Museum Cover-Up

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Now that the Iran nuclear deal is a done deal President Rouhani is cashing in on his country’s new status as a “normal” country. One of the stops on his victory tour was Rome. To show respect for the new normal, Italian officials placed boxes over ancient nude statues in the Capitoline Museums to ensure that no nipple would go free.

Museum Cover-Up

The museum cover-up caused ridicule and scorn for the Italian government.

I got the idea for this from a Daniel Henninger column in the Walls Street Journal called The Humbling of the West.

 

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