TEHRAN The Justice Department of Tehran Province in an order issued on Saturday imposed a temporary ban on the Persian daily ***'Iran'*** announced the Managing Editor of the daily Abdor-Rasoul Vesal on Saturday.

According to the reports, the Persian daily *** Bonyan *** was also temporarily sustained.

Vesal said that the daily is facing some 96 complaints.

The Persian daily ***Iran***, whose license holder is the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), began publication in early 1995.

The daily drew sharp criticism from religious authorities last Friday when seminary students in Qom staged an angry demonstration for a recent article they deemed as an insult to Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).

They called for the closure of the paper and the arrest of Vesal as well as IRNA Managing Director Abdollah Nasseri Taheri and a former head of the Islamic Propagation Organization, Mohammad Ali Zam.