Ettela'at

Ettela'at Newspaper

Newspaper's Logo
Type Daily
Publisher Iran Chap Organisation
Editor Mohmoud Doai
Staff writers Abbas Masoudi
Founded 10 July 1926 (1926-07-10)
Headquarters Tehran, Iran
Website www.ettelaat.com

Ettela'at (Persian: اطلاعات‎‎ lit. Information) is a Persian language daily newspaper published in Iran. It is among the oldest publications in the country.

Ettela'at Paper news Khamenei was voted as Iran president - 1981

History and profile

Ettala'at was started in 1926.[1] The circulation of the paper was 15,000 copies during the reign of Reza Shah.[1] The paper has a conservative stance[2] and focuses on political, cultural, social and economic news.[3]

Ettela'at Newspaper titling Tomorrow Morning at 9 Meeting Imam (Khomeni) in Tehran during Iranian Revolution.
First page of Ettela'at news paper on Iranian Islamic Republic Day

On 6 January 1978 an article appeared in Ettela'at suggesting Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was a homosexual and a serving British agent.[4] The next day, clerics in Qom protested and the police demanded they disperse. When they refused, police opened fire and at least twenty people were killed. Iranian media displayed outraged, which increased tensions leading up to the 1979 Iranian Revolution.[4]

In 1979, the newspaper published Firing Squad in Iran, a photo showing Kurdish militants being executed by Iranian authorities. The photo would later go on to win the 1980 Pulitzer Prize, attributed to "Anonymous," but later was revealed in 2006 to be photographer Jahangir Razmi.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Mushira Eid (1 January 2002). The World of Obituaries: Gender across Cultures and over Time. Wayne State University Press. p. 52. ISBN 0-8143-3655-8. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
  2. ↑ Arash Karami (15 March 2014). "Iran's Fourth Estate". Asharq Al Awsat. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
  3. ↑ Abdolrasoul Jowkar; Fereshteh Didegah (2010). "Evaluating Iranian newspapers' web sites using correspondence analysis". Library Hi Tech. 28 (1): 119–130. doi:10.1108/07378831011026733. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
  4. 1 2 Sandra Mackey (1996) The Iranians: Persia, Islam and the Soul of a Nation. Plum Penguin Group. New York, NY. p.278 ISBN 0-452-27563-6
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