82 years ago, the first radio organization in Iran started operating. For the first time, the people of Iran heard this sentence “Here is Tehran, the voice of Iran”, from the radio waves of Radio Tehran Center, located somewhere in the middle of Old Shemiran Road, 9 km away from the capital.
Twenty years after a man was first able to transmit sound through radio waves over a wide area of the earth, Radio Iran was launched. One of the first steps in launching this radio was the interest that the affluent classes showed to buy receivers, and the sellers would import radio sets against a deposit. In order to let the low-income groups also access this device the government introduced cheap radio receivers into the market. At that time many announcements were published in newspapers about the opening of Radio Iran, in May 1940. In 1937, the infrastructure of the radio center was built by Ministry of Post, telegraph and telephone. Following this achievement, the “Mind Development Organization” was established. This organization established press commissions, classical kits, lectures, radio shows, and music. Wireless installations in Iran were to be completed with the cooperation of the Russians, but when the Russian engineers left the work of the wireless center half done, Reza Khan, who was also skeptical of the British, and had a strong connection with the Germans, decided to entrust the German engineers with this job.
The German Telephonkan Company took over implementation of this plan. The next government action was to plan production of the radio programs. This plan began a few months after April 1940. The radio was supposed to cover domestic news, foreign news in Arabic, French, Russian, English, and German, and short programs on Iranian history, education, health, and agriculture. This forecast was approved by the Council of Ministers and Reza Shah himself. According to a pre-plan the Radio Center was inaugurated in the wireless transmittal center of Qajar Palace, at 19 hours, on Wednesday 4th Ordibehesht 1319 (1940) in the presence of Mohammad Reza Shah, the then crown prince, Ahmad Matin Daftari, Prime minister and the cabinet members. The Crown Prince read this message for this occasion. Eisa Sadri, one of the writers of those days, and chancellor of Tehran University was selected as the first president of the Radio Organization which comprised just one room, at that time.
What was first broadcast on April 24, 1940, is not explicitly mentioned in the historical resources, but in connection with the first speaker, some say that Ms. Tusi Haeri, the granddaughter of Ayatollah Haeri Mazandarani, was the first radio presenter in Iran, and some say it was Qodsi Rahbari who was speaker of the opening ceremony. Saeed Nafisi, Mohamad Taqi Bahar, Mohammad Hejazi (nicknamed Mati al-Dawlah), Abdul Rahman Faramarzi, Hosseingholi Mosta’an, Abolghasem Payendeh, Abolghasem Etesamzadeh, and Moshfeq Hamedani are the letters that produced national content for this particular media in the early days of radio. At the beginning of its establishment, Radio Tehran, which had two transmitters, one for medium-wave and one for short-wave, used a studio at its wireless office to broadcast its programs. The foundation of Iran’s first radio station dates back to 1924. The army took action in purchasing a complete 4-watt-long wave device for the cities of Tabriz, Mashhad, Kerman, Shiraz and Kermanshah, from a Russian company. The Ministry of War made the initial arrangements for operationalizing a wireless system. In 1924 the wireless system arrived Iran. From 1932, wireless institutions expanded, and eventually, radio was established. On September 24, 1932, the Council of Ministers approved the use of the radio, and regulations were enacted that required the permission of the Ministry of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones to install antennas and use the radio. In 1937, the Ministry of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones prepared the ground for establishing the Radio Center, and in 1938 the Thought Development Organization was established.
The organization had press commissions, classical kits, lectures, radio shows, and music. On April 24, 1940, the first radio transmitter in Iran was opened in a wireless location on the old Shemiran road. In 1940, Radio Tehran’s broadcast was only 8 hours in a day which included news, Iranian music, religious, cultural, geographical, and historical discourse. In 1943, Radio Tehran added another section to the number of its previous units, and in the morning, its program increased by three hours. In 1945, there were also programs for the holidays. In 1948, a transmitter was provided to the radio, and a small studio was built in Arg Square to broadcast the news. In 1957, the name “Radio Tehran” was changed to “Radio Iran,” Later, along with Radio Iran, a second transmitter called Radio Tehran worked. Only music was played at the beginning.
In the Zoroastrian calendar, the fifth day of each month of Sepandarmazd is called Sepand Aramaiti. Sepenta Aramaiti is one of the Zoroastrian lady Izads and Amshaspand. She is the guardian of the earth and, at the same time, the manifestation of obedience, loyalty, and worship.
This word, which in Avestan is “Spenta-Ârmaiti” and is known as the name of the fourth Amshaspand, is divided into two parts “Sepenta” (Spenta) or “Sepand,” meaning clear and holy and “armaiti” (Ârmaiti), is composed of humility and patience, and together the two are pure and holy modesty. In Middle Persian (Pahlavi), this word is “Sepandarmat” (SpandÂrmat) and in Persian is “Sepandarmaz”, “Esfandarmaz”, and “Esfand”.
Sepanta Aramaiti is one of the Zoroastrian goddesses and goddesses called Spante Armiti or Spante Armiti or Sepand Aramaic in Avestan language, in Pahlavi language is called Sepandarmaz or Sepandarmat. In Persian, it is also called Sepandarmad. Amshaspand Sepandarmaz is the guardian and goddess of the green earth and a sign of fertility and childbirth.
In the Pahlavi dictionary, Sepandarmat, or Sepandarmaz, is the name of one of the Amshaspandand, and at the same time, introduced as the name of the 5th day of the month and the 12th month of the year. She is considered to be the very ancient goddess of esfand. It is said that she is accompanied by two other Amshaspands, namely Horvatat (Khordad) and Amoratat (Amordad), and these three groups of Amshaspands form the symmetry of the first three Amshaspands, namely Vahman (Vohuman or Bahman), Ashe Vahishtah (Ordibehesht) and Xshatra Vairya (Shahrivar).
This attribute is manifested in human beings with modesty, love and serving others. Sepandarmazd is the guardian of the earth and women in the world. A land gives everything it has to living beings without expectation, and women like the mother, who is kind and gentle like the earth, love without expecting a loving response. Women and earth have many similarities. Women and earth are symbols of fertility and childbirth; life and existence that flows on is from the earth and from the woman.
