The story: An incident involving a hardline parliamentarian allegedly slapping a traffic police officer in the face continues to draw public fury and is making headlines in Iran. The country’s police force has now filed a lawsuit against the lawmaker.  Meanwhile, calls are growing for him to be disqualified over “slapping the law in the face”.

The coverage: Iranian conservative MP Ali Asghar Anabestani would have never perhaps imagined the backlash when he “slapped” the skinny young officer in the face...