Burying the Lede - in Dung!

Sean Penn "reports" from Iran:

We were sitting in Nayeb restaurant in central Tehran. I’d been holding a piss through the hours of prayer service. So after I ordered my lunch, I excused myself to the men’s room. “Men’s” was written in Farsi above, and “Manly” in English below. I stepped into the water closet, grateful to just have a piss. If I’d had more serious business there, it would’ve been a squat job with no hook for one’s jacket. Now, that would’ve been manly.

After lunch we had an appointment with Mehdi Rafsanjani, a campaign director and son of former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

And his section header?:

For better and worse, U.S. is a role model

Don't you dare call him unpatriotic.

Or an inept journalist who is being used as a propaganda mouthpiece, in case you were of half a mind to...

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