Iran cracks down on critical media

German news site Spiegel.com reports on actions taken by the Iranian government to combat its fear of a creeping media coup. Ham Mihan, a pro-reform newspaper, and the ILNA online news agency were both shut down by authorities July 3. Iran also recently released its own English-language news channel, Press TV, in a bid to break what it called the West’s “stranglehold” over the world’s media.