islamic Revolution. The theaters which managed to survive changed their usually Western names to Islamic and third world names.9

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