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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s culture minister is seeking to tighten rules to supervise visiting foreign journalists.

Today’s report by the semiofficial Mehr news agency quotes Mohammad Hosseini as saying tighter measures are being sought after an Israeli journalist reported from Tehran about the 2009 presidential election for a European news outlet.

Post-election turmoil in 2009 led the government to restrict access for visiting foreign journalists.



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