Media-Iran:  Criticizing Regime Gets Reformist Paper Banned
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By Kimia Sanati  TEHRAN, Sep. 12, 2006 (IPS/GIN) -- Few were surprised by Monday's ban on Iran's leading reformist newspaper Shargh (East), which has for some time been boldly voicing dissatisfaction with the outcome of last year's elections bringing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power.
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Iran has urged the Netherlands to  prevent the screening of a film in which a right-wing populist  lawmaker plans to lay out his view of the Koran, a news agency  in the Islamic Republic said on Saturday.
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TEHRAN -- Iran accused Britain yesterday of insulting Islamic values by knighting Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" prompted the late Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa death warrant against him.
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President Gen. Pervez Musharraf came under fire Wednesday for the expulsion of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, with newspapers dismissing the government's claim that he returned willingly to exile.
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Iran has blocked four local photographers from exhibiting some of their work in Paris after certain pictures were deemed to be &quot;against Islamic values and mocking the image of Iranian women.&quot;
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An Iranian hardline watchdog body has banned a grandson of the country's late revolutionary leader from running in the March parliament vote, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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The former commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards has attacked President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over high inflation, the latest conservative to criticise his economic policies, media reported on Sunday.
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An editorial published by independent daily Pagah has criticized the government's recent move to limit media activities, impose control over the state-run media and dismiss the director-general of the National Radio and Television.
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The Iranian press is unhappy at the deal Tehran has agreed with the European Union to suspend most of its uranium enrichment in a bid to resolve the dispute over its nuclear programme.
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President Ahmadinejad's account rejected in Iran which is second only to Thailand for sex changes.
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The undersigned freedom of expression and press freedom organisations strongly condemn the decision of the Central Jakarta Court to sentence Bambang Harymurti, the editor of Tempo magazine, to a year&#39;s imprisonment for defamation.
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Pragmatists in Iran&#39;s clerical regime were under pressure from hardliners on Tuesday who lined up to condemn an agreement to suspend sensitive nuclear activities in line with international demands.
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An Azeri paper has demanded an apology from Iran for allegedly showing disrespect for the Azeri flag.
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Â· Officials back nuclear inspector's warning Â· Tehran denounces French extremism in row
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WEBSITES CLOSE to Iran&#39;s leading reformist party have been blocked by religious hardliners in the police bureau of public morals.
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By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI NEW YORK - When Iranian journalist Mojtaba Saminejad was sentenced to two years in prison for insulting the country's Supreme Leader, it was not for an article that appeared in a newspaper. His offending story was posted on his personal Web blog.
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TEHRAN -- After eight years of a bold but bungled experiment with reform, Iran's government is in the throes of a takeover by conservatives determined to restore the revolution's Islamic purity, according to Iranian politicians and analysts.