Rahman Hatfi (Persian: رحمان هاتفی; 1941 – 10 July 1983), also known by the nickname Haider Mehrgan, was a journalist and left-wing political activist from Iran.
[5] In February 1979, most of the headlines of Kayhan newspaper were his work, including the famous headline related to the salute to the military system by a group of Imperial Air Force deserters at Alavi School in front of Ruhollah Khomeini, which, according to the testimony of General Abbas Gharabaghi, the chief of staff at that time, broke the backbone of the imperial government.
After publishing this headline, Gharabaghi, demanded that Kayhan either deny it in the next issue or await the newspaper's closure.
This Kayhan headline was, in fact, the initiator of a series of events that led to the uprising of the Air Force deserters and the fall of the regime on February 11, 1979.
[6] He was dismissed from his journalistic position during purges that took place a few months after the revolution in the spring of 1979 at Kayhan newspaper.
One of his former colleagues, Dr. Sadr-al-Din Elahi, writes about him: "Rahman Hatfi was a journalist who had learned the characteristics of a professional job through experience to the highest degree.