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Anti-government activists are not allowed to express themselves in Iranian media, so theses activists have taken their expressions to another high circulation mass-medium, banknotes. The Central Bank of Iran has tried to take these banknotes out of circulation, but there are just too many of them, and gave up. For the activists’ people it’s a way of saying “We are here, and the green movement is going on”.
Following are examples of such banknotes, mostly written in green ink:
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1- V (for victory) stamp


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2- Top: Plan to write 1 Billion slogans on bank notes.
Bottom: Bank notes without slogan is like saying no to spring (of green movement)
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3- A re-write of a saying on the left side (Iranian people will find “knowledge’ no matter where – Prophet Muhammad) – Iranian people will find “justice” no matter where.
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4- They stole oil money and give it to Chavez
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5- Khamenei the non-believer is servant of Putin
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6- Based on a kid’s poem – How is Iran doing? It’s full of sorrow, its oil is gone, took its gas to India, got China’s garbage, everything is imported, exports are forgotten, close down all local productions.
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7- Cheater Khamenei and power-hungry Ahmadinejad
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8- People’s enemy
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9- Long live freedom
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10- Don’t believe what a government says if that government is the only entity that has the right of expression. (by Ali Shariati (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Shariati), called ideologue of 1979 Iranian Revolution)
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11- Top: Neda’s photo followed by death to dictator slogan.
Bottom: Logo of state media Voice and Vision of Islamic Republic with added swastika followed by “humiliated by our Voice and Vision”
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12- Top: Death to Khamenei is crossed out/colored
Bottom: Shame can not be erased by crossing out/coloring
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13- Blast from the past- A banknote from Shah’s administration is stamped by Islamic Republic to cover shah’s face.

Ba dorood:

Sepaas. I like number 8 the "public enemy" note.

EY MARDOM AAZAADEH
AAMAADEHIM AAMAADEH. :D

Didn't they come out recently and say that any currency with green slogans on it must be traded in as it is not valid?

Didn't they come out recently and say that any currency with green slogans on it must be traded in as it is not valid?

Yeah apperently, but didnt they try the same thing before, but couldnt cause there were just to many?

Iran deems “Green” banknotes invalid
By Trevor J. Murphy ⋅ December 31, 2009

Iranians must exchange graffitied banknotes for "clean" banknotes by Jan. 8, 2010. (photo courtesy Bloodwars Magazine)
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In response to the increasing circulation of banknotes scribbled with anti-government slogans (read Iranians shift protest movement to banknotes), the Central Bank of Iran said this week that it would no longer accept graffitied banknotes as valid currency.

Since the beginning of the Iranian Green Movement (the ink on the banknotes is often green, and the colour symbolizes the official colour of the opposition), the government has been struggling to deal with the rise of this covert protest movement.

At the beginning of December, The Pro-Democracy Movement of Iran deemed the Green Movement a success saying, “the Central Bank of Iran has tried to take these banknotes out of circulation, but there are just too many of them.”

The Central Bank is now telling people to exchange their graffitied banknotes for “clean” notes by January 8, 2010. After this period, any banknote with writing on it will be considered invalid.

The slogans on the banknotes oppose the recent reelection of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in what many, including Iranian reformist leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, have deemed a “rigged election” at the hands of the government.

Since June, banknotes have been in circulation with messages like “In this country, only the government has freedom of speech. Don’t believe anything you hear,” “Khanmenei the dictator, Ahmadinejad the puppet” and “Death to the Dictator.”

The Green Movement has also reverted to other subtle protest tactics like spray painting on walls and using a rarely observed religious holiday for a three-day strike.

Ba dorood:

Banking system in Iran is just a joke.

Not long ago, every bank started issuing their own "cashiers check" without any regulations or approval of central bank.

It took a few months to stop that and Central Bank decided to do it as a way to increase cash-flow. at the end of the year, they were in hole for 680,000,000 Tooman for paper used to print the checks!!! No body had bothered to look into it!!!

Fake notes are all over in Iran, just stop by a bank to get some cash, if they have it that is and they know you, then you would see that the clerk checks the notes under a light before hand them to you hence every so few, one or two note show up as counterfeit.

Mamlekat Eslam Naab Mohamadi Gol O Bolbol Hamineh!!