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| Weekly faces charges for printing image of Reza Shah |
| 2002-07-10 |
| A provincial weekly in Iran's northeastern holy city of Mashhad is facing legal charges for having published the picture of a statue of Reza Shah, founder of the Pahlavi dynasty and father of Iran's last Shah. Staffers of the Hemat weekly which belongs to the Mashhad municipality were summoned before a local court Sunday, the reformist Nourooz paper reported Monday, adding that they were also accused of publishing "untrue articles." Interesting that they'd bother printing the picture at all. Sounds like they're trying to push the boundaries and went a little too far. Either that, or they're reminding people you don't have to be a pious holy man with a turban to be a ruler and that some of the old days were good old days. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |