Iran's government has shut down two publications as part of a continuing crackdown on pro-reform media voices.<br /><br />The country's Press Supervisory Board has banned one of the best-selling reformist newspapers and revoked the licence of a weekly magazine.<br /><br />Both publications had links to Mehdi Karroubi, the opposition politician who angered the authorities again last week by saying that the government was facing crisis following the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.<br /><br />The government says the publications repeatedly violated press laws.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Alireza Ronaghi reports from Tehran on the restrictions faced by journalists in the country. (2 March 2010)
