An image from Friday's protest "Down with US, Down with Israel" in Tehran
0540 GMT: On Thursday journalist and academic Eskandar Boroujerdi-Sadeghi offered this sharp comment, following the Supreme Leader's denunciation of the US-based production denigrating the Prophet Muhammad, "Khamenei will try to make a big deal of this film, to distract from sorry state of economy."
So it proved on Friday, as the regime called on crowds to gather and display their anger after Tehran Friday Prayers. But did the manoeuvre work?
Mehr did publish photographs of thousands in a post-Prayers rally, but State news agency IRNA --- which still feature pictures of Thursday's gathering in front of the Swiss Embassy --- did not. Nor did Fars or Khabar Online. Press TV posted one photograph and a short article just after noon, then walked away.
This morning the rally has disappeared. While IRNA continues the campaign against the Mohammad film, it does so through the statement of Iran's envoy to the UN. Fars and Press TV are both headlining the US extension of a waiver from sanctions for 11 countries restricting purchases of Iranian oil. Khabar is looking at the price of gold, the US Presidential campaign, and football.
Still, Boroujerdi-Sadeghi might have a point. No one is mentioning the state of the economy or the current exchange rate of the falling Iranian currency.
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