Newsstand (Trip to Tehran - Part 2)

Despite the state pressure, newspapers are still relatively free as long as they don't touch taboos such as Khamenei and judiciary.

But it doesn't mean they are poplar as they once were during the first years of Khatami. Their circulation even reach to almost 6 million everyday in total. But now many of them have less than 150,000 circulation which is absolutely disastrous, given the population of literate in Iran (over 40 million).

However, there are many economic newspapers emerging these days in Iran; a sign that economy is doing not too bad for whatever reason -- most likely for the sudden hike in oil revenue.