Iran-e Bastan

{{Short description|Iranian political magazine (1933–1937)}}

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| editor = Abdulrahman Saif Azad

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| frequency = Weekly

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| category = Political magazine

| founder = Abdulrahman Saif Azad

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| founded = 1933

| firstdate = 21 January 1933

| country = Iran

| based = Tehran

| language = Persian

| finaldate = 1937

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Iran-e Bastan ({{langx|fa|ایران باستان|italic=yes|lit=Ancient Iran}}), also known as Nameh-ye Iran Bastan ({{lang|fa|نامهٔ ایران باستان|italic=yes}}),{{cite journal

|author=Reza Zia-Ebrahimi|title=Self-Orientalization and Dislocation: The Uses and Abuses of the "Aryan" Discourse in Iran|journal=Iranian Studies|date=July 2011|volume=44|issue=4|page=458|doi=10.1080/00210862.2011.569326|jstor=23033306|s2cid=143904752}} was a Persian-language weekly political and news magazine which was published in Tehran, Iran, in the period 1933–1937. The publication is known for its pro-Nazi and anti-imperialist political stance.

==History and profile==

Iran-e Bastan was first published on 21 January 1933 and edited by a Nazi sympathiser Persian journalist Abdulrahman Saif Azad{{cite web|title=Iran in the 1950s|url=https://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/using-the-library/staff/digitisation-services/projects/nashriyah-digital-iranian-history/iran-in-the-1950s/|publisher=University of Manchester Library|access-date=31 December 2021|archive-date=17 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211117231124/https://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/using-the-library/staff/digitisation-services/projects/nashriyah-digital-iranian-history/iran-in-the-1950s/}} who was also the founder and license holder of the magazine.{{cite journal|author=Laurence Paul Elwell-Sutton|author-link=Laurence Paul Elwell-Sutton|title=The Iranian Press, 1941-1947

|journal=Iran|year=1968|volume=6|page=79|doi=10.2307/4299603|jstor=4299603}}{{cite journal|author=Dinyar Patel|title=Caught between Two Nationalisms: The Iran League of Bombay and the political anxieties of an Indian minority|journal=Modern Asian Studies|year=2021

|issue=3|volume=55|pages=788,796|doi=10.1017/S0026749X20000049|s2cid=225686296}} The magazine was published in Tehran on a weekly basis.{{cite journal|author=Talinn Grigor|date=2021|volume=21|title=A Network of Inconsistencies in Iran's Nationalism|journal=Diaspora. A Journal of Transnational Studies|issue=1|page=103|url=https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/786093}} It enjoyed significant financial support from Persians during its early years. Germans also sponsored Iran-e Bastan.{{cite book

|author=L. P. Elwell-Sutton|title=Modern Iran (RLE Iran A)|publisher=Routledge|year=2013|isbn=978-1-136-84161-3|page=167|location=London; New York|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nKkZS76KOJQC&pg=PA167}} There is a report arguing that the magazine was directly published by the Nazi Ministry of Propaganda and that the real editor was a member of the Nazi Party, Major von Vibran.

Iran-e Bastan featured news and frequently published articles praising the ancient civilizations of Persia which were used to support an anti-imperialist perspective. The magazine also covered news about the achievements of Nazi Germany in the fields of science and technology. Due to its increasing pro-Nazi stance the magazine lost the financial support from Persians. Iran-e Bastan folded in 1937 when Abdulrahman Saif Azad left Iran for Europe. Following World War II he returned to Iran and restarted Iran-e Bastan in 1947, but he could not manage to continue its publication.