Iran news agency falls for spoof

An Iranian news agency has apparently been fooled into publishing a made-up poll from a satirical US website that claimed many Americans prefer Iran's leader to Barack Obama. Fars News Agency reproduced word-for-word the article by a spoof news organisation based in Chicago. The article cited a fake poll which found 77% of white, rural workers would rather go to a baseball game or have a beer with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, known for his tirades against the West, than with Mr Obama.