Tehran Shuts Papers Ahead of Election


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Cool Hand Luke 22:36
February 19, 2004, 02:54 PM
Hmmm...were Sen. John McCain and Sen. Russ Feingold in Tehran lately?

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Tehran shuts down papers ahead of election
By Mohsen Asgari in Tehran
Published: February 19 2004 9:15 | Last Updated: February 19 2004 15:24


Iran's judiciary on Wednesday night shut down two reformist dailies that had published long extracts from a letter by parliamentary deputies criticising Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader.


The judiciary also ordered internet service providers to filter three websites of reformist organisations. (shades of the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform & Incumbent Hacks Protection Act)

The moves come on the eve of the Islamic republic's seventh parliamentary election.

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7.62FullMetalJacket
February 19, 2004, 03:58 PM
You said it big guy. Like everything else, we are exporting our ideas around the world. Campaign FInance Reform to the rescue. Brought to you by:

Ayatatollahs John "I forgot where and who I am" McCain and Russ "Free Speech is only for Us" Feingold (could be stein?)

WHo is the US to even question a dictatorship from this type of censoring when we are still under the CFR?

J Jones
February 19, 2004, 05:52 PM
Hmmm...were Sen. John McCain and Sen. Russ Feingold in Tehran lately?

:D

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