Iranian actress and reformer jailed for 18 months over 'national security'
An Iranian actress and political reformer has been jailed for 18 months on security charges in another sign of the tension between Iran’s hard-line judiciary and calls for greater openness by new president Hassan Rouhani.
The case of 24-year-old Pegah Ahangarani also points to the internal – and sometimes conflicting – centres of power in Iran. News of her jailing came a day after authorities ordered the closure of the pro-reform Bahar daily for publishing a commentary considered offensive to Islam by raising questions about the successors of the Prophet Mohammed.
