Iran’s leading feminist magazine, Zanan, has had its publishing licence revoked by the Ministry of Culture. The magazine, which was first published in 1992, offered articles on health, parenting, literature, as well as politics, but it was recently seen to have shown Iranian women in ‘a black light’. Jenni talks to Dr Mehri Honarbin Holliday from Canterbury Christ Church University and Baria Alamuddin, Foreign Editor of Al Hayat - an independent Arab newspaper about the influence of the magazine on women in Iran, the effect that the closure of the magazine will have on women’s rights and women’s role in the forthcoming parliamentary elections