Tuesday, June 29, 2004

Ha Ha Ha Ha ha. huh?

We could all joke about restrictions against taking pictures of certain completely public, outdoor landmarks -- until now.

Two Iranians -- security guards for the Iranian UN mission -- fiming bridges, tunnels, the Statue of Liberty were expelled from the US. No law was broken.

We've always expelled members of foreign missions when we've gotten evidence of spying. But that's not the case here -- what they were doing was indistinguishble from being tourists. In fact, they may have been doing nothing different from what millions of tourists do every year, but were singled out because they work for the Iranian UN mission. Iran is presently being pressured to renounce ambitions for nuclear weapons. Perhaps this is just more of it.

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