The International Federation of Journalists reported that the safety establishments of the Islamic Republic pressured the managers of the “Khaber Online” information company to take away the information of the prediction of “30% participation” within the March elections from the web site of this information company.
On February 8, Khabar Online wrote in a report quoting the outcomes of a authorities company survey that the participation fee within the March elections of the Islamic Council and the Assembly of Leadership Experts shall be round 30% in the whole nation.
According to this report, the participation fee in Tehran province can also be predicted to be 22% and in Tehran metropolis lower than 15%, and the people who find themselves not keen to take part within the elections informed opinion polling specialists that as a result of the parliament and elections within the Islamic Republic are inefficient, corruption is rampant within the nation. And they haven’t any hope for the way forward for their lives and the nation, they aren’t keen to take part within the “demonstration” and “order” authorities elections.
On Monday, ninth of Bahman, after being pressured to take away the information “The outcomes of an election survey carried out by a good authorities heart in regards to the degree of individuals’s participation within the March elections”, Khabar Online wrote in a brief clarification: “In a cellphone name, we had been requested by some individuals to share this information. We ought to take away it from the output and so they emphasised that it’s towards the decision to publish any polls in regards to the elections.
This information company continued to write down: “It is just not clear which authorized decision relies on the decision cited and emphasised by the caller authority, and such a decision is the output of the choice of which competent and decision-making physique, and why it has not been formally notified to the media up to now, and oral and phone notifications have been changed. Has it been formally notified?
This occurs whereas the stress on journalists and media members has elevated in current weeks. Summoning journalists, asserting crimes towards crucial media and pressuring silence in some information, such because the case of the homicide of Dariush Mehrjooi, the late director of Iranian cinema, are amongst these pressures.