Iran-e Farda (Persian: ایران فردا, romanized: Īrān-i fardā, lit. 'Tomorrow's Iran') is an Iranian nationalist-religious periodical publication printed in magazine-format and published digitally that focuses on current sociopolitical affairs of Iran.
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Cover of No. 131, June 2020
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| Editor | Keyvan Samimi |
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| Categories | Social, Political, Economical, Cultural |
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| Format | A4 |
| Publisher | Hamed Sahabi |
| Total circulation (2000) | 50,000 |
| Founder | Ezatollah Sahabi |
| Founded | 1992; 32 years ago (1992) |
| First issue | June 1992 (1992-06) |
| Final issue | December 2020 (2020-12) |
| Country | Iran |
| Based in | Tehran |
| Language | Persian |
| OCLC | 1011738022 |
Iran-e-Farda began publication in 1992.[1] As of December 1995, one survey found that the magazine was Iran's leading political monthly.[2] In 1996, the state-run IRIB TV1 aired a programme named Hoviyat which frequently attacked Iran-e-Farda and accused it of being one of the "bases for the West's cultural invasion of Iran".[3] In response, the magazine's managing director Ezatollah Sahabi wrote an open letter to President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, which was published by Salam, asking for an opportunity to defend itself.[3] During presidency of Mohammad Khatami, it became increasingly outspoken in advocating civil society and asked Khatami to fulfill his promises and called for more freedom and tolerance.[4] It also frequently criticized the conservative establishment.[5]
The magazine was banned in April 2000[6] during crackdown of more than a dozen reformist newspapers.[7] At the time, it had been published on a biweekly basis and had an estimated circulation of 50,000 which was several times more than most other periodicals in Iran.[8]
Iran-e-Farda was relaunched in May 2014 but ceased publication in December 2020, after it was banned again.[9]
The magazine was known as the mouthpiece of the Council of Nationalist-Religious Activists of Iran[10] and has been described as "an intellectual monthly which became a forum for their liberal notion of Islam",[11] as well as "associated with the Freedom Movement of Iran".[12] According to Wilfried Buchta, the magazine was where "Islamic-left" and "nationalist-religious" were gathered around Ezatollah Sahabi.[13] Yadullah Shahibzadeh argues that post-Islamist and neo-Shariatist movements have been associated with Iran-e-Farda and used it as a platform to enter the public space in the 1990s.[1]
Ezatollah Sahabi was the founder and managing director of Iran-e-Farda and Reza Alijani was its editor-in-chief.[14] After relaunch in 2014, Kayvan Samimi served as its editor-in-chief and Hamed Sahabi was the magazine's publisher.[9]
Contributing editors and other columnists who at some time have wrote for Iran-e-Farda include:
