''Aftab-e Yazd'' (آفتاب یزد lit. "The Yazd Sun") is a
Persian-language
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daily
reformist
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newspaper
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published in Tehran,
Iran
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. The title of the paper means “the sun of Yazd” in Persian.
History and profile
''Aftab Yazd'' was started in August 2000. The paper, based in
Tehran
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, is affiliated with the
Association of Combatant Clerics
The Association of Combatant Clerics ( fa, مجمع روحانیون مبارز, ''Majma'-e rowhāniyūn-e mobārez'') is an Iranian reformist clerical political party. It is regarded as a left-wing party within the Iranian political spectrum.
Hi ...
(of which former President
Mohammad Khatami
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is a leading member).
The paper focuses on political, cultural, social and economic news.
In June 2005, before the
2005 presidential election, the paper along with another one, ''
Eqbal
''Eqbal'' ( fa, اقبال ; ''Luck'') was a Persian reformist newspaper published in Iran. It was shut down in July 2005.
History and profile
''Eqbal'' was a reformist daily of which managing editor was Morteza Fallah. It was unofficially affi ...
'', published the letter of presidential candidate
Mahdi Karroubi to
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei ( fa, سید علی حسینی خامنهای, ; born 19 April 1939) is a Twelver Shia ''marja and the second and current Supreme Leader of Iran, in office since 1989. He was previously the third president o ...
.
Upon this publication both papers were banned for one day by Tehran Public and Revolutionary Court.
[ The daily was also temporarily ceased in June 2009 following the ]presidential elections
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Albania
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Chile
The pr ...
.[ In December 2009 it was again warned by the ministry of culture for publishing "divisive" material.Four Iranian Newspapers Threatened by Authorities]
''Payvand'' 5 December 2009.
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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2000 establishments in Iran
Newspapers established in 2000
Newspapers published in Tehran
Persian-language newspapers