Macaca Moment in Iran
With parliamentary elections due next year, Iran's center-left coalition might be the latest victims of the YouTube effect. The would-be reformers are crying foul over the above video, which has been posted on a number of conservative Web sites and allegedly shows former President Mohammed Khatami shaking hands with a female supporter on a recent trip to Italy.Somehow the new media gotcha is not quite as satisfying when used by fundamentalists, but democracy's a bitch that way. The video is after the break.
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