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, alma_mater =

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, occupation = Journalist, Publisher, and Politician , years_active = , era = , employer = , organization = , agent = , known_for = Member of the

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Co-founder of the ''

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 ' ...

'' newspaper , notable_works = , style = , net_worth = , height = , television = , title = , term = , predecessor = , successor = , party = , movement = , opponents = , boards = , criminal_charges = , criminal_penalty = , criminal_status = , spouse = Forough-Azam Ettehadiyeh , partner = Forough-Azam Ettehadiyeh , children = 3 , parents = , mother = , father = , relatives = Iraj Mesbahzadeh, Parviz Mesbahzadeh, Nazenine Mesbahzadeh, Farhad Moshiri , family = , callsign = , awards = Legion of Honor , website = , module2 = , module3 = , module4 = , module5 = , module6 = , signature = , signature_size = , signature_alt = , footnotes = , module = Mostafa Khan Mesbahzadeh (; August 18, 1908 – December 25, 2006) was an

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Publisher, President of Kayhan Media Corporation, Founder of the Iranian College of Press and Communication ("Daneshkadeh-ye Matbou'at va Oloum-e Ejtema'i", ), University Professor, Member of Parliament and Senator, Member of the

. Together with Abdolrahman Faramarzi, Mesbahzadeh co-founded in 1942 the daily newspaper ''

''. Dr. Mostafa Mesbahzadeh turned Kayhan into the largest media group in the Middle East, with daily and weekly publications, magazines dedicated to youth, to sports (''Kayhan-e Varzeshi''), to children (''Kayhan-e Bachcheha''), to women (''Zan-e Rouz''), and international edition in English (''Kayhan International'').

Background

Mostafa Mesbahzadeh was born on 18 November 1908 in

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. He was one of the students sent to Europe by the Iranian government during the reign of

Reza Shah Pahlavi Reza Shah Pahlavi born Reza Khan (15 March 1878 – 26 July 1944) was shah of Iran from 1925 to 1941 and founder of the roughly 53 years old Pahlavi dynasty. Originally a military officer, he became a politician, serving as minister of war an ...

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

in 1936 and began teaching at the

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. In 1942, Dr. Mesbahzadeh founded ''

'' with the help of

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. 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 ''

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''. After a long period of illness, Mostafa Mesbahzadeh died on 25 November 2006 in

References

Bibliography

* {{Authority control 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