The latest circulation figures published by Namafar, a cultural data collection company in Iran indicate a decline in readership, which the company attributes to the people’s distrust of the press.
The highest daily circulation figure in the chart above belongs to Hamshahri, a daily newspaper that used to sell over 500,000 copies every day about ten years ago which fell to around 300,000 after the 2019 protests and later events.
The figures date back to the year 2021 and the actual readership of all newspapers is estimated to be lower.
Number two in the top 10 list is Jam-e Jam, whose readership has fallen from a similar figure of half a million to a modest 75,000 during the past ten years.
Next is the government-owned Iran Newspaper with 45,000 readers, followed by Khabar Varzeshi, a major sports daily (36,000), Iran’s leading economic daily Donya-ye Eqtesad (29,000), reformist dailies Sharq (7,800), Etemad (7,000), Aftab-e Yazd (7,000 – now shut down for funding problems), the IRGC-linked Javan newspaper (7,000) and centrist Arman Melli (6,000).
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