Although Iran wishes to correct the West's propoganda by opening a 24 hour news service,it appears that it is unwilling to extend media freedom to home.
Its leading reformist newspaper Hammihan has been told to close less than 2 months after it reappeared on the streets.
The official version is that the closure is the result of legal problems with the lifting of the original banning order.The cynical view is that the paper has become a victim of its own popularity
"I think the rapid growth of Hammihan readership and its increasing impact on public opinion and its professionalism … made the paper the victim of a shutdown," said Mohammed Atrianfar, the chief of the paper's editorial board and a reformist political figure.(speaking to the LA Times).
The paper was launched in 2000 and has been an advocate of strengthening relations with the United States.
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