''Hamshahri'' ( fa, همشهری, "Fellow citizen"; ) is a major national

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ian Persian-language newspaper.

History and profile

''Hamshahri'' is published by the municipality of

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

, and founded by

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. It is the first coloured daily newspaper in Iran and has over 60 pages of classified advertisement. The newspaper is distributed within the limits of Tehran municipality. It has a daily circulation of over 400,000 copies, which is on par with major US-American daily newspapers such as the ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. Based on the results of a domestic poll of how citizens of Tehran view television and print media which were released by Iran’s

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''Hamshahri'' was the most read daily in Tehran with 44.1% in March 2014. Hamshahri Building in Karaj-Tehran road

In 1997's Iranian presidential election, Hamshahri newspaper, then run by former mayor of Tehran, Gholamhossein Karbaschi, was accused by conservatives of supporting

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. This was seen as illegal, as papers receiving government subsidy were forbidden to take sides in the elections. The issue eventually led to Karbaschi being put on trial on grounds of embezzlement and was sentenced to time in prison. During Khatami's second term, Tehran press court ruled that the newspaper can only be distributed inside Tehran.

International Holocaust Cartoon Competition

On 6 February 2006, Farid Mortazavi, graphics editor of ''Hamshahri'', announced the International Holocaust Cartoon Competition, a cartoon contest to denounce what it called 'Western hypocrisy on freedom of speech', alleging that "it is impossible in the West to joke upon or even discuss certain topics related to Judaism, such as the

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, and the pretexts for the creation of

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.". The contest was created in response to the

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and ended on 1 November 2006 with Abdellah Derkaoui, a Moroccan cartoonist, claiming the first prize. The event was denounced by

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, the Israeli foreign ministry,

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, the

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and other parties.

Temporary banning

The newspaper was temporarily banned from publication on 23–24 November 2009, after it published a picture from a

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of the

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, which is an unrecognized religion in Iran, where its followers are subject to state sanctioned persecution.Hafezi, Parisa; Jaseb, Hossein; Mostafavi, Ramin (24 November 2009)
Ban on Iran paper over Baháʼí photo lifted
Reuters.

References

External links

Holocaust Cartoons
– mirrored cartoons from Hamshahri, and commentary by irregulartimes.com
Copyright Infringement by Hamshahri
(Persian and English) {{DEFAULTSORT:Hamshahri 1992 establishments in Iran Newspapers published in Tehran Persian-language newspapers Publications established in 1992

History and profile

International Holocaust Cartoon Competition

Temporary banning

See also

References

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