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Iran Closes Semi-Official News Agency for Alleged False Report

by PEP | June 2, 2008 at 03:57 am | 226 views | 1 comment

Another Iranian crackdown on news. The government says that Fars was guilty of "disturbing public opinion".

Oran's state news agency IRNA says authorities have ordered the temporary closure of a semi-official news agency, Fars, for false reporting and disturbing public opinion.

The IRNA report does not elaborate. But a governmental news Web site, Borna, says the agency was closed on Monday for three days because it carried a report that the head of Iran's Central Bank, Tahmasb Mazaheri, had been replaced by first vice president Parviz Davoodi.

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good stuff:

PEP, I like this story. It's good stuff.

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June 2, 2008 at 03:57 am by PEP, 226 views, 1 comment

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