A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by Ali Alfoneh and Ahmad Majidyar. To receive this daily newsletter, please subscribe online.
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Politics
- Reports on imprisonment of Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani and Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani:
- Farda News depicts Mehdi Hashemi’s return to Iran before the 2013 presidential election as a "suspicious scenario."
- Saeid Qassemi, Hezbollah activist and vigilante leader, says return and arrest of Mehdi Hashemi and imprisonment of Faezeh Hashemi is "a project related to the [2013 presidential] election." Qassemi also says the project aims at "exonerating the seditionists [from guilt]." Link upon request.
- Akbar Ganji, author of books which implicated Rafsanjani in the serial killings of Iranian dissidents and intellectuals: "Rafsanjani is no longer the red eminence."
- Rafsanjani embraces his son Mehdi just before his arrest. Video:
- BBC Persian journalist Bahman Kalbasi asked Ahmadinejad about the parliamentary inquiry into the cost and size of his UNGA entourage. "Goh khordan, [they have eaten fecal matter]" retorted Ahmadinejad. Video.
Military and Security
- Tabnak slams the United States Treasury's "attempts to link the oil industry with the Revolutionary Guards."
- Amir Mousavi, former Defense Ministry adviser, says confrontation with the West is "unavoidable."
- The Revolutionary Guards displays the Shahed 129 drone.
- Diplomasi-ye Irani condemns removal of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization from the U.S. list of terrorist organizations.
Media
- Farda News' investigation shows that the Islamic Republic has filtered Gmail.
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