Ayandegan
{{Short description|Persian-language newspaper published in Iran (1967–1979)}}
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| founder = Daryoush Homayoun
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| editor = Daryoush Homayoun (1967–1977)
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| foundation = 16 December 1967
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| language = Persian
| ceased publication = 8 August 1979
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| headquarters = Tehran
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Ayandegan ({{langx|fa|آیندگان}} lit. "The Future People") was one of the most influential and popular daily newspapers in Iran during Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's rule. It was the first morning daily paper of Iran.{{cite thesis|author=A.H. Fink|title=The importance of conspiracy theory in extremist ideology and propaganda|url=https://hdl.handle.net/1887/87359|location=Leiden University
|degree=PhD|year=2020|hdl=1887/87359|page=395}} It had an independent and critical stance.{{cite journal|author=James A. Bill|title=The Plasticity of Informal Politics: The Case of Iran|journal=The Middle East Journal|date=Spring 1973|volume=27|issue=2
|page=147|jstor=4325054}} The paper was also a liberal and nationalist publication in the Pahlavi period.
History and profile
Ayandegan was founded in 1967 by Daryoush Homayoun, and its first issue appeared on 16 December that year.{{cite book
|author=Hossein Shahidi|title=Journalism in Iran: From Mission to Profession|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MLLywtI-_n0C&pg=PA33|year=2007
|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-09391-5|page=33|location=London; New York}}{{cite encyclopedia|author1=L. P. Elwell-Sutton |author2=P. Mohajer|title=Ayandagan|url=https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ayandagan-newspaper|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica |volume=III|pages=132–133|issue=2|date=15 December 1987}} From its start in 1967 to 1977 Homayoun edited the paper,{{cite web
|title=Homayoun, Daryush|url=http://fis-iran.org/en/oralhistory/homayun-daryush|work=Foundation for Iranian Studies|access-date=19 May 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150520045132/http://fis-iran.org/en/oralhistory/homayun-daryush
|archive-date=20 May 2015}} which held a liberal stance. The paper had its headquarters in Tehran.
In the immediate aftermath of the 1979 revolution, Ayandegan enjoyed higher levels of circulation selling 400,000 copies.{{cite journal|author=Asef Bayat|author-link=Asef Bayat|title=Revolution without Movement, Movement without Revolution: Comparing Islamic Activism in Iran and Egypt|journal=Comparative Studies in Society and History|year=1998|volume=40|issue=1|page=152|jstor=179392
|doi=10.1017/S0010417598980057|s2cid=54197847 }} However, the paper was banned on 12 May 1979 due to its criticisms over the Islamic government's censorship and limitations on the freedom of press.{{cite journal|author=Nicholas M. Nikazmerad|title=A Chronological Survey of the Iranian Revolution|journal=Iranian Studies|year=1980|volume=13|issue=1/4|page=356,360
|jstor=4310346|doi=10.1080/00210868008701575}}{{cite journal|title=Chronology February 16, 1979-May 15, 1979|journal=The Middle East Journal|date=Summer 1979|volume=33|issue=3|page=357|jstor=4325879}} In fact, on the same day the paper published three empty pages to protest over the statements of Ayatullah Khomeini who declared that he would not read Ayandegan.{{cite book
|author1=Mehrzad Boroujerdi|author2=Kourosh Rahimkhani|title=Postrevolutionary Iran. A Political Handbook|date=2018|publisher=Syracuse University Press|location=Syracuse, NY|isbn=978-0815635741|page=10|url=https://irandataportal.syr.edu/postrevolutionary-iran-a-political-handbook}} Soon after this incident Ayatullah Khomeini stated that the paper was both depraved and deviationist. Then the revolutionary prosecutor closed the newspaper on 8 August 1979.[http://www.iranchamber.com/history/islamic_revolution/revolution_and_iran_after1979_1.php Revolution and Iran after 1979] Iran Chamber.{{cite book|author=Houchang E. Chehabi|title=Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran Under the Shah and Khomeini|location=Ithaca, NY|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JJEIQbUnGyYC&pg=PA268|year=1990|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=978-1-85043-198-5|page=268|author-link=Houchang Chehabi}} The staff were also arrested.
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