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Iran-e Bastan
EditorAbdulrahman Saif Azad
CategoriesPolitical magazine
FrequencyWeekly
FounderAbdulrahman Saif Azad
Founded1933
First issue21 January 1933
Final issue1937
Country Iran
Based in Tehran
Language Persian

Iran-e Bastan ( Persian: ایران باستان, lit. 'Ancient Iran'), also known as Nameh-ye Iran Bastan, [1] 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 [2] who was also the founder and license holder of the magazine. [3] [4] The magazine was published in Tehran on a weekly basis. [3] [5] It enjoyed significant financial support from Persians during its early years. [4] Germans also sponsored Iran-e Bastan. [6] 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. [1]

Iran-e Bastan featured news and frequently published articles praising the ancient civilizations of Persia which were used to support an anti-imperialist perspective. [2] [5] The magazine also covered news about the achievements of Nazi Germany in the fields of science and technology. [2] Due to its increasing pro-Nazi stance the magazine lost the financial support from Persians. [4] Iran-e Bastan folded in 1937 when Abdulrahman Saif Azad left Iran for Europe. [3] Following World War II he returned to Iran and restarted Iran-e Bastan in 1947, but he could not manage to continue its publication. [3]

References

  1. ^ a b Reza Zia-Ebrahimi (July 2011). "Self-Orientalization and Dislocation: The Uses and Abuses of the "Aryan" Discourse in Iran". Iranian Studies. 44 (4): 458. doi: 10.1080/00210862.2011.569326. JSTOR  23033306. S2CID  143904752.
  2. ^ a b c "Iran in the 1950s". University of Manchester Library. Archived from the original on 17 November 2021. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d Laurence Paul Elwell-Sutton (1968). "The Iranian Press, 1941-1947". Iran. 6: 79. doi: 10.2307/4299603. JSTOR  4299603.
  4. ^ a b c Dinyar Patel (2021). "Caught between Two Nationalisms: The Iran League of Bombay and the political anxieties of an Indian minority". Modern Asian Studies. 55 (3): 788, 796. doi: 10.1017/S0026749X20000049. S2CID  225686296.
  5. ^ a b Talinn Grigor (2021). "A Network of Inconsistencies in Iran's Nationalism". Diaspora. A Journal of Transnational Studies. 21 (1): 103.
  6. ^ L. P. Elwell-Sutton (2013). Modern Iran (RLE Iran A). London; New York: Routledge. p. 167. ISBN  978-1-136-84161-3.
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