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Friday, April 9, 1999 Published at 15:42 GMT 16:42 UK
World: Middle East
Iranian newspaper dubbed anti-revolutionary
The head of the Iran's conservative-domianted judiciary, Ayatollah Mohammed Yazdi, has said that the Zan newspaper was closed for committing a counter-revolutionary act.
Speaking at Friday prayers in Teheran, he warned the Iranian press against violating, what he called, the country's sacred values.
The paper had published a New Year's message from the wife of the former Shah and a cartoon alleging discrimination against women in the penal system.
The Revolutionary Court banned Zan on Thursday and ordered its publisher, Faezeh Hashemi, daughter of the former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, to stand trial. .
From the newsroom of the BBC World Service
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