announced Monday that it was refusing to send its team to a competition in Prague as a protest because the Czech embassy had declined to issue any visas for the team.
Come again? Iran is not sending the team as a protest— or because it doesn’t have the visas needed to send the team? Sounds like another example of the regime’s effort to try to convince the Iranian public that the government is on top of every issue and not outflanked by other countries—like its announcements that it refusing to sell oil to European countries after they stop buying Iranian oil.