Moayed-ol Mamalek Fekri Ershad ( Persian: مؤیدالممالک فکری ارشاد; 1869–1916) was an Iranian journalist and playwright. He was born in Tehran and studied in Dar ul-Funun. In the time of constitutional movement in Iran he was a supporter of this movement and when the Persian Constitutional Revolution happened, he was 37. In this time he was the editor of Sobhe Sadegh, a political and revolutionary newspaper. He was arrested in 1908 after the coup d'état of Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar. He was also a playwright and wrote several plays in which he criticized politicians of his time. ^[1]

Some of his plays

• Old Statesmen, New Statesmen
• The Story of a Journalist
• Love in the Old Age

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