Iran Press: Mullahs Confused and Thrashing, Lessons from the Neighborhood………
“The authorities in Iran have closed down the country's biggest-circulation reformist newspaper, Etemaad, accusing it of breaching media laws. They also suspended publication of a weekly reformist paper whose managing director is the son of one of Iran's opposition leaders, Mehdi Karroubi. Hossein Karroubi told the BBC that the paper, Iran Dokht, was targeted due to his father's political activities………”
It will not last; they will be back in publication in one form or another. The people are as clever and creative as their rulers are dense. And they are determined to have a more open society.
Besides, the mullahs have not yet mastered the art of their neighboring Arab leaders: pretending to be open, but silently impose the tightest controls on the media, to the point of actually owning them- or owning their owners. That way they don’t need to close any newspapers, just send a few bloggers to prison occasionally.
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