ALGEMEINER
By Ronald Lauder
May 8, 2014
This week, the Islamic Republic apparently banned the popular WhatsApp messaging application, which is owned by Facebook, reportedly because Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is an “American Zionist” – a code word for “Jew.”
The state-run Iranian News Agency attributed the ban to Abdolsamad Khorramabadi, head of Iran’s Committee on Internet Crimes. Soon after, however, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani tweeted that the ban was not true.
…..The real meaning of the episode, however, is clear: As Iran has demonstrated many times, it is a dictatorship that uses anti-Semitism disguised as anti-Zionism in order to create bogeymen and control its populace…..
President Rouhani can tweet all he wants and smile in front of Western cameras, but his charm offensive cannot disguise the extremism, bigotry, cruelty, and repressiveness of the Iranian regime. Rouhani promised a change, including more openness. Yet on his watch, censorship of the Internet has been strengthened, not relaxed. Rouhani tries to present himself as a responsible statesman with whom the West can do business. Yet his regime still traffics in hatred.
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