- (AFP) -- The US-based news channel CNN has been banned
from working in Iran for having quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as
saying his country is seeking nuclear weapons, a government official said.
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- During CNN's live translation of a press conference by
Ahmadinejad on Saturday, the president was quoted as saying that "we
believe all nations are allowed to have nuclear weapons" and that
the West should not "deprive us to have nuclear weapons".
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- The president was, however, using a Farsi word that meant
"technology" and not "weapons".
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- "Taking into account CNN's actions contrary to professional
ethics in the past years and their distortion of the president's comments
during his press conference on Saturday, the activities of the CNN journalist
in Tehran will end and no journalists from CNN will be authorised to come
to Iran," a statement from the Iranian culture ministry said.
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