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
- Praise singer Mansour Arzi who earlier supported Ahmadinejad now says he follows the line of the Supreme Leader, not Ahmadinejad.
- Mir-Hossein Mousavi invited to Expediency Council meeting?
- Zahra Rahnavard, Mousavi's wife says her husband and Ali Khamenei were unaware of execution of political prisoners during the first decade of the revolution.
- Political activist Amin Movahedi says Zahra Rahnavard's answers resemble those of Ahmadinejad.
- Parliamentarian Mostafa Kavakebian criticizes Ahmadinejad's statements about the executive being above the legislative power.
- Intelligence Minister Hojjat al-Eslam Moslehi:
- "Replacing emphasis on Islam with an emphasis on Iranian nationalist identity is the plan of the enemy."
- "Today, many elites from theological seminaries have become targets of Western intelligence…. As soon as one of our elites from the seminaries travels abroad they will reach out to him in the name of Shi'a studies and impose their thoughts upon them."
- Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, temporary Tehran Friday prayer leader, echoes similar sentiments.
Diplomacy
- Ahmadinejad refutes rumors on negotiations between the Islamic Republic and the United States in New York.
- Ahmadinejad calls President Obama's statements to BBC Persian "amateurish."
- Ali Larijani, speaker of the parliament, reacts to BBC Persian's interview with President Obama: "With the behavior Americans have shown, one must give them medal of the international rogues. They have always tried to deceive and despite sending two of their representatives for negotiations they changed the path..."
Military and Security
- Mohammad Pakpour, Revolutionary Guards Ground Forces chief, says perpetrators of the Mahabad terror bombing "have been killed."
- Tabnak warns readers traveling to Dubai of the threat of foreign spy services recruiting them. A reader asks: "What should we do in order to be recruited during our next visit?"
- Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi says Iran's defense is "not dependent on the S-300 [Air Defense] system."
- Ali Shams, head of the Protection [Herasat] Organization: "During the past 31 blessed years of the life of the Islamic revolution, the United States has used its entire capacity to topple the sacred regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran and it even used seditionists and domestic elements, but they could not do a damned thing."
- According to JARAS, a former member of the Qods Force has sent a letter to the Tehran Military Tribunal demanding reinvestigation of "suspicious death of Seyyed Ayat Mousavi, [former] bodyguard of Qasem Soleymani [Qods Force chief] and [former] chief of staff of Commander Rabi'I (Khani)."
- Plainclothes agents attack the home of martyr Bakeri.
- Former president Mohammad Khatami wonders why Bakeri and Hemmat's comrades in arms don't defend the family of the martyrs.
Economy
- According to Tehran-e Emrooz,43 individuals owe Iranian banks 60 trillion rials.
- Jewelers in Tehran strike against Value Added Tax.
Trade
- "Abiding by the sanctions regime" Kuwait denies fuel to Iranian airliners headed to Europe.
- Fars News reports Germany's exports to Iran have increased over the past six months.
Photos of the Day
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Ahmadinejad speaks to a Yale University class in New York.