Ettala’at supported Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi during his reign.One of the editors-in-chief was Hassan Sayyed Javadi, younger brother of Ali Sayyed Javadi, another journalist with Kayhan and Ahmed Sayyed Javadi, sometime interior minister of the Islamic government. In the late 1960s the publisher of the paper was Abbas Massoudi who served as the vice president of the persian Senate.