October 28, 2013
RHETORIC BECOMES REALITY:
Message of peace replaces anti-US billboards in Tehran (ILAN BEN ZION AND LAZAR BERMAN, October 27, 2013,Times of Israel)
Officials in Iran's capital have ordered that anti-American billboards be taken down, and in their place a message of peace was plastered over a major Tehran thoroughfare.In a possible sign of thawing ties between Iran and the West, the state-run news agency IRNA on Saturday quoted a Tehran city hall spokesman saying the municipality ordered the removal of the posters because the organization responsible didn't get approval for the advertisements.
Posted by Orrin Judd at October 28, 2013 7:26 AM
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