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Iran Closes Website Critical Of Ahmadinejad
September 23, 2007
September 23, 2007 -- Iran's judiciary is reported to have shut down the offices of a news website critical of President Mahmud Ahmadinejad.
Mehr news agency reports Baztab, a website close to former Revolutionary Guards chief and former Expediency Council chairman Mohsen Rezai, had been banned in April and is the subject of a legal complaint from the Iranian presidency.
After the April ban it was inaccessible to users inside Iran, but it carried on putting out stories to users outside the Islamic republic.
(AFP)