Ahmad Bourghani

Ahmad Bourghani (* 1959 in Tehran ; † February 2, 2008 there ; Persian احمد بورقانی فراهانی Ahmad Burqani Farahani ) was an Iranian politician and journalist .

Career

Bourghani studied geography at the Shahid Beheschti University in Tehran and graduated with a bachelor's degree. After the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, he became a journalist. During the Iran-Iraq war, he was the head of the newsroom at the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). From 1990 to 1993 he was the IRNA correspondent for UN affairs in New York. In 1993 he returned to Iran.

During his brief period from 1998 as Deputy Minister for Culture in the government of Mohammed Khatami , he ensured freedom of the press for the first time since the 1979 revolution. He also fought successfully against the resistance of traditional people who tried to have critical newspapers banned in court. In February 1999, Bourghani resigned in frustration. Two years later he was elected to the Iranian parliament , in which he continued to pursue his goal of freedom of the press in Iran. He was also chairman of the parliamentary group that campaigned for friendship between Italian and Iranian parliamentarians. He died of a heart attack in a Tehran hospital in 2008.

Web links

• In Memory of Ahmad Bourghani (Persian)
• Ahmad Bourghani, the humanist! ( Memento from June 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Persian)