Word: ayandegan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tell me it's a bad dream," sobbed the woman as she bent over her badly wounded husband in downtown Tehran. The couple had been among the more than 100,000 people who took to the streets last Sunday to protest the closure of the popular daily Ayandegan by the increasingly repressive rule of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. As they marched, they chanted slogans denouncing the "regime's encroachments on the people's fundamental liberties." Suddenly, sacks of fine earth were flung into the air by bands of marauding "phalangists," street toughs who break up antigovernment demonstrations...
Wherever the Shah ends up, there will be fewer Iranian newspapers around to report it. Apparently angered by an article about Forghan, a terrorist group that last month killed a member of Iran's ruling Islamic Revolutionary Council, the Ayatullah Khomeini declared that he would never again read Ayandegan, Tehran's leading morning daily (circ. 400,000). After thousands of rock-throwing demonstrators massed at the paper's office, editors published a farewell issue consisting of a front-page editorial and three blank pages. Said the editorial: "Until the government clarifies its position regarding the press...
When the afternoon Kayhan published a facsimile of Ayandegan's final front page, the Islamic Workers' Council at the newspaper's print shop staged a three-hour strike that ultimately led to the dismissal of 22 "leftist" journalists from the staff. After other staff members walked out in protest, the workers' council brought out an edition themselves and took copies to Khomeini's headquarters in the city of Qum. Their action was praised by the Ayatullah, who intoned that "the press must print only what the people want." Some Iranian journalists believe that Khomeini...
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