Sunday
Jan232011
Iran Journalism Special: Protecting the Nuclear Talks from Lady Ashton's Cleavage
Forget all the chatter about weapons, uranium stocks, and "break-out" capability at the nuclear discussions in Istanbul between Iran and the 5+1 Powers (US, UK, France, Germany, China, Russia).
The clear-and-present danger was the chest of Lady Catherine Ashton, the head of the 5+1 delegation.
It was the newspaper Iran, confronted with a picture of Ashton and her Iranian counterpart, Saeed Jalili, that saw the threat of cleavage. However, thanks to their quick-working editors and PhotoShop, the mutually assured moral destruction of the original photograph (right) was averted: