Iranian journalist and politician

Mostafa Mesbahzadeh (August 20, 1908 – December 25, 2006) was an Iranian journalist and member of the Senate of Iran. Together with Abdolrahman Faramarzi, he co-founded the newspaper Kayhan.

Background

Mostafa Mesbahzadeh was born in 1908 in the city of Shiraz, Iran. He was one of the students sent to Europe by the Iranian government during the reign of Reza Shah Pahlavi. He returned to Iran after obtaining a doctorate in law from the Sorbonne University in Paris and began teaching at the University of Tehran.

Mesbahzadeh, with the help of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, founded the newspaper Kayhan in 1931. Contrary to what is sometimes said, Kayhan derives its name from the French newspaper Le Monde; Le Monde started two years after Kayhan (Le Monde means Kayhan in French).

Two years before the fall of the monarchy and the victory of the revolution and the subsequent establishment of the Islamic Republic, Mostafa Mesbahzadeh left Iran and practically handed over the management of the newspaper to his son Iraj.

After the revolution, the Kayhan newspaper was confiscated by the revolutionary government, but Mesbahzadeh, who was living in London at the time, gathered a number of writers and journalists who had fled the country to publish a weekly newspaper called "Kayhan in Exile". Published in London, it later became known as the Kayhan London.Mostefa Mesbah Zadeh After a long period of illness, died on November 25, 2006 (98 years old) in San Diego, California, US.

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