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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Keyhan Institute |
| Founder(s) | Abdolrahman Faramarzi Mostafa Mesbahzadeh |
| Editor | Hossein Shariatmadari |
| Founded | 27 May 1942 |
| Political alignment | Principlists |
| Headquarters | Ferdowsi Street, Tehran, Iran |
| OCLC number | 473890618 |
| Website | kayhan |
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Kayhan (Persian: کيهان, lit. 'The Cosmos') is a Persian-language newspaper published in Tehran, Iran. It is considered "the most conservative and hard-line Iranian newspaper."[1] Hossein Shariatmadari is the editor-in-chief of Kayhan. According to the report of the New York Times in 2007, his official position is representative of the Supreme Leader of Iran.[2]
Kayhan has about 1,000 employees worldwide.[2] There are conflicting reports about its circulation numbers: in 2006 the BBC gave it as 60,000–100,000 copies,[3] in 2007 the New York Times gave "about 70,000", and in 2008 a New York University School of Law journal article reported it as 350,000 copies.[4] Kayhan also publishes special foreign editions, which include the English-language Kayhan International.[1]
- ^ a b Shapour Ghasemi (2006). "Kayhan Newspaper". Iran Chamber Society. Retrieved 31 January 2010.
- ^ a b Michael Slackman (22 September 2007). "Freed by Revolution, He Speaks for Iran's Hard-Liners". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 January 2010.
- ^ "The press in Iran". BBC News. 13 December 2006. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
- ^ "Notable Middle Eastern" (PDF). The NYU Review of Law and Security (8–9): 14. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 December 2014.