Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shuts down Iranian weekly that featured Obama on cover

The closure of the propular reformist weekly suggests that Mr Ahmadinejad is determined to silence his critics as he prepares for elections next June that could hand him a second-four year term. Where victory had once seemed assured, now he must expect a bruising contest with an uncertain outcome. Full Story »

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by Derek Hawkins - Nov. 12, 2008

The press had ridiculed the minister, who was forced into admitting that his much-vaunted Oxford degree was bogus. Mr Ahmadinejad had stood by Mr Kordan as the scandal intensified, but Ayatollah Khamenei declared: “This careless atmosphere of talking against the government is not easily forgiven by God.”

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