''Iran-e-Farda'' ( fa, ایران فردا, Īrān-i fardā, lit=Tomorrow's Iran) is an Iranian

nationalist-religious The Religious-Nationalists (plural form in fa, ملّی‌مذهبی‌ها, Melli-Mazhabi ha, lit=The Nationalist-Religious Ones) or the National-Religious ( fa, ملّی‌مذهبی, Melli-Mazhabi as an adjective) are terms referring to a pol ...

periodical publication printed in magazine-format and published digitally that focuses on current sociopolitical affairs of Iran.

History

''Iran-e-Farda'' began publication in 1992. As of December 1995, one survey found that the magazine was Iran's leading political monthly. In 1996, the state-run

IRIB TV1 IRIB TV1 ( fa, شبکه یک, ''Shabakeh-e Yek'', lit. Channel 1) is one of the 40 national television channels in Iran. IRIB TV1 was the first national television channel in Iran, and is now the oldest Iranian television channel having been es ...

aired a programme named '' Hoviyat'' which frequently attacked ''Iran-e-Farda'' and accused it of being one of the "bases for the

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's cultural invasion of Iran". In response, the magazine's managing director Ezatollah Sahabi wrote an open letter to

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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 ...

, which was published by '' Salam'', asking for an opportunity to defend itself. During

presidency of Mohammad Khatami The Presidency of Mohammad Khatami was the 7th and 8th government of Iran after the Iranian Revolution. At that time, Mohammad Khatami was president. Khatami's Presidency Running on a reform agenda, Khatami was elected president on 23 May 1997 ...

, it became increasingly outspoken in advocating civil society and asked Khatami to fulfill his promises and called for more freedom and tolerance. It also frequently criticized the

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establishment. The magazine was banned in April 2000 during crackdown of more than a dozen

reformist Reformism is a political doctrine advocating the reform of an existing system or institution instead of its abolition and replacement. Within the socialist movement, reformism is the view that gradual changes through existing institutions can eve ...

newspapers. At the time, it had been published on a biweekly basis and had an estimated circulation of 50,000 which was several times more than most other periodicals in Iran. ''Iran-e-Farda'' was relaunched in May 2014 but ceased publication in December 2020, after it was banned again.

Political alignment

The magazine was known as the mouthpiece of the

Council of Nationalist-Religious Activists of Iran The Council of Nationalist-Religious Activists of Iran ( fa, شورای فعالان ملی-مذهبی ایران, Showra-ye Fa'alan-e Melli Mazhabi) or The Coalition of National-Religious Forces of Iran ( fa, ائتلاف نيروهای ملی-م� ...

and has been described as "an

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monthly which became a forum for their liberal notion of Islam", as well as "associated with the

Freedom Movement of Iran The Freedom Movement of Iran (FMI) or Liberation Movement of Iran (LMI; fa, نهضت آزادی ايران, Nahżat-e āzādi-e Irān) is an Iranian pro-democracy political organization founded in 1961, by members describing themselves as "Muslim ...

". According to Wilfried Buchta, the magazine was where " Islamic-left" and "

" were gathered around Ezatollah Sahabi. Yadullah Shahibzadeh argues that post-Islamist and neo-Shariatist movements have been associated with ''Iran-e-Farda'' and used it as a platform to enter the public space in the 1990s.

Staff

Ezatollah Sahabi was the founder and managing director of ''Iran-e-Farda'' and

Reza Alijani Reza Alijani ( fa, رضا علیجانی) is an Iranian journalist, writer and nationalist-religious activist. Alijani has been described as " Neo-Shariatist" and a leading post-Islamist intellectual figure. Alijani has spent years in jail sinc ...

was its editor-in-chief. After relaunch in 2014, Kayvan Samimi served as its editor-in-chief and Hamed Sahabi was the magazine's publisher. Contributing editors and other columnists who at some time have wrote for ''Iran-e-Farda'' include: *

Hasan Yousefi Eshkevari Hasan Yousefi Eshkevari ( fa, حسن یوسفی اشکوری, born 1950) is an Iranian cleric, researcher, journalist, reformist and former political prisoner. He has been described as "an active supporter of the revolution" who became "an outspo ...

Hoda Saber , birth_date = , birth_place = Tehran, Iran , death_date = , death_place = Tehran, Iran , education = , occupation = Intellectual, Economic Scholar and Social Activist, Journalist , alias = , title = , family = ...

Ahmad Zeidabadi Ahmad Zeidabadi fa, احمد زیدابادی (born 21 July 1965 in Zeidabad, Sirjan) is an Iranian journalist, academic, writer and political analyst and the secretary general of Office for Strengthening Unity. He is one of the notable figures ...

Taghi Rahmani Taghi Rahmani ( fa, تقی رحمانی) is an Iranian journalist, writer and nationalist-religious activist. Shireen Hunter describes Rahmani as "a contemporary Iranian intellectual and author of books on religious intellectualism and reason". ...

Lotfollah Meisami Lotfollah Meysami ( fa, لطف‌الله میثمی) is an Iranian Council of Nationalist-Religious Activists of Iran, Nationalist-Religious activist, journalist and publisher. He owns and publishes ''Cheshmandāz-e Irān'' (), a two-monthly mag ...

Habibollah Peyman Habibollah Peyman ( fa, حبیب‌الله پیمان; born 1935) is an Iranian politician. He is the founder and the leader of an Islamist Socialist political party, named ''Jonbesh Moslamanan Mobarez'', which is banned by the religious governm ...

Alireza Rajaei Alireza Rajaei ( fa, علیرضا رجائی) is an Iranian journalist. He is considered one of the members of the Nationalist-Religious alliance of Iran. He was elected as a member of parliament by the people of Tehran in the sixth Iran parliam ...

References

External links

* ''Iran-e-Farda'' a
iran-archive.com
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