| One of Sharq daily`s employees told IRNA late Wednesday night that the daily will not be published on Thursday, since its editorial office has been shut down. He told IRNA that at about 11 pm a number of officers from the Prosecutor General`s Office came to Sharq`s Central Bureau and talked with the daily`s officials for a while. The Sharq employee added, "The said officers asked our editors to stop publication of the daily until further notice." He said, "They told our editors that the final decision on Sharq will be announced officially on Saturday, February 21st." The editorial staffer of Sharq who was unaware of the real reason behind Sharq`s closure predicted that the publication of the Majlis representatives` open letter to the Supreme Leader must have caused the problem. A number of the 6th parliament`s representatives read out an open letter to the Supreme leader of the Islamic Revolution at their press conference on Tuesday evening, which was published with numerous ensured parts in Sharq and Yaas-e-Nou dailies` Wednesday editions. |