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This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985 Philadelphia police fired thousands of rounds at the MOVE house, city officials approved dropping an explosive device on the roof, the resulting fire was allowed to burn, 11 people—including five children—died, and 61 homes were destroyed. Philadelphia City Council later called it a “brutal attack carried out by the City of Philadelphia on its own citizens” and acknowledged that no individual faced criminal consequences for the bombing. One timeline correction worth preserving for the BHP record: the major previous MOVE-police confrontation was August 8, 1978, about seven years before the bombing, not a year or two earlier. Officer James Ramp was killed, other police and firefighters were wounded, nine MOVE members were later convicted, and television cameras recorded police beating Delbert Africa during his arrest. The 1985 MOVE Commission later specifically criticized city planners for failing to adequately use lessons from that 1978 confrontation. And that actually strengthens the point you’re making: 1985 did not happen without precedent or institutional memory. There had already been a deadly confrontation with MOVE, years of conflict, negotiations and police involvement before Osage Avenue.

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Hamshahri

For other uses, see Hamshahri (disambiguation).

Hamshahri
The front page of vol.1 & no.1
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
OwnerMunicipality of Tehran
FounderGholamhossein Karbaschi
PublisherHamshahri Corp.
Founded15 December 1992
LanguagePersian
HeadquartersTehran, Iran
Circulation540,000 Daily (2015)[1]
Price5,000 Rial
ISSN1735-6385
Websitehamshahrionline.ir

Hamshahri (Persian: همشهری, lit. 'Fellow citizen'; Persian pronunciation: [hæmʃæhˈɾiː]) is a major Iranian national Persian-language newspaper in Tehran (whose municipal government owns the newspaper).

History and profile

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Hamshahri is published by the municipality of Tehran, and founded by Gholamhossein Karbaschi. It is the first coloured daily newspaper in Iran and has over 60 pages of classified advertisement. The newspaper is distributed within the limits of Tehran municipality. It has a daily circulation of over 400,000 copies, which is on par with major US-American daily newspapers such as the San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, and Chicago Tribune.[2] Based on the results of a domestic poll of how citizens of Tehran view television and print media which were released by Iran's Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance Hamshahri was the most read daily in Tehran with 44.1% in March 2014.[3]

Hamshahri Building in Karaj-Tehran road.

In 1997's Iranian presidential election, Hamshahri newspaper, then run by former mayor of Tehran, Gholamhossein Karbaschi, was accused by conservatives of supporting Mohammad Khatami. This was seen as illegal, as papers receiving government subsidy were forbidden to take sides in the elections. The issue eventually led to Karbaschi being put on trial on grounds of embezzlement and was sentenced to time in prison. During Khatami's second term, Tehran press court ruled that the newspaper can only be distributed inside Tehran.

On 28 February 2026, the BBC reported that the Telegram channel of the hard-line Hamshahri daily claimed that several Iranian state-linked news and media outlets had been targeted by cyberattacks following the strikes on Iran by the US and Israel. According to the channel, the websites of IRNA and the semi-official ISNA (Iranian Students' News Agency) were reportedly hacked or experienced access issues.[4]

International Holocaust Cartoon Competition

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Main article: International Holocaust Cartoon Competition

On 6 February 2006, Farid Mortazavi, graphics editor of Hamshahri, announced the International Holocaust Cartoon Competition, a cartoon contest to denounce what it called 'Western hypocrisy on freedom of speech', alleging that "it is impossible in the West to joke upon or even discuss certain topics related to Judaism, such as the Holocaust, and the pretexts for the creation of Israel." The contest was created in response to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy and ended on 1 November 2006 with Abdellah Derkaoui, a Moroccan cartoonist, claiming the first prize.[5] The event was denounced by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the Israeli foreign ministry, Reporters Without Borders, the Anti-Defamation League and other parties.[6][7]

Temporary banning

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The newspaper was temporarily banned from publication on 23–24 November 2009, after it published a picture from a temple of the Baháʼí Faith, which is an unrecognized religion in Iran, where its followers are subject to state sanctioned persecution.[8][9]

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References

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  1. ^ تیراژ واقعی روزنامه‌ها چقدر است؟
  2. ^ "Iran's liberal press tiptoes between "red lines"". Reuters. 11 June 2007.
  3. ^ Arash Karami (16 May 2014). "Tehran poll: 60% believe media has little or no freedom". Al Monitor. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
  4. ^ Soroush Negahdari, "Cyber attacks reported on Iranian state news outlets", BBC Monitoring, BBC News Live, 03:05, 28 February 2026, https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn5ge95q6y7t?post=asset%3Aa55641b3-690e-4bea-8f8f-ae5dbdeb327d#post.
  5. ^ "Foreign Policy In Focus | Holocaust Cartoon Contest". 9 January 2007. Archived from the original on 9 January 2007. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
  6. ^ "Arab Media Review: Anti-Semitism and Other Trends July – December 2006: Iranian Holocaust Cartoon Contest". Anti-Defamation League. 24 January 2007. Archived from the original on 6 August 2010. Retrieved 11 October 2025.
  7. ^ Cesarani, David (11 December 2006). "Deep in Denial". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 13 December 2006.
  8. ^ "Iran Shuts Newspaper For Publishing Baha'i Temple Photo". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 24 November 2009. Retrieved 11 October 2025.
  9. ^ "UPDATE 1-Ban on Iran paper over Baha'i photo lifted-report". Reuters. 24 November 2009. Archived from the original on 9 July 2023. Retrieved 11 October 2025.
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Hamshahri

Hamshahri (Persian: همشهری, lit. 'Fellow citizen'; Persian pronunciation: [hæmʃæhˈɾiː]) is a major Iranian national Persian-language newspaper in Tehran (whose municipal government owns the newspaper).

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Hamshahri Corpus

The Hamshahri Corpus (Persian: پیکره همشهری) is a sizable Persian corpus based on the Iranian newspaper Hamshahri, one of the first online Persian-language newspapers in Iran. It was initially collected and compiled by Ehsan Darrudi at DBRG Group of University of Tehran. Later, a team headed by Abolfazl AleAhmad built on this corpus and created the first Persian text collection suitable for information retrieval evaluation tasks. This corpus was created by crawling the online news articles from the Hamshahri's website and processing the HTML pages to create a standard text corpus for modern information retrieval experiments.

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Hamshahri (disambiguation)

Hamshahri may refer to: Hamshahri, a major national Iranian Persian-language newspaper published by the Municipality of Tehran Hamshahri Corpus, a sizable Persian corpus based on the Iranian newspaper Hamshahri Hamshahri (film), a 1983 Iranian documentary film directed by Abbas Kiarostami

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Hossein Ghorbanzadeh

Hossein Ghorbanzadeh (Persian: حسین قربان‌زاده) is an Iranian journalist and Principlist politician who was General Secretary of Progress and Justice Population of Islamic Iran. He is also editor-in-chief of Hamshahri newspaper. He was previously editor-in-chief of local based Tehran Emrooz newspaper.

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