That's a laugh. What press? He shut them all down!
BBC NEWS:
Iran holds 'senior' al-Qaeda men
The minister did not name those in custody
Iran has said it is holding several senior members of Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.
The Intelligence Minister, Ali Yunesi, told reporters in Tehran that a large number of "small and big" members of al-Qaeda were in Iranian custody.
It is not clear how senior the detainees are, and the minister gave few details.
Earlier this year, the Iranians announced the arrest of a number of alleged al-Qaeda suspects, but rejected US allegations that senior figures of the network had taken refuge in Iran.
President Bush has accused Iran and Syria of continuing to harbour terrorists - a charge both countries reject.
'Small and big'
Mr Yunesi said that since the US-led war in Afghanistan that led to the fall of the Taleban regime in 2001, Iran had arrested "a large number of al-Qaeda members, some of whom have been expelled or handed over to their country of origin".
He told reporters: "We are still holding many others."
Last week, Kuwait acknowledged for the first time that one of its former citizens, the al-Qaeda spokesman, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, was in Iranian custody.
Kuwaiti Interior Minister Sheikh Nawaf al-Sabah told Saudi newspaper Okaz that the government had turned down an offer by Iran to extradite Abu Ghaith to Kuwait.
He said Abu Ghaith's Kuwaiti citizenship had been withdrawn following the 11 September 2001 attacks.
Iran revealed in June that it had a number of al-Qaeda suspects in custody and that it had identified some of them.
Reports at the time said that among those in Iranian custody were Abu Ghaith, al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden's son Saad Bin Laden and also his security chief Saif al-Adel, sometimes regarded as al-Qaeda's current number three leader.
The whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden are not known - or even whether he is definitely still alive.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3090731.stm