Sean Penn Visits Tehran

With a press pass certifying him as an official news correspondent with the San Francisco Chronicle, actor Sean Penn, an outspoken critic of the Bush administration and the war in Iraq, made a visit to Iran this past week Penn, apparently, is looking things over as the Iranian Shiite Mullahs make preparations for their predetermined, "slam dunk" general elections scheduled for June 17.

A photographer caught him standing "inconspicuously" amidst thousands of Muslims at prayer. Other photos of his visit can be found here.

According to Reuters, Penn visited a mosque for Friday prayers and listened to worshipers chanting enthusiastically for, "Death to America!"

Penn was seen scribbling in a notebook. Charles Johnson at LGF, apparently having access to a remote military surveillance drone, recounts some of Penn's scribbles that he thinks he might have maybe deciphered from the high-altitude photos.