The current Iranian regime has recently put on a diplomatic smiley face, presumably to make a nuke/sanctions deal with major Western nations. However, behind the smile remains a ruling, militant Islamic theocracy. Those fun loving beards in Tehran just revoked the license of a newspaper which had the (dare I say it) chutzpah to publish a photograph of George Clooney wearing a "Je Suis Charlie" button.
According to a Reuters report reprinted in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the offending three-week-old publication had supported a reform movement in the Islamic Republic. Now the Iranian newspaper will not be free to speak its mind, or anything, for that matter.
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