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  "name": "Iran",
  "continent": "asia",
  "region": "Southern Asia",
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    "rank": 177,
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    "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 177th of 180",
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  },
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      "name": "Expulsion and visa denial",
      "count": 1,
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    },
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      "slug": "shutdowns_and_blocking",
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      "name": "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad",
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        "slug": "2009-iran-post-election-foreign-press-restrictions",
        "title": "Iran expels a BBC correspondent and restricts foreign journalists after a disputed 2009 election",
        "occurred_on": "2009-06-21",
        "occurred_on_precision": "day",
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        "leader_slug": "mahmoud-ahmadinejad",
        "leader_name": "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad",
        "issue_of_the_day": "Iran's disputed June 12, 2009 presidential election and the mass protests that followed allegations the vote was rigged for incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.",
        "outcome": "unknown",
        "outcome_on": null,
        "outcome_note": "The sources reviewed do not establish when Iran lifted the specific 2009 restrictions on foreign correspondents covering the post-election protests.",
        "stage": "punish",
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          "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
          "year": 2026,
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          "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 177th of 180",
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        },
        "era": "2000s",
        "granularity": "anchor",
        "status": "historical",
        "case_count": 0,
        "summary": "After Iran's disputed June 2009 presidential election produced mass protests, the government expelled BBC correspondent Jon Leyne, revoked foreign press credentials, confined most foreign journalists to office-based reporting, and blocked access to numerous websites.",
        "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2009-iran-post-election-foreign-press-restrictions"
      }
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    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
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