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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Politics

  • Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, Ahmadinejad's chief of staff, predicts: "In the next 50 years man will create 'a human being' which will engage in all acts of real humans such as reproduction and giving birth, love and poetry. Mashaei's predictions result in a storm of responses to him from angry readers who demand to know why the chief of staff of the president absolutely must make statements about Noah the prophet, the future of Islam and now robots.
  • The Judiciary orders the Law Enforcement Forces to arrest Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani.
  • Rafsanjani releases the latest volume of his memoirs covering the end of the Iran/Iraq war with the title Defa'e va Siyasat [Defense and Politics].
  • Kayhan editor Shariatmadari "discloses" that Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi as a foreign/Zionist agent.

Diplomacy

Military and Security

Nuclear Issue

Economy

  • 61 million Iranians have applied for monthly 209,470 rial cash handouts to replace subsidies.
  • Oil Minister Masoud Mir-Kazemi announces plans to establish a private bank called Bank-e Khosousi-ye San'at-e Naft [The Petroleum Industry's Private Bank].

Religion, Society and Culture

Human Rights

  • The Revolutionary Tribunal condemns reformist theoreticians Tajzadeh, Soleymani and Mirdamadi to long prison terms and prohibits them to engage in political and press activities for the next ten years.
  • The Special Clergy Court defrocks Hojjat al-Eslam Ahmad-Reza Ahmadpour and condemns him to one year of imprisonment on charges of acting against national security.

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