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 subscribe to this daily newsletter, e-mail [email protected].

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• Masoud Dehnamaki's latest movie "Ekhraji-ha II" [The Disqualified II] about unlikely Iran/Iraq war heroes brings the public to cinemas in record numbers. 
• Ansar News Agency publishes a biography of Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi in four parts: Part I; Part II; Part III; and Part IV. 

• Islamic Guidance Minister Saffar Harandi in an article in Iran should Ahmadinejad "despite the limited risk" not win reelection, "he has been a comet in the sky and will be remembered as such. He has done what he was expected to."
• Mir-Hossein Mousavi says there is no reason to fear opening of the political system.
  • Ansar News, close to Ansar-e Hezbollah vigilante organization, accuses Mir-Hossein Mousavi of being "more liberal than [Mohammad] Khatami." 
  • Mohammad-Bagher Abbasi Samali, Mir-Hossein Mousavi's campaign headquarters chief in Bushehr, resigns. 

• Two Yemeni citizens executed for espionage for the Islamic Republic. 
• Asr-e Iran praises the role of the Revolutionary Guards, claims the U.S. attacks the Guards because the U.S. is aware of the special role of the Guards in Iranian politics. 

• Iranian and U.S. diplomats meet at the Afghanistan Conference in The Hague. 

• Floods in Qom.