The appeals court upheld his sentence of six months. His lawyer said the sentence was for allowing an article to be published in a state publication that said the chador was not originally Iranian but was imported from abroad, an assertion that offended many in the clergy. Javanfekr has another appeal underway from a sentence of one year issued last month for allegedly insulting the Supreme Leader on his website. The cases are widely seen as part of the effort by the president’s critics to get at the president by attacking his aides.
