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    Report: Iran presidential adviser sentenced

    TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian news agency says President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's press adviser has been sentenced to six months in jail.

    Monday's report by the semiofficial Mehr news agency provided no further details, but Ali Akbar Javanfekr had been previously convicted of insulting Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

    The case appears to be part of an ongoing power struggle between Ahmadinejad's backers and Khamenei loyalists.

    Last year, Javanfekr received a separate one-year sentence for writing that the practice of women wearing head-to-toe black coverings was not originally an Iranian practice, but was imported. This was considered offensive by hardline Iranian clerics.

    There have been no reports that Javanfekr has begun to serve either sentence.

    THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

    TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian news agency says President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's former press adviser has been sentenced to six months in jail.

    Monday's report by the semiofficial Mehr news agency provided no further details, but Ali Akbar Javanfekr had been previously convicted of insulting Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

    The case appears to be part of an ongoing power struggle between Ahmadinejad's backers and Khamenei loyalists.

    Last year, Javanfekr received a separate one-year sentence for writing that the practice of women wearing head-to-toe black coverings was not originally an Iranian practice, but was imported. This was considered offensive by hardline Iranian clerics.

     

    74 comments

    • Signetring54  •  3 mths ago
      Wherever evil exists, that evil will be battling within it self to gain dominance and superiority over other evil factions. This is what chaos is all about.
    • eddy b  •  Topeka, Kansas  •  3 mths ago
      Uh-oh, infighting!!! Anyway we can help that???
    • Orland  •  Chico, California  •  3 mths ago
      To bad he was not walking to close to the boarder, he would have gotten 2 years for spying...
    • Allen  •  3 mths ago
      What a bunch of a**holes.
      • rosefluo 3 mths ago
        thumb down I hope homeland security traces you and throws you in a plane via teheran, have some of your own s h i t !
    • deepwater  •  Aberdeen, United Kingdom  •  3 mths ago
      Trogladytes jailing each other over insults...typical rag headed mentality.
    • Scott54  •  Gainesville, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      This proves the old adage " The pen is mightier than the sword."
    • Nowwhat  •  3 mths ago
      That old fart will soon be gone! Yep. More crab bait! But it will be his own people who take him out! He knows its coming!
    • DENNIS  •  3 mths ago
      If they tear out his tongue, blind him and chop off both hands he'll be less able to publish, see or say anything.
    • Ted Stosterone  •  3 mths ago
      This is the typical radical Islam method of DENIAL of history....
      And if you DENY their DENIAL.......you'll get jailed or shot.

      Ah. (sigh)....Their peace and tolerance is so huge you can't even SEE it!!!
    • Banana Kiwi  •  3 mths ago
      Did he advise the mullahs to get reasonable ?
    • WALTER  •  3 mths ago
      Islam is no better than the communists. You voice your ideas and thoughts in public, you will looking over your shoulder the rest of your life until you are jailed!!!!!!!
    • The Chief  •  Detroit, Michigan  •  3 mths ago
      Those Clerics really don't study their own history, do they? Iran, or Persia as it was called had a pretty good record for women's rights while they were still known as the Sassanid Empire. With how much the Persians don't care for the Arabs, they sure do readily embrace their culture at the expense of their own.
    • intrepid ahmadinejad  •  Tehran, Iran  •  3 mths ago
      Iran has a real democracy
    • Laura  •  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma  •  3 mths ago
      I guess no one is safe in iran. Can't wait for your turn ama whatever iradinajad.
    • Jack  •  Fremont, California  •  3 mths ago
      I guess if insulting our Supreme Leader is punishable act, we will all be in trouble.......
    • Dennis  •  Grand Rapids, Michigan  •  4 mths ago
      Do I detect a crack in the great Islamic Republic?
      • Becky Mon-chu 4 mths ago
        Crack you say? It might be a real big one when Israel lobs a big 'un.
      • American 4 mths ago
        I think is was a fart .
    • riprap  •  New York, New York  •  4 mths ago
      This adviser probably said the truth.
    • Bill  •  Normandy, Tennessee  •  4 mths ago
      The people of Iran need to grow a backbone.
      • Under Dog 4 mths ago
        so do americans, they let Obama walk all over them
      • American 4 mths ago
        We have one , we vote and for those that don't vote there the real losers .
      • Old Watchman 4 mths ago
        The trouble with being a revolutionary is that for each wrong in life you have to ask yourself, is it worth dying for.
    • Tom Triumph  •  Oak Ridge, Tennessee  •  4 mths ago
      No problems with freedom of speech in Iran ... there is none!
    • the man  •  4 mths ago
      how's that freedom of speech working out for you in Iran?
      • dammin 4 mths ago
        they cant answer that, they'll go to jail.^^
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