Iranian president's media advisor sentenced to prison

A Tehran court sentenced on Sunday President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's media adviser Ali-Akbar Javanfekr to one year jail term and banned him from engaging in media activities for three years, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported. Javanfekr was convicted of publishing an article and pictures in local Iran daily's August 13 special edition which allegedly insulted the Islamic women's dress code. On Sunday, the Iranian public prosecutor's office ordered the ban of the reformist Etemad newspaper for two months, for publishing a story based on an interview with Javanfekr and for " disseminating lies and insulting officials." During the interview, Javanfekr criticized the conservatives who accused some of Ahmadinejad's aides of undermining the Islamic establishment and principles.