18/01/2008 / IRAN

My little bomb

Since being posted just over a year ago, this video has been viewed almost 200,000 times. The song is an altered version of an Iranian nursery rhyme that's usually sung as part of a popular children's game. Our young Observer, Delazad, has translated and sub-titled it.
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Delazad Deghati

At the end of the clip, ‘Ahmadi' says that he wants to go back to his job as a rubbish collector. This is a reference to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's presidential campaign, when he donned street-cleaner overalls to show that he felt close to the working-class people.

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