Jump to full article: China Radio International (CRI) (cn), 2008-12-04
Intro: Iran's cafe owners have demanded for hookah rights, Iran's satellite Press TV reported on Wednesday.
"Dozens of cafe owners have staged a demonstration in front of the Iranian parliament (Majlis) to protest against a ban on their activities" to sell hookah to their customers, the report said.
The demonstrators, who were from the Iran's central city of Isfahan, said that their cafes had been closed by authorities despite an official order by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that they could be reopened.
"Police and health authorities in Isfahan are preventing us from doing our jobs despite a presidential order," a demonstrator was quoted by Press TV as saying.
Reportedly, last year, Iran's police forced the cafes around the country to quit selling hookah which was circulated as a part of social health crackdown.
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