11.   After a reformist newspaper was closed by hard-liners last summer, tens of thousands of Tehran University students flooded the streets for three days.

12.   Also, the reformist newspaper Neshat reported Saturday that police had detained three dissidents in the crackdown.

13.   Among the four candidates competing Friday was Ali Akbar Mohtashami-Pour, publisher of the reformist newspaper Bayan that was recently closed by the hard-line judiciary.

14.   But some reformist newspapers, and people who know Mohammadi, say he is deranged and suffers from illusions of grandeur.

15.   Fallout continued Tuesday over the aborted effort to alter the press law that allows the hard-line Justice Ministry to close reformist newspapers and arrest writers advocating change.

16.   Hard-liners also promised to control the Ansar, vigilantes they have sent out to beat up opponents, attack reformist newspapers and break up pro-democracy demonstrations.

17.   Hashemi publishes a reformist newspaper, Zan.

18.   His comments were widely seen as a warning to all reformist newspapers and journalists.

19.   In a related development, a moderately reformist newspaper, Iran-e Javan, was banned Tuesday, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

20.   In the past two months, the judiciary has closed many reformist newspapers and ordered the detention of several pro-democracy journalists and activists.