Although no one has ever accused the PBS and CPB of being negligent on politically correct bowing and stooping to nasty ugly regimes from North Korea to Chavez' Venezuela, Margaret Warner has been evicted from Iran, along with her TV crew.
She is the only foreign reporter so treated and believes it might have something to do with an interview of the parents of a prisoner in the dreaded dungeons of Tehran.
Warner is extremely sensitive to Middle East sensibilities and a warm gracious individual, and I suspect she speaks or at least understands Arabic, from her interviews on the West Bank and Gaza and elsewhere.
When you are dealing with a regime based on undemocratic procedures behind a facade of quasi-democratic fakery, you should expect gratuitous expulsions for practically no reason at all.
Comes with the territory.
"Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, ...the fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being govern'd, as the sea is, by the moon" [Henry IV, I.ii.31-33] HISTORY NEVER REPEATS ITSELF, BUT IT OFTEN RHYMES "There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America." Otto von Bismarck
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