"English-language financial daily debuts in Iran"
From Al Monitor:
On Sept. 7, the first issue of the Financial Tribune,
a new English-language daily, hit Tehran's newsstands. At 12 pages, the
paper costs 2,000 tomans (about 60 cents) — almost twice as much as
privately owned Persian-language newspapers. The newspaper mostly covers
economic and financial issues, but also news related to the nuclear negotiations.
Some see the publication of a new English-language Reformist
financial newspaper as signaling a relative increase in press freedom
under President Hassan Rouhani. However, inside Iran, it also means that
some are hopeful on reaching a comprehensive nuclear deal with the
West, securing the removal of sanctions and witnessing a revival of
Iran’s economic relations with both its neighbors and the West.
English-language newspapers in Iran are not common; the Financial
Tribune is the country's first and only English-language economics
newspaper. Currently, four other English-language newspapers are
published in Iran: Tehran Times, which operates under the mayor’s office; Kayhan International, a Persian-language edition of Kayhan operating under the supreme leader’s office; Iran Daily, which operates under the umbrella of the administration’s Islamic Republic News Agency; and Iran News, which reflects of the views of Iran’s Foreign Ministry....MORE
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