Iran bans parliamentary reporter
By Sadeq Saba (BBC):
The conservative-controlled parliament in Iran has barred an investigative journalist from its premises after revealing MPs’ huge pay and bonuses. Iran’s independent press association accused the chamber of censorship. The journalist, Massih Ali-Nejad, works for an Iranian news agency, ILNA, and a reformist paper, Hambastaghi.
Iran’s conservative MPs were elected on a platform of piety and rejection of materialism, promising to cut their salaries and bonuses. But they were hugely embarrassed when Massih Ali-Nejad published a series of articles revealing how the MPs had actually increased their pay and received big sums of money from conservative-controlled organisations…
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