The reformist online daily Rooz is reporting on purges in the Iranian media carried out by the government of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Fifty-nine journalists from the Iran newspaper have been removed, 18 journalists from the official news agency IRNA who are not supporters of Ahmadinejad have been fired, and members of the editorial board of the conservative daily Kayhan, some of them relatives of Kayhan editor Hossein Shariatmadari, have been transferred to IRNA.
Rooz also reports that in this way, IRNA has become the election headquarters for Ahmadinejad, and is spreading misinformation about his rivals.
Source: Rooz, Iran, September 15, 2008
