Kaghaz-e Akhbar

Kaghaz-e Akhbar
The Jumada al-Ula 1253 (3 August 1837 – 1 September 1837) issue of Kaghaz-e Akhbar
TypeMonthly newspaper
Founder(s)Mirza Saleh Shirazi
Founded1 May 1837
LanguagePersian
CityTehran

Kaghaz-e Akhbar (Persian: کاغذ اخبار; lit. "paper of news") was a monthly newspaper published in Qajar Iran.

Publishing its first issue on 1 May 1837, it was the first newspaper to be published in Iran, which was then known as Persia.

The newspaper's creation was ordered by Mohammad Shah Qajar and was directed by Mirza Saleh Shirazi in Tehran.[1] It did not have a specific name and was a direct translation of the English word "newspaper" into Persian.[2][3] The first issue included news such as the actions of the Shah, the defeating of the Turkmen Gokalan and Yomut tribes and forced migration of their women and children to the Iranian capital of Tehran.

Although the newspaper was published every month without an interruption for at least three years, only a few scattered copies remain, with only two copies held in the British library.[2][4]

  1. ^ "کاغذ اخبار، اولین روزنامه ایران؛ شروعی با تأخیر و نادرست" [Kaghaz-e Akhbar, the first newspaper in Iran, a belated and wrong start]. BBC News فارسی (in Persian). Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  2. ^ a b "اولین روزنامه در ایران از زبان مؤسس آن" [First newspaper in Iran in its founder's words]. dowran.ir. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  3. ^ "سیری در پیدایش و تحول خط". برگزیده‌ها (in Persian). Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  4. ^ "The first Iranian newspaper: Mirza Salih Shirazi's Kaghaz-i akhbar". blogs.bl.uk. Retrieved 2022-04-25.