Plans to locate the “International Freedom Center” on the site of the destroyed World Trade Center in downtown Manhattan are being quietly abandoned in the face of outraged lobbying by (mainly) victims’ families. From America’s Newspaper of Record this morning:

“Officials are searching for new locations — some away from Ground Zero — to house a pair of controversial cultural centers slated for construction next to the 9/11 memorial, it was revealed yesterday.”

New locations, huh? I understand there are some prime lots available in downtown Tehran.