Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses
the 67th United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters,
Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)(Credit: AP)
A
major Iranian news agency, the Fars News Agency, is evidently not
familiar with America’s most popular parody news source. Without
attribution, the news site affiliated with the Islamic Revolutions
Guards Corps reprinted an Onion story, which
read, “According to the results of a Gallup poll released Monday, the
overwhelming majority of rural white Americans said they would rather
vote for Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than US President Barack
Obama.”
The Onion’s made-up poll was accompanied by made-up
comments, reprinted in full by the Fars News Agency,
including: ”[Ahmadinejad] takes national defense seriously, and he’d
never let some gay protesters tell him how to run his country like Obama
does.”
