Iranian media are reporting that the country's General Prosecutor has ordered the closure of a reformist newspaper on charges of insulting the Shiite religion.
The Friday reports say that the "Sedayeh Eslahat" newspaper was ordered shut down for publishing an article on female-to-male gender reassignment surgery.
The prosecutor, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, ordered the editor be punished, too, the reports said.
On Thursday, a headline on the newspaper's front page read: "Ruqayyah became Mahdi after 22 years."
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