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Iran papers closed for printing critical letter
Iran’s judiciary has shut two pro-reform dailies for printing a letter accusing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of heading a system that abused people’s votes, journalists said yesterday. The liberal Eqbal and Aftab-e Yazd newspapers were sealed late on Sunday by order of the Tehran Prosecutor’s Office, journalists at the newspapers said. It was not clear how long the newspapers would be barred from publishing, they said. “Both papers published a letter which was critical of Khamenei,” Issa Saharkhiz, a liberal journalist and former deputy culture minister, told Reuters.
Criticising the Supreme Leaders is a crime and many journalists have been tried and dozens of newspapers closed in Iran for similar offences in recent years. The letter to Khamenei was sent by moderate cleric Mehdi Karroubi, who came third in presidential elections on Friday. Karroubi said military organisations had broken the law by supporting hardline Tehran Mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who came second in the poll and will now contest a run-off on Friday against former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
“You should prevent such involvements to save Islam, the revolution and the country,” Karroubi said in the letter, a copy of which was faxed to Reuters. Karroubi said he was resigning from his posts as an adviser to Khamanei and as a member of the Expediency Council arbitration body to protest against the alleged electoral irregularities. State broadcast media and the official IRNA news agency carried no reports on the letter and only Eqbal and Aftab-e Yazd, out of dozens of daily newspapers in Iran, published it.
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