I worry also that this story brings attention to Bitcoin as a 'sanction buster'... when it's barely got off the ground as such and is more easily squashed.
+1
If you want bitcoin to survive in the long term, if you like bitcoin, don't go waving it around as the currency of Iran, or the Taliban, or anything of the sort.
Or, to
quote Satoshi during the Wikileaks/Manning furor, No, don't "bring it on".