Tehran - Two pro-reform journalists were arrested on Wednesday in Tehran, ISNA news agency reported.
Mohammad-Medh Emami-Nasseri and Alireza Aqaei-Rad from the Maqreb newspaper, which means West, were arrested by the Tehran prosecutor'soffice, the daily's publisher told ISNA.
Amir-Moussa Kazemi said that the charges against the two were in connection with a story which the judiciary interpreted as an indirect insult to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Kazemi said there has been no oder to close the newspaper
Pro-reform newspapers in Iran, which arecritical of Ahmadinejad, are under surveillance by the judiciary.
Several of the were closed in recent years. - Sapa-dpa