NCRI – The American news TV network CNN has been banned from working in Iran for practices "contrary to professional ethics," state-owned news agencies reporeted on Monday.
An official of the clerical regime told the AFP that the ban was imposed on the network for quoting mullahs’ president Ahmadinejad as saying his country was seeking nuclear weapons.
During CNN’s live broadcast of a press conference by Ahmadinejad on Saturday, he was quoted as saying "we believe all nations are allowed to have nuclear weapons" and that the West should not "deprive us to have nuclear weapons."
"Taking into account CNN’s actions contrary to professional ethics in the past years and their distortion of the president’s comments during his press conference on Saturday, the activities of the CNN journalist in Tehran will end and no journalists from CNN will be authorised to come to Iran," a statement from the Iranian culture ministry said.
