Fox News (via Gateway Pundit) reports that Western journalists are being beaten and AP says the regime has taken other measures like jamming BBC signals and closing Al-Arabiya's office. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Which is why Hillel Neuer of UN Watch says NY Times columnist Roger Cohen should resign for his repeated apologetics of the Iranian government. I don't agree with the call for Cohen's head, but I do agree the journalist needs to eat crow.
And to Cohen's credit, that's exactly what he does. Cohen now writes:
I’ve argued for engagement with Iran and I still believe in it, although, in the name of the millions defrauded, President Obama’s outreach must now await a decent interval.
I’ve also argued that, although repressive, the Islamic Republic offers significant margins of freedom by regional standards. I erred in underestimating the brutality and cynicism of a regime that understands the uses of ruthlessness.
UPDATE June 16: Gotta love James Taranto's response:
The wonderful news is that this epiphany did not require a nuclear holocaust to bring about, only an apparently stolen presidential election.
