The American Council of Trustees and Alumni, a group that produced a "blacklist" of American professors who criticized "civilization" shortly after 9/11, has had a massive victory: Iran has adopted their policy goal of purging schools of liberal teachers. From the Times:

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Tuesday for a purge of liberal and secular professors from Iranian universities, the IRNA news agency reported.

"Today, students have the right to strongly criticize their president for the continued presence of liberal and secular professors in the country’s universities," he told a group of young conservatives on National Youth Day, according to the news agency.

ACTA should be proud. They wanted the same approach in the US, but thus far, it hasn't been very successful. I wonder whether this development will cause Senator Lieberman to rejoin the organization's board...