This “Correction and Amplification” appearing in today’s Wall Street Journal and relating to this article is emblematic of the declining standards at the once venerable newspaper.

A front-page article Tuesday on the issue of Iranian influence in Iraq incorrectly reported that U.N. resolutions don’t ban Iran from small-arms exports.

Do they not have editors and fact checkers any longer at the Wall Street Journal? Perhaps their Internet is down and they’ve lost all access to Google and the other search engines, because a quick Google search yields the text of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1747 which in paragraph 5 prohibits Iran from exporting “arms and materiel.”

Google is your friend, particularly if you are a reporter.

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