IRAN BARS AL-JAZEERA CORRESPONDENTS FROM IRANIAN PARLIAMENT

Here's something else those criminals Bush/Cheney/Rice might try to use to justify war against Iran. Al-Jazeera reports today that the government of Iran has banned Al-Jazeera correspondents from its legislature because it says one of Al-Jazeera's programs insulted the Grand Ayatollah Sistani of Iraq.


"Iran has banned Al-Jazeera from its parliament, saying one of its talkshows had insulted the most revered Shia cleric in Iraq.

"Gholam Ali Hadad Adel, the parliament's speaker, said: "Parliament has decided to prevent Al Jazeera journalists from entering until this network makes a formal apology for insulting [Grand] Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani."

"Iran said questions from the host of the "Without Borders" programme had questioned the legitimacy of Sistani's leadership in Iraq.

"Hadad Adel said: "This is a plot of the enemies of Islam and Iraq and news networks like Al Jazeera committed this insult because of their influential role.""