Iran suspends newspaper after critical coronavirus coverage
The newspaper had just published an interview that accused the government of covering up the scale of Iran's coronavirus outbreak.
Iran has shut down a Tehran-based business daily after it quoted an epidemiologist critical of the government’s handling of the pandemic, state news agency IRNA reported.
The economic daily Jahan-e Sanat published on Sunday an interview with a member of the country’s national coronavirus task force who accused the government of covering up the scale of the outbreak. Mohammadreza Mahboubfar told the paper the number of coronavirus case counts could be 20 times higher than reported.
