Iran orders paper director's arrest for 'insulting' president
AFP / Hiedeh Farmani
01-Jul-2008 (one comment)

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran's judiciary on Tuesday ordered the arrest of the director of a leading reformist newspaper over an article attacking President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his remarks on the Shiites' "hidden imam."

Mohammad Javad Haghshenas, director of Etemad Melli newspaper, has been issued with an order for arrest and investigation on charges of spreading lies and publishing "an insulting piece", a spokesman for Tehran public and revolutionary courts told the ISNA student agency.

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Parham

no more national confidence

by Parham on Tue Jul 01, 2008 03:42 PM PDT

This is the article that has caused all the uproar.

 



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