Azerbaijan, Baku, May.29/ Trend F.Eminli
Iranian Culture and Islamic Guidance Minister Mohammad Hosseini has called security bodies of the country on conducting more investigation about foreign reporters who are willing to travel to Iran to cover presidential election news, Mehr reported.
Hosseini said that since in the previous presidential election an Israeli reporter had entered the country as a European national.
"Our security bodies should be more vigilant and introduce them to us and we will issue permissions to enter Iran," he said.
The minister did not refer to the name of the reporter.
Following to unrests after the 2009 presidential election, Iran expelled large numbers of foreign reporters.
Iranian security forces arrested correspondents of a number of foreign media, including Newsweek correspondent Maziar Bahari and Washington Times Greek correspondent Iason Athanasiadis.
The minister, though, expressed the hope that the 11th presidential election would reflect throughout the world.
According to him, 120 foreign media have bureaus in Iran. Moreover, some other media have called for covering Iran presidential election.
Earlier, the deputy culture minister announced that over 200 foreign correspondents from 105 media outlets and 26 countries have requested to be present in Iran to cover presidential election news.
Iran will hold the 11th presidential election on June 14, 2013.
The voters will select the successor of the current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is not able to participate in the elections for the third term according to the country's constitutional laws.
The president of Iran is elected for a four-year term in a national election and the Guardian Council vets the candidates for qualifications.