Iran-e Farda (Persian: ایران فردا, romanized: Īrān-i fardā, lit.
[2] In 1996, the state-run IRIB TV1 aired a programme named Hoviyat which frequently attacked Iran-e-Farda and accused it of being one of the "bases for the West's cultural invasion of Iran".
[3] In response, the magazine's managing director Ezatollah Sahabi wrote an open letter to President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, which was published by Salam, asking for an opportunity to defend itself.
[13] Yadullah Shahibzadeh argues that post-Islamist and neo-Shariatist movements have been associated with Iran-e-Farda and used it as a platform to enter the public space in the 1990s.
[1] Ezatollah Sahabi was the founder and managing director of Iran-e-Farda and Reza Alijani was its editor-in-chief.