LONDON, May 6 (IranMania) - The offices of an Iranian reformist daily newspaper was attacked overnight and its entrance blown up, the paper's public relations officer told AFP Saturday.
"Around 4:30 in the morning they blew up the sign board and the entrance, but nobody has been hurt," said Jamshid Irani of the Etemad-Melli newspaper, adding that the attackers were unknown.
Launched in February 2006, Etemad-Melli is published by Mehdi Karrubi, a reformist cleric and a presidential hopeful of the June 2005 election, AFP added.
The staff is mainly formed by journalists from a string of reformist publications shut down by the judiciary in recent years.
Under the former presidency of pro-reform Mohammad Khatami, vigilantes beat up editors and attacked several reformist papers running controversial and critical articles.
Etemad-Melli had on Wednesday reported the arrest of a leading intellectual, Ramin Jahanbegloo.
