Iran Bans Battlefield 3

Would there government possibly take as much or equal action on bootleggers selling copies of some other video game titles...probably. But sometimes you have to step back and look at the matter as a whole. Why do they not want this game in their country. Put yourself in the countries shoes as a whole. I'm guessing the majority of people waking up and having to deal with life during war are ones that look for an escape outside their everyday lives. For these teens and young adults who do that through some means of videogames. They're probably not going to want to play a games that hits that close to home knowing that a lot of them have lost loved ones and/or had their world turned upside down. Now the point I'm actually getting at is this is not one of those preachy things against war...and I'm sure most knuckleheads can see that. All I'm saying is that regardless whether the reason being the govt. or not I think in the end this is probably a good move for the majority of those people.

A.) Iran hasn't been to war since the '80s.
B.) Unless you count what they do to their own people who protest against the government.
C.) It's really a matter of freedom of speech.
D.) Why aren't there Russians & Americans up in arms over all of the deaths attributed to and against those countries in the game? I mean, the number I've killed alone with a.....

Freedom of speech is the most important thing. If a game came out taking place in Afghanistan and you played as an insurgent killing UN forces I can't say I would have a problem with that, despite being a member of the Canadian army.

"we believe the game is purposely released at a time when the US is pushing the international community into fearing Iran."
Doesnt Iran do this to itself ona daily basis whenever they open tehre mouth?

Doesn't the sanctions against Iran already preclude BF3 from ever coming to that country? Unless EA wants to stop doing business in America and sell exclusively to Iran....

So basically they are banning pirated copies. lol

I'm amazed it only took them this long to stop playing multiplayer and switch to single player. Their internet must have gone down.

At least by playing they can see their side actually have a chance of winning.