NCRI – The Iranian regime’s own media has spoken out in protest at the censoring and restrictions imposed on their work.
More than one hundred media staff covering next week’s election have released a statement criticising the oppressive scrutiny of their news websites, including reporters from the state-run Fars news agency.
The Mehr news agency wrote: “The fact that a non-related source contacts the official media outfits and demands the deletion of certain parts of their reports, or filters the their websites, is something that has been employed extensively over the past year.”
Iran’s ruling elite is becoming increasingly paranoid about any critical coverage of the election, where all the candidates have been effectively selected by the Supreme Leader and which is immersed in claims it will be engineered to produce Khamenei’s desired result.
In recent days, even candidates selected to stand by the regime’s Guardian Council have criticised limitations imposed on country’s Internet.
On Wednesday, Mohammad Reza Aref the Internet is turned on and off at will.
