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Mohammad-Hossein Khoshvaght (Persian: محمدحسین خوشوقت) 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.
References and notes
- Lost in translation Feb. 1, 2004
- Reporters Without Borders: Iran - 2003 Annual report Archived 2007-01-01 at the Wayback Machine
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