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ajiss-377		ajiss-377		25	.pdf	application/pdf	10596	515	60	In order to understand the motivation behind writing a book such as Nafisi’s, one just needs to ponder the author’s statement to the effect that many have become famous by writing against the Islamic government.141 Bahrampour even explains that when her mother wrote a fictional account about a woman whose innocent husband is executed in revolutionary Iran, a publisher was interested and asked if she would “go on TV and say its true. Despite the negative images of contemporary Iran that exist in the back- ground, Funny in Farsi is not really a memoir about Iran, and among the rest Marandi and Pirnajmuddin: Constructing an Axis of Evil 41 ajiss 26-2-final-1-obay.qxp 6/9/2010 4:08 PM	cache/ajiss-377.pdf	txt/ajiss-377.txt