Iranian media banned from mentioning Mohammad Khatami
Iran’s media has been banned from publishing the name or images of Mohammad Khatami, the country’s former reformist president, according to a senior judicial official.
Although the authorities have taken similar actions against reformers and opposition figures in the past, the latest move is significant because it is happening under the current moderate president, Hassan Rouhani, who had promised greater freedoms.
Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i, the spokesman for Iran’s judiciary, said on Monday that Tehran’s justice department had issued a ruling which prohibits any mentions of Khatami in the Iranian media. Iran’s judicial system, which is dominated by conservatives, operates separately from Rouhani’s government, meaning that the president’s hands are tied when it comes to influencing its decisions.
“There is an order that bans the media from publishing photos or reports about this person,” Mohseni-Eje’i said, referring to Khatami without naming him, according to the semi-official Isna news agency. Isna, too, did not name Khatami in its report of the spokesman’s briefing with Iranian reporters but referred to him as “the leader of the reformist government”.
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