[Gargamel]

With further thought, this is downright scary.

The free world, in one form or another, is based upon the concept of free speech. People have right to say what they want. It encourages intelligent, and non-intelligent, debate on the various issues confronted by those societies.

These societies, Iran and other tightly controlled societies, don't have the option of parody. I'm not sure if a society that is force fed rhetoric from a state news agency could comprehend, on a group scale, the concept of a news source being totally satirical and untrue. To a lot of these societies, what is allowed to be published must reflect the view of the entire nation. That partially explains a lot of what is happening with this recent video. The concept of individual viewpoints must be foreign to them.