Gooya is a Persian-language website

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 started by Belgium

Belgium

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-based journalist Farshad Bayan in 1998.

At that time, there were a few Iran-related websites and most Persian media did not have online editions. Manually prepared electronic copies of popular Persian journals (prepared by Bayan), such as the magazine Payam-e Emrooz

Payam-e Emrooz

Before being shut down in 2000 by the Iranian Judiciary System, Payam-e Emrooz was the most professional monthly magazine with news and analyses in the areas of politics, society, culture, and economy. Its existence was a symbol of the "freedom of press" in a country with its own specific political...

, were a popular feature of Gooya. With the wave of Iranian websites and weblogs in the following years, their links appeared on Gooya and the website remained one of the most popular Persian websites.

Gooya started its own independent news section, Gooya News, a few years later. Analyses by journalists and political figures, with political opinions ranging from far left to far right, are an exclusive feature of Gooya News among Persian websites.

Gooya

• Gooya
• Gooya News
• My Gooya
• Farshad Bayan's interview with BBC Persian (in Persian)
• Farshad Bayan's interview with ITNA (in Persian)
• Farshad Bayan's interview with Yas-e No Newspaper (in Persian)
• Gooya News introduces itself