'' Vatan-e Emrooz '' ( Persian : وطن امروز lit . " Homeland Today " ) is a full-color daily Persian-language newspaper managed by Mehrdad Bazrpash ( an ally of former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and former head of the student Basij organization branch at Sharif University of Technology ) . It began publication just before the Iranian presidential election of 2009 . The newspaper belongs to conservative parties and was a supporter of Ahmadinejad . There are claims that the newspaper is using government-owned companies as sources of financial support . Sports journalist Hossein Javadi was among the victims on 24 March 2015 , of the Germanwings Flight 9525 , which crashed in Prads-Haute-Bléone , Alpes-de-Haute-Provence , France . Javadi traveled with Iranian Sports journalist Milad Hojjatoleslami of the Tasnim News Agency
Germanwings Flight 9525
Germanwings Flight 9525
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