August 12, 2003
Truh or...
Inspired by the great stirical works of Ibrahim Nabavi, I'll be attaching a beeping lie detector to various historical and current characters to measure their honesty. This is part of a continuing regular feature of this blog (1 - 2), under the title of "Truth or ...?"
Tehran's chief prosecutor Said Mortazavi : "Thanks to the Islamic revolution (beep) and the country's constitution (beep) (beep), the Iranian press and media enjoy the highest degree of freedom (beep) (beep) (beep), matched by only a few Western countries (beep) (beep),... In other words, the freedom of the Iranian press (beep) (beep) (beep) (beep) (beep) (beep) can not be compared with those in neighboring countries and the Middle East. (beep) (beep)"
[On the same day, in the news:] TEHRAN, Iran - More than 200 pro-reform journalists held a vigil in Iran, saying they were protesting a continuing media crackdown and a lack press freedoms. The journalists lit candles on Friday to mourn the anniversary of the death of Mahmoud Saremi, a reporter of the official Islamic Republic News Agency who was killed in 1988 by the former Taliban rulers in Afghanistan, and the death of Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi, who died in Iranian police custody last month.