and obscene so that it promotes prostitution; 6. Using sex appeal and pictures of naked women or men as works of art or as any other title; 7. Publishing pictures such as dancing, lushing and vice parties that lead to the proliferation of prostitution; 8. Promoting philosophical and ethical materialism and the lifestyles which are contrary to Islamic values and ethics; 9. Misrepresenting Islam and true Muslims as a religion of violence. Politics and Society 1. Insulting, character assassinating, or defaming Imam Khomeini and the Supreme Leader, the president, maraji, and all others whose respect is religiously or legally required; 2. Propaganda against the Constitution and the Islamic Revolution and confrontation with them; 3. Instigating the community to revolt against the Islamic Republic and Islamic Revolution; 4. Promulgating militant groups and counterrevolutionary elements, terrorists, secular systems, royal and Pahlavi monarchy, and purifying their negative faces; 5. Propagating and promulgating dependency to authoritarian powers and opposing the country's independence; 6. Propaganda against national interests and security, and misrepresenting the Islamic Republic as a dysfunctional government; 7. Doing harm and creating doubts in the national unity and the territorial integrity of the country and making chaos, conflict and disputes among different ethnic groups and religions; 8. Undermining and ridiculing national pride, patriotism, scientific and practical capabilities of Iranians, national culture, and Iranian ethnic groups; 9. Spreading and advertising the loss of self-identity against foreign civilization and implanting the sense of backwardness among people; 10. Propaganda of Zionism and other forms of racism; 11. Distorting important historical events of Iran and Islam. Public Rights and Culture 1. Insulting and ridiculing language, culture and identity of ethnic groups, and ethnic and religious minorities; 2. Promulgating law breaking and debauching; 3. Propagating against family and undermining its value and position; 4. Spreading hopelessness, frustration, absurdity, and negative attitudes in society and increasing public mistrust; 5. Scorning and ridiculing different classes of society; 6. Propagating national and international cultural and artistic corrupted people; 7. Illegal disclosure of classified civil and military documents; 8. Degrading the identity of the national language. Print and Distribution Permits for Books Iranian publishers are required to obtain not only publishing licenses to establish a book publishing center, they should also apply for print and distribution permits from the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance for each book that they plan to publish. As stated in Article 3 of the Bylaw on