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Iran’s Culture Ministry, which had announced that it planned to shut down news websites operating without a license, is now accused of targeting only conservative sites critical of the Hassan Rouhani administration while allowing Reformist news sites and those supportive of the administration to continue to operate without a license.
Hossein Entezami, Iran’s Culture Ministry’s deputy for media affairs, announced Sept. 5, “According to Article 7 of the media laws, news websites without a license from the Press Supervisory Board would be closed and the directors of the sites would be referred to the appropriate judiciary authority.”
