Aftab Yazd

Aftab-e Yazd
Type Daily newspaper
Publisher Mojtaba Vahedi
Founded August 2000 (2000)
Language Persian
Headquarters Palestine Street, Tehran
Circulation 100,000 (2008 est.)
Website Aftab-e Yazd

Aftab-e Yazd (آفتاب یزد lit. "The Yazd Sun") is a Persian-language daily reformist newspaper published in Iran. The title of the paper means “the sun of Yazd” in Persian.[1]

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Aftab Yazd was started in August 2000.[2] The paper, based in Tehran, is affiliated with the Association of Combatant Clerics (of which former President Mohammad Khatami is a leading member).[3][4] The paper focuses on political, cultural, social and economic news.[5]

In June 2005, before the 2005 presidential election, the paper along with another one, Eqbal, published the letter of presidential candidate Mahdi Karroubi to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.[6] Upon this publication both papers were banned for one day by Tehran Public and Revolutionary Court.[6] The daily was also temporarily ceased in June 2009 following the presidential elections.[4] In December 2009 it was again warned by the ministry of culture for publishing "divisive" material.[7]

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References

  1. "Media Environment Guide: Iran" (PDF). BBC Monitoring. 30 July 2009. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
  2. Andrew North (21 October 2000). "'Moderate' paper faces Iranian court". BBC. Tehran. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  3. "Notable Middle Eastern News Media". NYU Law and Security. 2008. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  4. 1 2 "Various newspapers banned and censored". CPJ via IFEX. 22 June 2009. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  5. 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.
  6. 1 2 "Iranian reformist newspapers Eqbal and Aftab Yazd banned". Payvand. 20 June 2005. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
  7. Four Iranian Newspapers Threatened by Authorities Payvand 5 December 2009.
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