Podcast: Dogs, Iran’s Political Animals

In Iran, dogs are political animals.

Many Iranians keep dogs in their homes as pets.

But hardline conservatives consider keeping dogs an affront to religious values.

Authorities increasingly take out their prejudice on the dogs themselves, and this has helped provoke a new animal rights movement in Iran.

Roland Elliott Brown looks at the stories that inspired our campaign, "Being a Dog is Not a Crime."

Read the full transcript of the podcast here

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