Too Much Suckling: Roma Team Responds to Iran TV's Logo Meddling
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AS Roma made a peace offering to Iran, starting a Farsi-language Twitter account after a television station set off a storm by blurring part of the Italian soccer team’s iconic logo of a she-wolf suckling twins.
The altering of the image, which is also the city’s ancient symbol, on a sports program drew taunts and criticism from Iranians, who took to Roma’s Twitter account to express their shame and frustration at how the state-controlled television exercises authority over what viewers hear and see.