Papers’ shutdown in western Iranian provinces

NCRI – The Iranian Resistance strongly condemn newspapers shutdown in western part of Iran and called on international human rights organizations and defenders of freedom of speech to condemn the increasing suppression by the mullahs’ regime in Iran.

Ten local publications lost their licenses in western part of the country, the state-run daily Rooz reported on October 29.

The Kurdish-Farsi language publications, “Manesht”, “Ha-Naran”, “Tariefeh”, the Turkish-Farsi language publications, “Oya-Nesh”, and “Kesahvarz-Javan” were among the publications shutdown by the mullahs’ regime. The reason given by the regime for the shutdowns have been “instigating ethnic unrest and publicizing leftist mentality in the country as well as wreaking Islamic and national unity.”
 
Also, the suppressive regime’s agents shutdown four other publications identified as  “Leeyakh”, “Gharb”, “Navai-Vaght”, and “Kaz-Boui” in the western provinces of Karmanshah and Kurdistan.

The mullahs’ Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Brig. Gen. Mohammad-Hossein Saffar-Harandi in regards with the shutdown publications said, “If a paper or magazine had been shutdown in this region and their publishers had been under legal proceedings”, it has been their role in “string up the public sentiment.”

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
October 30, 2006