Bahrain shut down its oldest daily newspaper for “violating the country’s press code,” the official news agency reported Monday, a day after the paper published a report that suggested Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was Jewish.

The paper, Akhbar Al-Khaleej, or “Gulf News,” was shut down as it was about to to print late Sunday night and is to remain shut until further notice, a note on the paper’s website explained.

Rajab wrote: “In a televised live debate between Mehdi Karroubi and Ahmadinejad, Karroubi took a jab at Ahmadinejad’s origins and said ‘my full name is Mehdi so and so Karroubi’ so what is your full name?’”

Rajab went on to write that Ahmadinejad stated his name but failed to mention his “real” surname “which all Iranians know to be Jewish and that is what Karroubi was trying to get at.”

British newspaper the Guardian also reported that this family had changed its name for “a mixture of religious and economic reasons.”