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The managing editor of a conservative Iranian Web site was arrested for "poisoning the election atmosphere," a Tehran general prosecutor said.

In a blog post on the Nosazi (Renovation) Web site, Hossein Nobakhtian took the grandson of Ayatollah Khomeini to task for going against the legacy of the founder of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution. The post attacked Hassan Khomeini for not agreeing with hardliners and their decision to not include moderates on a list of candidates for the March 14 parliamentary elections.

In one article on the Nosazi Web site it accused Khomeini of supporting only "wealthy moderate politicians. We wish we also had a BMW car...and breathed the posh northern Tehran weather...and had the pleasure of only observing oppressed people's pain like you do," the article said.

Reporters Without Borders called the arrest of the conservative Hassan Nobakhtian, "arbitrary" and "irregular". The organization added," Conservative websites that support President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad usually enjoy a degree of immunity, and the blocking of Nosazi is indicative of the level of tension between the different conservative factions as the elections get nearer."