In The Land of Lion and the Sun....

It seems to me that there is a race in Iran among the politicians and other commentators to see who can make a bigger fool of himself. Alireza Afshar, the chief of Election Monitoring Committee- the body in charge of disqualifying candidates for the forthcoming General Elections- complained that the press in Iran enjoys "excessive freedom" and some of " those who had been disqualified" abuse this " excessive freedom"! He went on to say that this issue must be looked into....To be honest with you I do not know what he is talking about. Apart from those newspapers which are 110% pro government, there is hardly any press left to have too much freedom! One wonders if he is really talking about Iran....