''Iran-e Bastan'' ( fa, ایران باستان, italic=yes, lit=Ancient Iran), also known as ''Nameh-ye Iran Bastan'' (), was 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 ...

weekly political and news magazine which was published in

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 ...

, Iran, in the period 1933–1937. The publication is known for its pro-Nazi and anti-imperialist political stance.

History and profile

''Iran-e Bastan'' was first published on 21 January 1933 and edited by a Nazi sympathiser Persian journalist Abdulrahman Saif Azad who was also the founder and license holder of the magazine. The magazine was published in Tehran on a weekly basis. It enjoyed significant financial support from Persians during its early years. Germans also sponsored ''Iran-e Bastan''. There is a report arguing that the magazine was directly published by the Nazi Ministry of Propaganda and that the real editor was a member of the Nazi Party, Major von Vibran. ''Iran-e Bastan'' featured news and frequently published articles praising the

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of Persia which were used to support an anti-imperialist perspective. The magazine also covered news about the achievements of

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in the fields of science and technology. Due to its increasing pro-Nazi stance the magazine lost the financial support from Persians. ''Iran-e Bastan'' folded in 1937 when Abdulrahman Saif Azad left Iran for Europe. Following

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he returned to Iran and restarted ''Iran-e Bastan'' in 1947, but he could not manage to continue its publication.

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