''Jomhouri-e Eslami'' () is an official Iranian newspaper, which started its work on 30 May 1979, as the newspaper of

Islamic Republic Party The Islamic Republican Party (IRP; , also translated Islamic Republic Party) was formed in 1979 to assist the Iranian Revolution and Ayatollah Khomeini in their goal to establish theocracy in Iran. It was disbanded in 1987 due to internal confl ...

. In the beginning it was under the grantee of Islamic Republic Party and its

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was

Ali Khamenei Ali Hosseini Khamenei (; born 19 April 1939) is an Iranian cleric and politician who has served as the second supreme leader of Iran since 1989. He previously served as the third President of Iran, president from 1981 to 1989. Khamenei's tenure ...

Mir-Hossein Mousavi Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh (, ; born 2 March 1942) is an Iranian politician, artist, architect and opposition figure who served as the 45th and last Prime Minister of Iran from 1981 to 1989. He was a reformist candidate for the 2009 Iranian p ...

was its

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. Even after the closure of

, the ''Jomhouri-e Eslami'' newspaper continued its work. The paper is one of the state-sponsored publications together with ''

Ettela'at ''Ettela'at'' () is a Persian-language daily newspaper of record published in Tehran, Iran. It is among the oldest publications in the country, and the oldest running Persian daily newspaper in the world. The paper has a conservative stance, a ...

'' and ''

Kayhan ''Kayhan'' () is a Persian-language newspaper published in Tehran, Iran. It is considered "the most conservative and hard-line Iranian newspaper." Hossein Shariatmadari is the editor-in-chief of ''Kayhan''. According to the report of the ' ...

'' of which publishers are directly appointed by the

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. As of 2013 the paper was described as "reputedly close to" Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani. Islamic Republican has a daily circulation of over 100,000 copies and is considered to be one of the most influential newspapers in Iran. The newspaper has been the subject of controversy over the years, with some critics accusing it of promoting the Iranian government's propaganda and censoring dissenting views.

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