Banish Iran AFP correspondent

TEHRAN - Deputy head of the French news agency AFP bureau in Tehran, Jay Deshmukh, on Friday (11 / 3) were expelled by the Iranian authorities but did not explain their decision. Deshmukh, Indian citizen aged 40, was in Iran since January 2009. Withdrawn his press card along with 10 other correspondents on February 15, a day after a massive protest in Tehran.

The protest was one of the largest in the capital city of Iran in a year and covered by the AFP and the majority of the international media. "Jay is a professional and experienced journalist. Pengusirannya is inexplicable and unacceptable," said Director of Global News AFP Philippe Massonet.

Deshmukh joined the AFP in 2001 in Mumbai and working in the news agency in Baghdad from 2005 to 2008. Iranian foreign media and subjected to a crackdown in Iran since Mahmoud Ahmadiejad re-election as state president in June 2009.Pro-reform opposition accuses election full of fraud and for a few months Iran hit by gelombag protest that never happened since the 1979 Islamic revolution, is one of the worst political crises facing the Iranian government in its history. Thousands of protesters were detained checkmate in 2009 and hundreds of people from groups antipemerinth tried and convicted, some of them were sentenced to heavy.

The Iranian journalists also paid a terrible price. More than 40 people currently imprisoned, said the data released by the International Committee to Protect Journalists, based in New York in December 2010. Foreign media also became targets and dozens of journalists were expelled from Iran since 2009, their press cards withdrawn or their entry visas into the country declined.

Coverage of foreign journalists is restricted and they were forbidden to report the location of opposition protests. Foreign media also must get official permission to interview Iranian officials and covering news in the field. They were always excluded from the conference, press conference, except those performed Ahmadinejad or the foreign ministry.Most of western television and radio networks, such as the BBC and Voice of America, which provides an important source of information for many Iranians, are systematically harassed in the capital Tehran and most major cities. Iranian authorities also meblokir many internet pages that are based overseas, particularly the opposition and the Western media.

Western media every day criticized Iranian leaders who accused him was part of a 'conspiracy' against the Islamic republic who they say planned the United States, Israel, Britain and European Union countries.