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Ноябрь 10th, 2008

Meet Iran’s New Travel Promoter . . . USA Today?!

By Debbie Schlussel

When the country ushers in a President-elect who wants to make nice-nice with the modern-day Hitler-in-waiting, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the country’s most read newspaper, McPaper, apparently feels it’s its job to promote tourism to that bastion of extremism and Jew-, Christian-, and America-hatred.

Who cares about the suffering U.S. economy, and why promote tourism to Maui, Sedona, Coral Springs, or San Diego, when you can promote tourism to that luxe paradise we all wish we could visit . . . Tehran?!

This was the cover story of Friday’s USA Today “Destinations & Diversions” section. It’s written by reporter Laura Bly, who tells us that Iran–this country whose leader says the Holocaust never happened, but wants to bring on the next one–is “welcoming” and “await[s] intrepid Westerners.”

I think a lot of things about Iran, but a “diversion” and “welcoming” aren’t the first words that come to mind–unless you’re an extremist Muslim or one of those three whacked out nutjob self-hating rabbis who agree with the mad Ahmadinejad’s worldview. Yup, USA Today is Iran’s new Ministry of Tourism-American Auxiliary:

And after this article, there was a companion USA Today piece about how not all women in Iran wear the download movie hijab–the Muslim headscarf. Big whoop.