Iran Closes Top Reformist Paper after "Insulting" Cartoon

[New York Times] Nazila Fathi - Iran's press monitoring agency shut down four publications on Monday including a major reformist newspaper. The reformist daily Shargh was shut down indefinitely because it refused to replace its director and because it published a cartoon considered insulting to the government, state-run television said.


2006-09-12 01:00:00

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