Neshat
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Morteza Fallah
Founder(s)Hamid Reza Jalaipour
PublisherLatif Safari (former)
Founded1998
Political alignmentReformist
LanguagePersian
Ceased publication2005
HeadquartersTehran
CountryIran
ISSN2173-4976

Neshat (Persian: نشاط; lit. Vivacity or Joy) was a reformist and moderate Persian language newspaper published in Iran and headquartered in Tehran. The paper was founded in 1998 and published until 2005 when it was banned by the Iranian authorities.

History and profile

Neshat was launched by Hamid Reza Jalaipour in 1998[1] after two other reformist papers, Jameah and Toos, were closed down.[2][3] The paper was their successor.[4][5] The paper was based in Tehran.[6] Latif Safari was the publisher and director of the daily.[7][8] Mashallah Shamsolvaezin served as the editor-in-chief of the paper.[2] Most of the editors were those who had written for Jameah and Toos newspapers.[6]

The paper, a reformist and moderate publication, was banned on 4 September 1998 shortly after its start.[9] It was again banned by the Iran's Press Court in September 1999 following the publication of articles which had challenged the death sentence in Iran.[6][7] In addition, there were a total of 74 charges against the paper.[10] Due to these charges the paper was found guilty of "insulting the sanctity and tenets of Islam."[11]

In November 1999 Mashallah Shamsolvaezi was also arrested and taken to the Evin prison due to the articles mentioned above.[12] He was sentenced to three years in prison.[9] The publisher of the daily, Latif Safari, was also sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison in April 2000 for publishing the articles.[13][14] The ban was lifted by Iran's supreme court in March 2005.[8] However, it was again shut down later.[2]

In September 2013 it was reported that Neshat would be relaunched, and its license holder would be Morteza Fallah.[15] In addition, Mashallah Shamsolvaezi would resume his post as the editor-in-chief of the paper, and Ahmad Sattari would be its managing editor.[15] However, the necessary publication license was not granted by the authorities.[16]

References

  1. ↑ Gholam Khiabany; Annabelle Sreberny (2001). "The Iranian Press and the Continuing Struggle Over Civil Society 1998-2000". International Communication Gazette. 63 (2–3): 203–223. doi:10.1177/0016549201063002007. S2CID 145138547.
  2. 1 2 3 "Neshat". Iran Media Group. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
  3. ↑ "Three reformist papers shut". Iran Press Service. 23 April 2000. Retrieved 18 October 2013.
  4. ↑ A.W. Samii (September 2001). "Sisyphus' Newsstand: The Iranian Press Under Khatami". Middle East Review of International Affairs. 5 (3).
  5. ↑ David Menashri (2001). Post-revolutionary Politics in Iran: Religion, Society, and Power. London: Frank Cass. p. 326. ISBN 978-0-7146-5074-6.
  6. 1 2 3 A. W. Samii (December 1999). "The Contemporary Iranian News Media, 1998-1999". Middle East Review of International Affairs. 4 (4).
  7. 1 2 "Iran Bars Newspaper Director From Working". The New York Times. 26 September 1999. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
  8. 1 2 "Iran lifts ban on reformist paper". BBC. 9 March 2005. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
  9. 1 2 Behzad Yaghmaian (2002). Social Change in Iran: An Eyewitness Account of Dissent, Defiance, and New Movements for Rights. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-7914-5212-7.
  10. ↑ Ali Raiss Tousi (20 September 1999). "Reformist Iranian daily answers anti-Islam charges". Iranian. Tehran. Reuters. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
  11. ↑ "Iranian newspaper director 'guilty'". BBC. 21 September 1999. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
  12. ↑ "Shamsolvaezin taken to evin prison". Green Party of Iran. Tehran. IRNA. 2 November 1999. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
  13. ↑ "Iran's liberal press muzzled". BBC. 24 April 2000. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
  14. ↑ "Iran" (PDF). Amnesty International. 2001. Retrieved 6 September 2014.
  15. 1 2 "Banned pro-reform daily to republished after 14 years". Iran Daily Brief. 11 September 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
  16. ↑ "Press freedom in Iran improves slightly under Rouhani". Al Monitor. Tehran. 24 February 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
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