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Covering the mêlée of missiles exchanged between Iran and Israel in April, many newspapers, including this one, used a similar photograph. It was of a woman wearing a hijab and walking past a mural depicting Iranian rockets. The choice summed up the things for which Iran’s thuggish theocracy is best known: sabre-rattling and controlling women.
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