Mirza Mohammad Ali Khan Kashani, founded the periodical Sorayya (1898-1900) which was later published in Cairo, also briefly worked for the journal.

The distribution of this journal extended from many cities of Iran and the Ottoman Empire to the Caucasus and South East Asia.

[1] According to contemporaneous Iranologist Edward Granville Browne, writing in 1888, Akhtar was "the only Persian publication worth reading".

[1] Even though Akhtar as a journal published in exile could report more freely, the Ottoman censors suspended it several times.

[3] After the assassination of Iranian monarch Naser al-Din Shah Qajar in 1896, the Ottoman government permanently banned the journal.