Journalists Are Summoned Again

Meysam Tavab, Rooz Online:

Rooz reporter from Tehran reports that once again journalists are being summoned to the Ministry of Islamic Guidance, which oversees the activities and publications of the domestic press, and threatened on what they write.

These summoned stopped after they began a few months ago when the media published the return of the “summons” policy. But only for a while. Now again, with upcoming March 6 meeting of the IAEA in Vienna over Iran’s nuclear policies and other important upcoming international events on Iran, once again journalists have been summoned to the ministry to be given warnings and threats over what they write and publish.

While summons are not new at all in Iran’s press, they have been carried out by different government agencies: the Guidance Ministry and the Intelligence Ministry have each been active in this sense. This time, the Guidance ministry had coordinated its activities with the Intelligence one and “enlightens” journalists whom it summons to the ministry. A number of journalists have been recently subjected to this type of intimidation.