Mehdi Nasiri, former director of Keyhan newspaper


In 1358, he went to the seminary of Qom to continue his studies and continued teaching courses at the seminary level until 1366. At the same time, he taught literature and logic at the Risalat seminary. In 1365, he started working with Kayhan Press Institute in Qom, and a year later he went to capital to continue the collaboration. As the editor of the articles service of Kayhan newspaper, he continued to work in the press and wrote numerous articles on current political and cultural issues.

In 1367, by Seyyed Mohammad Asghari, the head of Kayhan Institute at the time, and with the approval of Seyyed Mohammad Khatami, the then representative of Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini at Kayhan Institute, he was assigned the editorship of Kayhan newspaper, and in 1370, by the order of Seyyed Ali Khamenei, he was appointed as the responsible editor of Kayhan newspaper. And he worked in this position until 1374. In the same years, with the beginning of Khamenei’s foreign jurisprudence course, he participated in this course for two years.

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