● Birthplace: Tehran
● Died: 29 March 2017 in Tehran
Biography
He was from the famous Towfigh family and was one of the editors of Tawfigh Satire Magazine. He was a homonymous and grandson of Hossein Tofigh, writer, satirist, and founder of Towfigh Magazine. With his brothers Hassan and Abbas, from the middle of 1951 to 1971, the operators and editors of the third edition of the magazine were Towfigh humor. This week, the letter of comics and Ironic, was published in nearly half a century. Hossein Towfigh, the last editor of the weekly letter was learned. After the arrest of the magazine in 1971, he had no other press activity, but it has been quoted a few years in the thinking of reviving this publication again. He had an independent, nationalist, and non-dependency personality. Late Towfigh was a lover of his homeland and, despite the possibility of living in the United States, has never already found a living place. He was always smiling with lips and full of metaphors and beautiful tips. The house of Towfigh had chosen to criticize the state, the language of humor, and this poem was the slogan of the Towfigh magazine, who: Chow is a bitter right, with a sweet tongue/fable, Ansan who Donnie. The beginning of the weekly activity of comics, ironic and critically Towfigh, was found by Hossein Towfigh, the Great House of Towfigh, from 1923 to 1971. After his death in 1939, he stopped publishing and then his son, Mohammad Ali Towfigh, was released for a course of its editor, but with the coup d’état of August 28, 1953, all its possessions went to the spoil, and with the closure of Mohammad Ali Towfigh’s office, was not published for five years. Later on, the grandchildren of Hossein Towfigh’s great sister, in the last days 1957 of the year, released the first number of the third period Towfigh. The Towfigh magazine was independent and had no side and no affiliation, but it was so Hoveyda that the prime Minister had repeatedly tried to allurement the agents of this publication and repeated the request against him, but they resisted them against this subject.
Editorial publication by signing: Kaka Towfigh and other ironic subjects were assigned to social status such as unemployment, poverty and injustice and the like, and the very strong and sweet criticism of the ruling board and representatives of the competence of the National and Senate council were signs. The influence of this publication was followed by the regime’s reactions and the Towfigh was subjected to censorship under severe pressure and was accompanied by repeated bans. Hossein Towfigh The latest editor in the Journal said: Every morning before the print, the agents of censorship entered the printing with the ladder and saw Towfigh pages and censored. These pressures continued, and finally, the Towfigh magazine was seized in 1971 under pressure of Amir Abbas Hoveyda, the Prime minister. Tofiq, Thursdays were released and Hadi Khorsandi, Kioumars Saberi Foumani and Emran Salahi were the last of its authors.
