Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld a seven-month jail term for reformist Iranian parliament member Mohammad Dadfar, publisher of the recently banned newspaper Ayene-Jonub, IRNA news agency reported Wednesday. Dadfar, a deputy from the southern city of Bushehr, has been sentenced to seven months in prison for "spreading lies" and spreading "anti-regime propaganda" as well as "insulting" the country's Supreme National Security Council. Iran's conservative press court banned his newspaper Ayene-Jonoub (Mirror of the South) at the beginning of August after it converted from being a provincial weekly to a national daily. Speaking to IRNA, Dadfar recently compared repressive judiciary measures...
