The Latest from Iran (5 August): Please Shut Up....

1520 GMT: Labour Front. An article by the Iranian Labor News Agency warns that "reform" of labour laws, reducing workers' rights, will not solve the problem of unemployment and that workers will not forgive MPs who sign the legislation.

1515 GMT: More Battle Within. Mohammad Karamirad says he and two other MP have filed a complaint against the President's right-hand man, Esfandiar Rahim-Mashai, and Vice President Hamid Baghei and that Parliament is checking it.

Karamirad restated the demand made by other politicians and clerics, including hardline MP Mohammad Ali Bozorgvari: President Ahmadinejad must distance himself from the two men.

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Iran Video Special: How a Little Boy --- "Farnood the Truthful" --- Embarrassed the Regime

We turn to a children's show this week on Iranian State TV....

A group of children were asked what kind of activities they perform on their own. A small boy named Farnood proudly replied, “When I go to the bathroom, I wash my pee-pee on my own.”

The shocked presenter took a few steps back from Farnood, covering up his taboo reply with a non sequitur, “What do you do?! You turn on the washing machine yourself? No, no, no.”

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