Iran Video Special: How Regime Used "Ninjas" to Shut Down Press in Tehran
All the Regime Needed: Britain's ITN uses footage to portray Iran's "women ninja assassins"
Twenty-four hours ago, when we posted "Iran Breaking: Female Ninjas to Sue Reuters for Defamation", we did not as a serious investigation but as a follow-up poking fun at Iranian media using an over-blown story for propaganda against "Western" media.
Little did we know that, by the end of the day, the light-hearted would have turned so serious. Far from being just another episode in the "female ninja" PR saga --- which began with a Press TV profile at the start of February on women pursuing martial arts --- yesterday's presentation by State media was the set-up to shut down most of the non-Iranian journalists still working in Tehran.