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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Torn Khomeini photos fuel tension between regime, opposition; Iran tests Sejjil II missile; Supreme Leader pledges visiting Hamas leader unwavering support; Iran reportedly arrests ‘Western spy’ seeking information on new enrichment facility; General David Petraeus accuses Iran of aiding Taliban 

 

Politics

  • Kayhan predicts the future:
    • "Some analysts with whom Kayhan held conversations believe that these radical actions [burning of Khomeini’s and Khamenei's pictures] are part of a pre-planned scenario. These analysts believe that since Student Day, the heads of the discord have concluded that they can no longer mobilize the masses, even small parts of them to achieve their goals, and their social capital is limited to a small number of counter revolutionaries..."
    • "An informed source tells Kayhan: 'There is documentation that the movement of discord intends to - through great insults to the sacred issues [of the regime]...to force the pious forces to lose their self-control, so in the end, either one of the grandees of this movement [Mousavi or Karrubi] is arrested, or the security forces enter the university, leading to unrest on the scale of 1999.'"
  • Iran warns that the demand of reformist politicians to demonstrate in reaction to the "insult" against the photo of Grand Ayatollah Khomeini could cause further unrest.

  • Parliamentary Speaker Ali Larijani urges personalities of the regime "not to disclose those issues which harm the country. That is treason."

  • Rafsanjani cancels his speech at the House of [Political] Parties.
  • According to Abrar,more than 100 parliamentarians demand resignation of Industry Minister Aliakbar Mehrabian.

Diplomacy

Military and Security

Trade

Nuclear Issue

  • [E] Iran reportedly arrested a Western spy seeking to gather information on its new nuclear enrichment facility in Fordo.

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