Middle East
Iran’s liberal media continue decline under Rouhani
It has been more than 35 years since the Islamic revolution culminated with the slogan "freedom and republicanism" and 17 years since Iran s newspapers were recognized for the first time as the fourth pillar of civil society and as the columns of democracy under then-president Mohammad Khatami. Today, the Islamic Republic s newspapers are experiencing conditions as bad as those during after the 1907 - 1907 Constitutional Revolution and the 1953 coup against then-prime minister Mohammad Mossadeq.