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Shock suspension of Iranian hard-line daily over headline

Kayhan, the mouthpiece of Iran’s hard-liners, has been suspended for two days after a headline suggesting that Yemen’s Houthi movement will attack Dubai.
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The hard-line Kayhan daily was ordered suspended for two days Nov. 8 after receiving a warning from the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance about a controversial headline.

The headline, “Ansar-Allah’s missile fires at Riyadh, the next target, Dubai,” prompted many in Iran to slam the influential newspaper. Kayhan had gone against the position of both Iranian political officials as well as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, whose commander denied Saudi and US allegations about Tehran’s role in the Nov. 4 Yemeni missile strike on Riyadh’s airport.

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