Shirin Ebadi Banned

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi is suing the United States for banning her memoirs. That is the most surreal development yet under an administration ostensibly dedicated to promoting free speech in the Middle East. Her work is banned under sanctions laws, which doesn't even make sense from a national security perspective, since people need to be educated about parts of the world in which we have vital interests. I know of no country except perhaps the Vatican City whose economy would be seriously hurt by literary sanctions.