Iranian government now claiming Facebook and Twitter were created to help the Mossad and CIA

From Tom Gross, comes a report from the Iranian regime that would be pretty funny if it weren’t a window into the mendacity and oppressiveness of the Iranian regime. It seems that Iran wants people to believe that popular internet social networking sites were really created to undermine the Iranian regime. Being attacked by the Iranians might even finally succeed in making Mark Zuckerberg likable by comparison:

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