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| Intelligence Ministry issues warning to media |
| 2009-08-11 |
| [Iran Press TV Latest] Iran's Intelligence Ministry has issued a warning to the media about revealing "classified data" about its operatives, documents and structure. In a statement released on Monday, the ministry warns the media against publishing "false news" that could result in revealing information -- "documents, identities of personnel, internal structure" -- pertaining to the Intelligence Ministry. "This subject is among classified material and it is obligatory for all individuals, and especially media supervisors, newspapers, websites to refrain from publishing such reports," the statement elaborates. The revelation of such information will lead to "interruption of the staff in their line of duty and the management of the ministry, and is harmful to the national interests," the Iranian Student News Agency quoted the statement. The ministry also warned of prosecution against those who publish such reports. In recent weeks, there have been persistent media speculations about shuffles within the Intelligence Ministry after the disputed June 12 presidential election and the sack of the former Intelligence Minister Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei. A number of names have been mentioned in the media, whose opinions are alleged to differ from those of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's. |
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