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It is considered "the most conservative and hard-line Iranian newspaper." [1] Hossein Shariatmadari is the editor-in-chief of Kayhan. According to the report of the New York Times in 2007, his official position is representative of the Supreme Leader of Iran. [2] Kayhan has about 1,000 employees worldwide. [2]
Kayhan newspaper was founded in 1942 in Tehran by Mostafa Mesbahzadeh. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] By 1970's Kayhan had become the largest press group in the Middle East, with numerous publications and magazines. Mesbahzadeh revived the original newspaper four years after the 1979 Islamic revolution in London, under the label Kayhan (of) London.
Kayhan Al Arabi (Arabic: كيهان العربي, lit. 'Arab Cosmos / Arab World') is an Arabic-language newspaper published in Tehran , Iran. One of the country's oldest daily papers, run after the revolution by the office of the Supreme Leader , [ citation needed ] who appoints the editor-in-chief , currently Hossein Shariatmadari .
Nazenin Ansari (Persian: نازنین انصاری) is an Iranian journalist, managing editor of Kayhan London (Persian: کیهان لندن), a weekly Persian-language digital newspaper based in London, covering Iran's politics, economy, society, environment and culture, and their impact on the international scene. Critical of the Islamic ...
After the revolution, the Kayhan newspaper was confiscated by the revolutionary government. Mesbahzadeh, who was living in London 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.
Mehdi Nasiri (Persian: مهدی نصیری; born 1963) is an Iranian journalist and writer, currently serving as the editor-in-chief of the publication Samat (سمات).His illustrious career includes previous roles as the editor-in-chief and managing director of the weekly Sobh (صبح) and the daily newspaper Kayhan.
While still in his last year of high school (1954), he joined the Kayhan newspaper (now Kayhan London), founded by his first-cousin, Mostafa Mesbahzadeh. He is known as the founder of modern journalism in Iran and founded the weekly Kayhan Varzeshi (Kayhan Sports), which was first published in the fall of 1956 in Tehran and still continues. In ...
After the controversial 2009 election and weeks of protest, Shariatmadari wrote an editorial in Kayhan alleging that defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi was trying to "escape punishment for murdering innocent people, holding riots, cooperating with foreigners and acting as America's fifth column inside the country" and called for Mousavi and former reformist President Mohammad Khatami to be ...