Shargh is closed!

My favourite newspaper that I always considered the best of the news stand is now closed by the government. It was a surprise that it could last for three years considering all the limitations for press here. Shargh became a very distinguished source of analysis and was one of the few independent papers who could reach this level of popularity. Like many other closed newspapers, Shargh can stay closed for years before a trial. I am still not sure why they closed it (update: Seems that this was the reason! and the president is offended because he claimed a ligt was around his body when he talked in the UN general assembly and the donkey in the cartoon has one and donkey in Iran is the legend for stupidity! How mean! and they clsoed a paper for that?!)  It is easy for them to make up something stupid. I will miss Shargh like I missed other tens of reformists papers that I used to read when I was a student and they all became closed in one night after Iran's supreme leader said "Some of the papers are bases of the enemy!".

Comments

[rasko]

This is sad, our professor always used to bring us in the font page of Shargh for language practice. I will miss it.

[Wild.Life]

Not a total surprize, seems like the world leaders currently refusing to talk to each other say that some god put them in office - how odd that the god would put people so opposed to each other in a 'special light' and then make them look at each other. :)

[ُSimorgh]

Hi,

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