Another Iranian paper closed

Another reformist newspaper has been closed down in Iran on the orders of the hard-line Iranian judiciary.

The paper, Ham-Mihan, is run by the former mayor of Tehran, Gholamhossein Karbaschi.

It is the seventeenth reformist publication to be shut down in the past few weeks in what's being seen as a backlash by conservatives against the reformist victory in parliamentary elections in February.

The Iranian news agency said the paper faces seventeen charges under the press law, including spreading false reports about the elite Revolutionary Guards, the police and the Intelligence Ministry. In addition to recent newspaper closures in Iran, several prominent journalists have also been jailed or put on trial.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service