That Giggly Iranian Cleric

There's a joke about a Pope who, arriving upstairs, asks to go to the archives so as to be able to research the ancient and early church documents since, as a young seminarian 60 years ago, he hadn't been able to devote himself to academic study, he was interested in going back to some serious studying.

Two weeks later, an awful shout is heard from the back stacks and running over, the angels find the Pope with his head in his hands.

"What is the problem?" he is asked.

"The word is celebrate I just discovered. Not celibate," he muttered.

Was that the joke this Mullah was reading?