Iran media falls for spoof on Ahmadinejad
Iran's state media was fooled by a satirical US website over a made-up poll, which claimed that a majority of rural white Americans would vote for Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad instead of US President Barack Obama. Fars News Agency, a semi-official media outlet of the Iranian regime,/ earnestly published a word-for-word duplicate of an article from the 'Onion', a spoof news organisation based in Chicago, The Telegraph reports. According to the paper, the satirical article by Onion cited a fake Gallup poll, which found that some 77% of ...
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