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Sadreddin Elahi Sadreddin Elahi (Persian: صدرالدین الهی; 4 December 1934 – 29 December 2021) was an Iranian journalist, professor, activist, and author. He is often referred to as the "Pioneer of Modern Iranian Journalism". He served as dean of t ...

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. Together with Abdolrahman Faramarzi, he co-founded the newspaper '' Kayhan''.

Background

Mostafa Mesbahzadeh was born on 18 November 1908 in

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. He returned to Iran after obtaining a doctorate in criminal law from

in 1936 and began teaching at the

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. In 1931, Mesbahzadeh founded '' Kayhan'' with the help of

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. Two years before the fall of the monarchy and the subsequent establishment of the

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, Mostafa Mesbahzadeh left Iran and practically handed over the management of the newspaper to his son, Iraj. After the revolution, the Kayhan newspaper was confiscated by the revolutionary government; Mesbahzadeh, who was living in

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at the time, gathered a number of writers and journalists who had fled the country to publish a weekly newspaper called ''Kayhan-in-exile''; it was later known as '' Kayhan London''. After a long period of illness, Mostefa Mesbahzadeh died on 25 November 2006 in

References

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*{{Cite book, url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Eminent_Persians/ixU33FaG_dgC?hl=en, title=Eminent Persians: The Men and Women Who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979, first=Abbas, last=Milani, date=2008, volume=1, pages=399–405 1908 births 2006 deaths Iranian journalists Iranian politicians 20th-century Iranian people People of Pahlavi Iran University of Paris alumni Academic staff of the University of Tehran