Female Ninjas in Iran: Who Knew

Here is an interesting story, and what is more interesting is that the group is suing Reuters for defamation.

In February, Reuters sent Caren Firouz to photograph an all-women ninjutsu gym in the town of Karaj. His photos (which we also ran) appeared in a slideshow on Reuters' website. Now, Iranian state-run outlet PressTV says that several of those ninjas are suing Reuters for defamation. The Reuters story, according to PressTV, "accused [the women] of being assassins" whom the state is training "to kill any possible foreign invaders." There's no reason to think that these female athletes are actually state-run killers.

I guess it's true, when someone says "Ninja" people really do assume there is someone hiding in the shadows waiting to kill them, regardless if they run a hardware website or simply have a super cool motorcycle.

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