"Mullah Golpayegani who wrote the edict indicated: "The use of fireworks, sparklers and fire crackers which will lead to fun, conviviality and frolic is 'haraam' and any further references to all Persian traditions and culture existing before Islam is directly anti-Islamic and immoral.""
These people could do with a good dose of seperation of church and state.
Actually, the merger of church and state would be a tremendous improvement for them. What they need is a separation of mosque and state.