Iran orders the closure of a pro-reform newspaper
TEHRAN, Iran: Iranian media are reporting that the country’s General
Prosecutor has ordered the closure of a reformist newspaper on charges
of insulting the Shiite religion.
The Friday reports say that the “Sedayeh Eslahat” newspaper was ordered
shut down for publishing an article on female-to-male gender
reassignment surgery. The prosecutor, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, ordered
the editor be punished, too, the reports said.
On Thursday, a headline on the newspaper’s front page read: “Ruqayyah became Mahdi after 22 years.”
Ruqayyah was the daughter of Hussein, a Shiite Imam, and the article was
published during Muharram, a holiday in which Shiite Muslims mourn the
death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the prophet Muhammad.
According to Shiite beliefs, Mahdi is the name of the 12th Shiite Imam who has lived since the 9th century.
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