[3] In 2000, he won political columnist of the year prize at the Iranian Press Festival, but was jailed shortly after for his writings.

[1] Ghouchani then served as the editor-in-chief of Etemad-e Melli, the official organ of National Trust Party led by Mehdi Karroubi.

[6] He was also in charge of the women's lifestyle magazine Irandokht, another publication close to Karroubi, until its office was raided in December 2009.

[9] With ease of pressure on media as Hassan Rouhani took office, Ghouchani published a pre-issue of Ham-Mihan on 26 October 2013, but the judicial system allegedly prevented republication of the newspaper.

He also stated "Journalism is our job, our passion and our life, something that we don’t want to lose, unless we reach the point where we cannot work honorably".