Hossein Shariatmadari

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Hossein Shariatmadari is the managing editor of Kayhan, the best known conservative Iranian newspaper.

Before the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Shariatmadari was brutally tortured by Iranian Shah's Secret Police or SAVAK. All his fingernails as well as toenails were taken out of him, and it was then when he lost all his teeth in brutal tortures practiced by SAVAK. After the revolution Shariatmadari spent a long time in Hospital and it is reported that he had over 41 fractures in his bones and skull.

In 2006, the British ambassador to Tehran met Shariatmadari and acknowledged the role of Kayhan in Iran and the region.

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