Following public protests against the planned incarceration of two well-known journalists in Iran, the government is now backing the pair. “The Minister of Justice and I personally forwarded the lawyers’ request for amnesty for the two journalists to the head of the judiciary,” said Abbas Salehi, the minister of culture responsible for the press, on Wednesday. Both his ministry and cabinet members would seriously follow the case to the end, the minister added, according to the news agency Isna. The protests stem from a judicial decision against granting amnesty to the two renowned and award-wi…