CNN.com reports: “Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has asked that a ban on CNN journalists in Iran be lifted and that the network be allowed to continue working in the country, according to a report by the official Iranian news agency IRNA early Tuesday.
The report said the president’s chief of staff has made the request in a letter to the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance.
Government television station IRINN is also reporting that late Monday night, the president’s office called for the ministry to annul its decision banning CNN from working in Iran and asked that the network be allowed to continue working there as before.”
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