Where censorship is the rule rather than the exception

The uncomfortable truth is that revolutionary Iran is run by precisely the sort of theocratic nightmare totalitarian regime the Left conveniently imagines rules the United States, and awards itself tin medals for opposing:

From the moment that Islamic Culture and Guidance Minister Mohammad Hossein Saffar-Harandi took office in 2005, the list of prohibited books in Iran started growing.

A quick look at the books on the list confirms that there has been an increase in the intensity and recklessness of censorship in all areas.

The wide range of the banned literature includes Persian classical literature and gnosticism, a wide array of academic university books, some of the best-known world literature, and books illustrating a number of famous people from the Islamic world.

In the two years since Harrandi took office, more than 70 percent of previously published books have been banned from being republished, even though each and every one of those books had initially been given permission from the pre-Harrandi Culture Ministry to be published the first time.

Where is the hatred? Come on, you cowards, not one lousy papier-mache puppet parade to oppose these fanatics? Not one full-throated denunciation that doesn't come backed up with weaselbuts* and moral equivalence?

Oh, right, I forgot.

*New coinage for a common phenomenon. For example: consider every liberal at a dinner party, who says something like "of course Saddam Hussein was bad, BUT America..." or "Yes, Iran is a fascist state, BUT Bush..." or "Islam has some fanatics, yes, BUT the Crusades..."

"Weaselbuts." Often uttered by the "But-Americans".