Iran:Government puts economic pressure on Iranian journals · Global Voices
Fred Petrossian

Tirouj says[Fa] government controls 80 percent of country's economic and it uses this advantage to push some journals to shutdown.The blogger says it is easy for Iranian government to cut advertising money to targeted journals and push them to go out of business.The blogger adds it happened to Ayandeh No (new future) journal recently.According to the blogger,it seems government prefers to use this method rather than sending security forces to close journals.