And not just any Iranian, but Nobel Prize Winner Shirin Ebadi. Link via al-Muhajabah. Cross-posted at Title VI.
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Shirin Ebadi has no first amendment rights, or any other rights, under US law. However, her US-based publisher does. I’d give the lawsuit a good chance of success — you can’t find a plainer example of a prior restraint on speech.
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