Zan (newspaper)

'Woman') was an Iranian Persian-language weekly newspaper focused on women's rights, published from 1998 until it was banned in 1999.

[1] Zan was founded by Faezeh Hashemi in July 1998, becoming the first-ever women's newspaper in Iran.

[2] It was quickly harassed by the hard-line judiciary, with reporter Camelia Entekhabifard arrested and held for 76 days.

In the fall of 1998, the newspaper published a leaked list of 179 intellectuals, writers, and political activists who were marked for death by the Iranian government.

The list included Nooshabeh Amiri, Ebrahim Nabavi, Mehrangiz Kar, and Camelia Entekhabifard.

A political cartoon published in the newspaper that was critical of Islamic jurispudence.