The relationship between journalist and the conservative members of the parliament is at best hostile. The situation deteriorated when a influent member of the parliament Mehdi Kouchekzadeh attacked a journalist of the independent paper “Sharq” and accused him for spreading lies about him.
Kouchekzadeh grabbed the journalist by the chin dragging him in the corridor and at the same time insulting him in the open. Kouchekzadeh is also a member of the “parliament’s human rights committee”.
In March another journalist of the reform paper “Hambastegi” was banned from the parlament, and so was the newspaper. After the journalist had reported on the benefits the parliamentarians had granted themselves. This report choked people as the “new” conservative majority has promised to live humble and stop the corruption. The journalist was barred for “lack of politeness and decency”.
Journalists in Iran are now threatening to boycott all news from the parliament if the prosecutions of journalists are not stopped by the parliamentarians. Reporters without boarders have described Iran as the biggest prison for journalists in the Middle East.
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