Iranian Daily Forced to Close Shortly After Debut

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Iranian Daily Forced to Close Shortly After Debut

A Tehran court has ordered the closure of the Farsi-language daily Ayene-ye Jonoub (Southern Mirror), which hit the newsstand a week ago, on charge of publishing articles "contrary to the law," the official IRNA news agency reported on Thursday.

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A Tehran court has ordered the closure of the Farsi-language daily Ayene-ye Jonoub (Southern Mirror), which hit the newsstand a week ago, for publishing articles "contrary to the law," the official IRNA news agency reported on Thursday.

The nationwide newspaper was suspended after its publisher Mohammad Dadfar had been sentenced to jail on charge of propagatingagainst Iran's Islamic revolution.

The court, in a letter to Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ahmad Masjed Jamei, cited 14 complaints brought against Dadfar, who is also a lawmaker from the Persian Gulf city of Bushehr, and asked for the suspension of the daily.

Some 82 publications in Iran have been closed and at least 1,800journalists have lost their jobs since the massive judiciary crackdown on the press three years ago.

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