Iran News Round Up

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by Ali Alfoneh, Ahmad Majidyar and Michael Rubin.  To receive this daily newsletter, please subscribe online.
 
(E) = Article in English

Politics

• Various blogs campaign for Said Jalili as the next president of the Islamic Republic:
  • The Campaign for Urging Said Jalili to Run in 2013:
  • Supporters of Dr. Jalili: 
  • Supporters of the candidacy of Dr. Jalili: 
  • Youth Supporters of the Presidency of Said Jalili: 
• Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani, answering the criticism against his participation at the Expediency Council meetings led by his brother Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, says he has no right to vote at the meetings and that his presence can be compared with Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaei's participation at the cabinet meetings. 

Diplomacy

• Responding to the protests against commemoration of the passing of Grand Ayatollah Khomeini in Afghanistan, Alef News accuses the Afghans of being "ungrateful." 

Nuclear Issue

• Ali-Asghar Soltaniyeh, ambassador to the IAEA: "We will not stop the [uranium] enrichment activity." 
• Hojjat al-Eslam Hashem Hosseini Bushehri, Assembly of Experts member: "Because of economic and social crises, the Westerners [of the 5+1 Group] are trying to kill and buy time in order to improve their current conditions."

Photo of the Day

• Non-Iranian theological students engaged in meditation [e'tekaf].