''Abrar'' (''Samaritans'' in English) is a
Persian-language
Persian (), also known by its endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and u ...
daily newspaper published in Tehran,
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
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History and profile
''Abrar'' was first published on 8 November 1988. The printing of the paper was done using the printing facility of a defunct leftist newspaper, ''Azadegan''.
It is described by the US newspapers as hard-line and traditional conservative publication.
[ Mohammad Safizadeh, former minister of interior, holds the licence of ''Abrar''.]Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ( fa, اکبر هاشمی رفسنجانی, Akbar Hāshemī Rafsanjānī, born Akbar Hashemi Bahramani, 25 August 1934 – 8 January 2017) was an Iranian politician, writer, and one of the founding fathers of the Islami ...
''Abrar'' was one of his supports.[ In June 2013, the offices of the paper were raided and sealed and it was closed down.]
See also
*List of newspapers in Iran
The first Iranian newspapers appeared in the mid-19th century during the reign of Naser al-Din Shah. More specifically, the first newspaper in Iran, Kaghaz-e Akhbar (The Newspaper), was launched for the government by Mirza Saleh Shirazi in 1837 ...
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1988 establishments in Iran
Newspapers established in 1988
Newspapers published in Tehran
Persian-language newspapers