Mohammad-Hossein Khoshvaght
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Mohammad-Hossein Khoshvaght (Template:Langx) was head of the press and foreign journalists department at Iran's Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, under reformist President Mohammad Khatami.
Background
A relative by marriage to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, he is a former Rome bureau chief of the Islamic Republic News Agency, fluent in Italian and English. He came into news during the alleged murder of Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi by official security forces, as he claimed he was repeatedly forced by Saeed Mortazavi to declare false information to obstruct the investigation into Kazemi’s death.[1][2]
References and notes
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- ↑ Lost in translation Feb. 1, 2004
- ↑ Reporters Without Borders: Iran - 2003 Annual report Script error: No such module "webarchive".
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