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Hossein Shariatmadari is the managing editor of Kayhan, the best known conservative Iranian newspaper.

Before the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Shariatmadari was allegedly tortured by Iranian Shah's Police or SAVAK (which later mophed into Islamic Republic's SAVAMA).

Mr. Hossein Shariatmadari is said to have been directly involved in torturing and interogation of political prisoners. His paper, once the foremost for the truth and probably the highest circulation in the country, has suffered tremendously because of false and completely biased reporting.

In 2006, the British ambassador to Tehran met Shariatmadari and acknowledged the role of Kayhan in Iran and the region.

A strong supporter of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he has been described as being "a close confidant of Iran’s supreme leader" Ali Khamenei, and as having "links" to Iran's intelligence services.^[1] On February 12, 2009, Hossein Shariatmadari, editor-in-chief of hardliner newspaper Kayhan, wrote a controversial article suggesting former President Muhammad Khatami might be assassinated if he ran again for president, as had ex-president of Pakistan's Binazir Bhutto.^[2][3]

He and his paper are against 2009 after election protests in Iran. And also ignoring all of it's aspects.For example, while the mayor of Tehran said three million people had marched in the silent protest following the stolen election, according to Keyhan no protests took place anywhere in Iran that week.^[4]

After the controversial 2009 election and weeks of protest, Shariatmadari wrote an editorial in Kayhan alleging that defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi was trying to "escape punishment for murdering innocent people, holding riots, cooperating with foreigners and acting as America's fifth column inside the country" and called for Mousavi and former reformist President Mohammad Khatami to be tried in court for "horrible crimes and treason."^[5]

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From Wikiquote

Hossein Shariatmadari is the editor-in-chief of Kayhan in the Islamic Republic of Iran. He is also a representative of Imam Khamenei.

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• In my opinion, negotiating with America is like shaking hands with Satan, and dancing with wolves, because the Americans are interested in negotiations for negotiations' sake....By negotiating with us, they are trying to intimidate the world of Islam and the Islamic movements, saying: "Even Islamic Iran, which you follow and which serves as your model, eventually had no choice but to get along with us.
  • Editor-in-Chief of Kayhan Iranian Daily: Negotiating with America is Like Shaking Hands with Satan and Dancing with Wolves May 2007

• During the entire period of occupation of Afghanistan, we were the country that provided the most support to the Afghans.
  • Interview with Hossein Shariatmadari. PBS Frontline (Aug. 1, 2007).

External links

• `The Sunni vs. Shi'ite Scheme Is Meaningless' Interview with Shariatmadari in December 2006
• Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei Associate: Bahrain Part Of Iran

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Video clips

• Editor-in-Chief of Kayhan Iranian Daily: Negotiating with America is Like Shaking Hands with Satan and Dancing with Wolves May 2007