Resalat (newspaper)

Resalat

Type	Daily
Owner(s)	Resalat Foundation
Editor	Morteza Nabavi
Founded	9 January 1986; 39 years ago (1986-01-09)
Political alignment	Traditional Principlism
Language	Persian
Headquarters	Tehran, Iran
Website	resalat-news.com

Resalat (Persian: رسالت, lit. 'The Prophecy') is a Persian-language conservative daily newspaper in Tehran, Iran.[1] It is a pro-Khamenei and pro-Ahmadinejad newspaper.

History and profile

Resalat was first published in 1985.[2] The paper belongs to the Resalat Foundation[3] and focuses on political, cultural, social, economic and sports news.[4] Morteza Nabavi is the editor-in-chief of the daily which has a conservative stance.[2][3] Amir Mohebbian served as the political editor of the paper.[5]

In its mission statement, Resalat declares that "The goal of the daily is to spread the words of God, and Ahl al-Bayt (Shia) school of thought in order to establish the God's will and governance of Fiqh and Vilayat-e Faqih."[6] It is close to the Islamic Coalition Party.[2]

The paper is based in Tehran.[7][8] Its circulation ranged between 30,000 and 50,000 copies in the mid-2000s.[2]

See also

• List of newspapers in Iran
• Mass media in Iran

References

1. About us Resalat
2. "Guide to Iranian Media and Broadcast" (PDF). BBC Monitoring. March 2007. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
3. "The Political Affiliations of Iranian Newspapers" (PDF). ASL19. 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
4. Abdolrasoul Jowkar; Fereshteh Didegah (2010). "Evaluating Iranian newspapers' web sites using correspondence analysis". Library Hi Tech. 28 (1): 119–130. doi:10.1108/07378831011026733.
5. Trita Parsi (1 October 2007). Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States. Yale University Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-300-13806-1.
6. About Resalat
7. Said Amir Arjomand; Nathan J. Brown (25 March 2013). The Rule of Law, Islam, and Constitutional Politics in Egypt and Iran. SUNY Press. p. 100. ISBN 978-1-4384-4598-4.
8. Resalat Newspaper Kompass. Retrieved 22 September 2014.

External links

Official website

• Media related to Resalat (newspaper) at Wikimedia Commons