TEHRAN, May 11 (UPI) -- Iranians expecting to buy Thursday's edition of reformist newspaper Ghanoon were disappointed not to find it on newsstands as the publication has been forced to close by the Iranian Ministry of Culture. The latest closures bring the total number of Iranian media outlets shut down by the Ministry of Culture to at least five since the election of President Hassan Rouhani in August.
Ghanoon, the Persian word for "law," was shut down for its coverage of the arrest of Mohammad Rouyanian, the former chair of the Persepolis soccer club and member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp. Rouyanian, who was arrested on fraud charges in March, was head of Iran's powerful Management Transportation and Fuel Center under controversial former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.