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Persian-language newspaper in Iran
Vatan-e Emrooz
(Persian: ??? ????? lit. "Homeland Today") is a full-color daily Persian-language newspaper managed by
Mehrdad Bazrpash
(an ally of former president
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
and former head of the student
Basij
organization branch at
Sharif University of Technology
). It began publication just before the
Iranian presidential election
in 2009. The newspaper belongs to conservative parties and was a supporter of Ahmadinejad. There are claims that the newspaper is using government-owned companies as sources of financial support.
[1]
Sports journalist Hossein Javadi was among the victims on 24 March 2015, of the
Germanwings Flight 9525
, which crashed in
Prads-Haute-Bleone
,
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
,
France
.
[2]
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