'Rosewater' Journalist Slams Brooklyn Art Vandals: 'They Finished the Iranian Government's Job'

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BY SIMONE WILSON

Maziar Bahari — the Iranian journalist jailed in 2009 after appearing on ”The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” and the man who inspired Stewart’s first feature film, “Rosewater” — has a word for the type of person who would deface a protest mural of a persecuted Muslim woman.

“They’re cowards,” Bahari, 47, said in an interview. ”They are like bigots and cowards all around the world. Ignorance is universal, and also cowardice.”

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