The Association of Iranian Journalists (AIJ) have written an open letter to President Hassan Rouhani expressing regret that instead of pushing to have their guild reopened the president proposed a less controversial plan of starting a new guild.
“The Association of Iranian Journalists, with its duty as a guild and to defend the right to organize the Association of Iranian Journalists, expresses deep regret about the latest statements of the president that ‘the administration will produce a bill for a guild regarding journalists,’” the statement read.
