TEHERAN An Iranian court has banned a student magazine and ordered the arrest of its publisher and one of its writers over an article considered to be blasphemous.

The court in Tehran ordered the closing of the magazine**** Kavir (Desert), ***** owned by the Shahid Rajaei University in Tehran, after the monthly published an editorial titled conviction of God Almighty which the court considered blasphemous.

The publisher of the magazine, Hamid Ja'fari Nasrabadi, and the writer, Mahmoud Mojdehi, were jailed and the police were further ordered to collect all copies of the magazine from all over the country.

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