[2] At the age of twelve, after just five years of elementary school, he began his first job, as "a janitor and messenger boy in a print shop".

[2] After a few months he moved to a small room in Nasser Khosro (Naser Khosrow) Street[4] in the heart of the city's Grand Bazaar district[5] where he began publishing books.

[6] Other notable publications included a luxury edition of the Shahnameh (1971) featuring "calligraphy, miniatures, and ink drawings"[1] by well-known Iranian artists.

His publishing firm was "confiscated by court order and transferred to Sāzemān-e Tabliḡāt-e Eslāmi (the Organization for the Promotion of Islam)".

He lived his final years in "forced retirement" while continuing his fight to gain repossession of Amir Kabir.

[4] The Iranian filmmaker Mehrdad Sheikhan has argued that Jafari's "efforts, not just as a publisher, but also as a social pioneer, were to provide some space for authors and newcomer writers, poets, translators, artists and even editors, so they could create new and distinguished works".

[3] Some of the new writers published and championed by Jafari included Forugh Farrokhzad, Simin Behbahani, Rahi Mo'ayyeri and Mina Assadi.