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{{for|the village in Iran|Eqbal, Iran}}
{{Short description|Defunct Persian daily newspaper}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}
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| maneditor            = Morteza Fallah
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'''''Eqbal''''' ({{langx|fa|اقبال|italic=yes|lit=Luck}}) was a reformist newspaper published in [[Tehran]], Iran. It was shut down in July 2005.
==History and profile==
''Eqbal'' was a reformist daily of which managing editor was Morteza Fallah.<ref name=pay/><ref>{{cite news|title=Iran hardliners pray for victory|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4120758.stm|access-date=13 October 2013|work=BBC|date=22 June 2005|author=Frances Harrison
|location=Tehran}}</ref> It was unofficially affiliated to the leading reformist party, the [[Islamic Iran Participation Front]].<ref name=cpj/><ref>{{cite web|title=Islamic Iran Participation Front|url=http://www.princeton.edu/irandataportal/parties/mosharekat/iipfprofile.pdf|work=Iran Data Portal|access-date=13 October 2013|year=2009}}</ref> Karim Arqandehpour was among senior editors of the paper.<ref>{{cite news|title=Eqbal shut down|url=http://iranian.com/News/2005/June/eqbal.html|access-date=13 October 2013|work=Iranian|date=21 June 2005|author=Nader Davoodi}}</ref> The paper supported [[Mostafa Moin]] in the [[Iranian presidential election, 2005|presidential election]] in 2005.<ref>{{cite news
|title=Iran poll 'marred by dirty tricks'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jun/17/iran.roberttait|access-date=13 October 2013
|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=17 June 2005|author=Robert Tait|location=Tehran}}</ref>
==Closure==
In June 2005, before the presidential election, the paper along with ''[[Aftab Yazd]]'' published the letter of presidential candidate [[Mehdi Karrubi]] to [[Supreme Leader of Iran|Supreme Leader]] [[Ali Khamenei]].<ref name=pay>{{cite news|title=Iranian reformist newspapers Eqbal and Aftab Yazd banned|work=Payvand|date=20 June 2005|url=http://www.payvand.com/news/05/jun/1142.html|access-date=13 October 2013|archive-date=16 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016192030/http://www.payvand.com/news/05/jun/1142.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Reformist Iranian Newspapers Closed|url=http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1059368.html|access-date=13 October 2013
|agency=AFP/Reuters|newspaper=Radio Free Europe|date=20 June 2005}}</ref> Upon this incident both papers were banned for one day by Tehran Public and Revolutionary Court on 20 June.<ref name=pay/><ref>{{cite news|title=Yas-e No Banned Again|access-date=18 October 2013|newspaper=Rooz Online
|url=http://www.roozonline.com/english/news3/newsitem/archive/2009/june/11/article/yas-e-no-banned-again.html|date=11 June 2009}}</ref> In fact, two more dailies, namely ''[[Etemad]]'', and ''[[Hayat-e-No]]'', also published the letter of Karrubi and were banned by the same body.<ref name=cpj>{{cite web|title=Attacks on the Press 2005: Iran|url=http://cpj.org/2006/02/attacks-on-the-press-2005-iran.php|work=Committee to Protect Journalists|access-date=13 October 2013|date=February 2006}}</ref> Following the ban ''Eqbal'' continued until July 2005 when it was closed down by the Iranian judiciary  "for spreading lies and publishing false reports unrelated to Karrubi’s letter."<ref>{{cite web|title=A New Hope? Rouhani Press Reforms Usher in Optimism|url=http://www.iranmediaresearch.org/en/blog/227/13/08/30/1473|work=Iran Media Program and ASL 19
|access-date=13 October 2013|date=30 August 2013}}</ref>
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