AP — A joke by the satirical newspaper The Onion appears to have gotten lost in translation in Iran.
An Iranian news agency has picked up as fact a story about a supposed survey showing a majority of white Americans would rather vote for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than President Barack Obama.
The story was made up, like other stories in The Onion.
The English-language service of Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency republished the story Friday, several days after it appeared in The Onion.
The Iranian version is copied word-for-word from the original. It leaves out only The Onion’s description of Ahmadinejad as “a man who has repeatedly denied the Holocaust and has had numerous political prisoners executed.”
