The story: In Iran, the outspoken Reformist Faezeh Hashemi, daughter of late former president Akbar Hashmei Rafsanjani, is facing a torrent of outrage after saying that she favored the reelection of Donald Trump as US president. This is since, in her view, such a development could have triggered further pressure on the Islamic Republic. 

The coverage: Unsurprisingly, Hashemi’s comments have unleashed an incessant barrage of ferocious attacks from Iran’s hardliners, who have long found her occasional remarks and stunts as against the very tenets of the Islamic Revolution...