He worked in Ettelaat newspaper before the Iranian Revolution. After President Khatami’s election in 1997, Safsari worked in other newspapers such as Entekhab, Hayat-e No, Sobh-e Emrouz, Aftab-e Emrouz, and Azad.[167] Safsari recounted that on the day Saeed Hajjarian, the deputy-chair of the Tehran City Council, was shot in an assassination attempt, MOI agents came to the Sobh-e Emrouz office and prevented the distribution of the newspaper’s special edition about the assassination attempt.[168]