Vatan-e-Emrooz

Vatan-e Emrooz (Persian: وطن امروز 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 of 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-Bléone, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France.[2] Javadi traveled with Iranian Sports journalist Milad Hojjatoleslami of the Tasnim News Agency.[3]

References
  1. "لغو امتیاز «آریا» و صدور دو مجوز برای هواداران احمدی نژاد". رادیو فردا.
  2. Saeed Kamali Dehghan. "Two Iranian journalists among dead in Germanwings flight 4U 9525 crash". the Guardian.
  3. "PressTV-Iran reporters among Germanwings victims". presstv.ir.
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