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.
 
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Politics

  • According to Nasim Online, Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaei's withdrawal from a number of public positions is due to diabetes.

Diplomacy

Military and Security

  • Video of Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, Revolutionary Guards Air and Space commander, presenting the captured United States drone on national television
    • Fars News calls upon the Foreign Ministry to demand compensation from the United States for violating Iranian airspace.
    • Ala al-Din Boroujerdi urges the Foreign Ministry to call upon the Organization of Islamic Countries and the Non-Aligned Movement to condemn "the United States' violation of Iranian airspace."
    • [E] Iran's Ambassador to the United Nations Mohammad Khazaee in letters to the head of the world body and president of the UN Security Council voiced strong protest at the recent violation of the Iranian airspace by the US, describing the move as "provocative".
  • Hojjat al-Eslam Kazem Sediqi, temporary Tehran Friday prayer leader: "These explosions [recent terrorist attacks against Shi’a in Afghanistan] take place in countries where the Americans are present and the occupiers have freedom of action. Therefore, these actions are not without their direct participation. We consider the claimants of human rights responsible for such bloodshed..."
  • Ahmadinejad presents a law increasing the punishment for Iranian citizens visiting "Occupied Palestine" to the parliament.
  • The wife of Ali-Reza Asgari, former deputy defense minister who disappeared in Istanbul on February 7, 2007, says Raouf Sheibani, Iran’s ambassador to Syria, is investigating her husband's disappearance.

Trade

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