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Iran’s New TV Network Has No Sense of Humor

By Daniel Treiman January 3, 2008

The folks who run the Web site of a new Iranian government-sponsored English-language TV network— the Islamic Republic’s answer to CNN and al-Jazeera English —apparently don’t get the concept of satire.

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