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Iran’s Great Storyteller Dies in Silence

Iran’s Great Storyteller Dies in Silence

When President Muhammad Khatami’s Ministry of Islamic Guidance worked on the final list of banned writers and poets in the winter of 1997, few expected that Amir Ashiri’s name would be one of the 3000 or so “enemies of Islam and the Revolution” to be forbidden from...
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Iranian Press: Reading between the Lines

Iranian Press: Reading between the Lines

Shortly after the “liberation” of Iraq in 2003, the CIA set up a “listening post” in Dubai with the mission to monitor radio and TV broadcasts from the Islamic Republic and read newspapers published in Iran. To that end they hired a number of young journalists from...
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Newspapers in Iran are heavily censored and often closed down


Iran’s Oldest Daily Blows out 90 Candles

Iran’s Oldest Daily Blows out 90 Candles

In a speech at the Press Expo in Tehran earlier this month, President Hassan Rouhani expressed regret that Iranians have not succeeded in creating a “lasting newspaper.” He wondered why it was that the Times of London was now in the third century of its existence...
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British Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond (L) and his Saudi counterpart Adel Al-Jubeir hold a press conference in Riyadh on Wednesday, October 28, 2015. (AFP Photo)


Opinion: The Media Campaign against Saudi Arabia

Opinion: The Media Campaign against Saudi Arabia

The past weeks have seen frenzied competition among the British press to see who can take better aim at Saudi Arabia. The anti-Saudi media campaign has, by turns, concentrated on the notion that the Kingdom supports terrorism, and called for amnesty for a young Saudi...
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A copy of the London-based Sunday Times newspaper rests under a computer keyboard and mouse, on August 7, 2009, in London, United Kingdom. (Getty Images/Peter Macdiarmid)