Abolfazl Fateh

Abolfazl Fateh (Persian: ابوالفضل فاتح; born 1966) is an Iranian journalist, medical doctor, and political activist, known as the founder of the state-run Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA).

Abolfazl Fateh
BornNovember 1966 (1966-11) (age 56)
Shahrud, Iran
Alma materTehran University of Medical Sciences (MD)
University of Oxford (PhD)
Occupation(s)Journalist, political advisor, medical doctor
Known forFounder of the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA)

Education

Abolfazl Fateh was born in November 1966. He graduated from the Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 1996, achieving the degree of Medical Doctor, and obtained his PhD from the University of Oxford with a thesis entitled "'he Power of News Production".

Career

Fateh was the director of Islamic Students Association at Tehran University from 1991 to 1996. On November 4, 1999, he founded the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) to report on news from Iranian universities that later covered a variety of national and international topics.[1][2][3] While taking a reformist view of events, ISNA has remained politically independent. It has, however, maintained its loyalty to the former president and includes a section devoted to "Khatami's perspectives".[4] Fateh was ISNA's managing director until his resignation on 10 October 2005.

Abolfazl Fateh was taken to the court on several occasions over the agency's reports.[4] He was beaten by riot police while supporting his correspondents to report student demonstration in June 2003.[5]

Abolfazl Fateh served as one of Mir-Hossein Mousavi's advisors during the 2009 Iranian presidential election. He was banned from leaving Iran because of his role in the campaign, though the ban was later lifted.[6]

Abolfazl Fateh established a news agency model (ISNA) in Iran with the motto "one student, one correspondent" and "one idea, one news".

Politically, Fateh is aligned with Iranian reformists on the religious left wing, loyal to Ayatollah Khomeini's political framework. He has been politically-active as a moderate reformist on a platform of reforming the system based on the Iranian Constitution.

Fateh has worked as a researcher at the Center for Strategic Studies in the UK, and is based in Manchester, England.[7][8]

See also

References
  1. Engber, Daniel. "What's With the Iranian Students News Agency?".
  2. The Foregrounding of Homelessness in Iran by a Progressive Media
  3. "EA WorldView - Archives: January 2010".
  4. "GUIDE TO IRANIAN MEDIA AND BROADCASTS TO IRAN - MARCH 2007", BBC Monitoring research, 27 Mar 07.
  5. "'Standing up to this regime takes courage'". the Guardian. 2003-06-17. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  6. The Latest from Iran (1 January): Mousavi's Resolution?
  7. Fateh, Abolfazl (2013-03-01). "The Foregrounding of Homelessness in Iran by a Progressive Media". Iranian Studies. 46 (2): 149–164. doi:10.1080/00210862.2012.758469. ISSN 0021-0862. S2CID 144744178.
  8. "Abolfazl FATEH - Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)". beta.companieshouse.gov.uk. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
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