Iranian paper banned for second time

A leading moderate daily newspaper in Iran has been closed down for the second time after it published an interview with a woman accused of being a "counter-revolutionary" homosexual. The ban on Shargh (East), the favourite newspaper of Iranian liberals, was imposed because of an interview with Saghi Ghahreman, an expatriate Iranian poet who lives in Canada. There was no mention of homosexuality in the article. Shargh had only returned to the newsstands in May after a nine-month ban for publishing a cartoon deemed offensive to President Ahmadinejad. (Via Middle East Times)