The newspaper was founded by
Mohammad Beheshti in 1979 following the
Iranian Revolution as a self-proclaimed "voice of the Islamic Revolution". Mohammad Shojaeian took over as the new managing director of the
Tehran Times and the MNA in September 2019. On April 12, 2020, Shojaeian appointed Ali A. Jenabzadeh as the
editor-in-chief of the
Tehran Times daily newspaper. In August 2023,
Tehran Times published a
United States Department of State memo informing U.S. Special Envoy for Iran
Rob Malley of his security clearance suspension. The publication prompted calls by
Republicans in the
U.S. House of Representatives and
U.S. Senate for a probe into how the newspaper acquired the information. ==Editorial position==