2 pro-reform papers reopen
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Two pro-reform newspapers that had been banned -- one of them for seven years -- resumed publishing this week in an apparent sign of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s decreasing popularity.
Hammihan was shut in 2000 by the hard-line judiciary after it called for improved ties with the United States. Shargh was banned last year after it poked fun at Ahmadinejad in a cartoon.
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