''Mard-i Imruz'' ( fa, مرد امروز, lit=The Man of Today) 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 a ...

weekly newspaper which was in circulation between 1942 and 1948. It was based in Tehran, Iran. The paper was among the opposition publications of the period.

History and profile

''Mard-i Imruz'' was established by

Mohammad Masud Mohammad Masud (1905–1948) was an Iranian journalist and writer. He published some books and launched a weekly newspaper, '' Mard-i Imruz'' (Persian: ''The Man of Today''). He was an ardent critic of the Pahlavi rule and Ahmad Qavam. Masud was ...

who was the license holder, and the first issue appeared on 20 August 1942. The paper was headquartered in Tehran. It was subject to frequent bans due to its critical approach towards the Iranian government and its tendency to make blackmail to the rich. One of the contributors was

Hossein Fatemi Hossein Fatemi ( fa, حسین فاطمی; also Romanized as Hoseyn Fātemi; 10 February 1917 – 10 November 1954) was an Iranian scholar. A close associate of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, he proposed nationalization of Iranian oil and gas ...

, future foreign minister. Political cartoons were regularly used in the paper to express its opposition to the authorities. In 1943 ''Mard-i Imruz'' was made the official organ of the Paikar Party and involved in the establishment of the Independent Front in 1944. Next year in October the license of the paper was revoked which was renewed in April 1946. Then the paper stopped its attacks against the authorities until March 1947 when the harsh criticisms of the paper appeared again. Then Masud was arrested, and ''Mard-i Imruz'' was closed down for two weeks. In October 1947 Masud publicly argued in the paper that Prime Minister

Ahmad Qavam Ahmad Qavam (2 January 1873 – 23 July 1955; fa, احمد قوام), also known as Qavam os-Saltaneh ( fa, قوام السلطنه), was a politician who served as Prime Minister of Iran five times. Early life Qavam was born in 1873 to a p ...

should be murdered due to the oil concession deal with the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

. The paper ceased publication on 14 February 1948 the day after the assassination of Mohammad Masud.

Legacy

Hossein Fatemi launched his daily newspaper, '' Bakhtar-e Emruz'', to succeed ''Mard-i Imruz''.

References

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