Shortly before the attack, a hard-line newspaper had announced that the group included spies disguised as tourists.

The Beijing Daily News, a hard-line newspaper, denounced TDK recently and huffed that university students "should not fritter away their youthful days with frivolities."

A hard-line newspaper, Keyan, asserted that Bahar had faked the interview.

In 2004, Fattahi and his followers began to gain attention in the mainstream media, with an incendiary editorial in a hard-line national newspaper portraying Fattahi as a miscreant.

And Den, a hard-line nationalist newspaper, came out today with an article condemning the "former" President.

Two hard-line newspapers, including one owned by the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have already called for the president to stay out of all nuclear matters.

On Saturday the hard-line Keyan newspaper published a picture of two women with painted toenails and hair showing under their head covers as an example of the targets of the operations.

He kept trying to alter my Persian into an inert, verbless succession of Arabic mala-propisms which was the new style of the hard-line newspapers.

The press, which is subject to Government censorship, largely ignored the incident, with one hard-line newspaper making only an oblique reference to "incidents in Arak."

Mr. Wang, who is 57 years old, is now trying to sue a hard-line newspaper that denounced him this summer.