Politics
- Presidential advisor Ramin claims the Judiciary is to blame for the ills of the society, not Ahmadinejad.
- Ahmadinejad defends his government’s track record, says his government’s development schemes are designed in a way to await the emergence of the Imam of the Era.
- Iran attacks Rafsanjani’s warnings against electoral fraud up to next presidential elections.
- Jomhouri-ye Eslami says attacks Ayatollah Rafsanjani are part of a conspiracy.
- Former Acting Interior Minister Seyyed Mehdi Hashemi to replace Davoud Ahmadinejad as chief of the Investigations Bureau of the Presidency.
- Atrianfar, member of Central Committee of Kargozaran technocratic faction, says in case Mohammad Khatami runs for presidency, Abdoullah Nouri would abstain from running.
- Former Tehran mayor Karbaschi, also from Kargozaran, says his list will nominate a candidate regardless of what Khatami does.
- Grand Ayatollahs demand Mashayee’s dismissal.
- Presidential advisor Mashayee says he will never resign from his position as the head of the Cultural Heritage Foundation.
- Adds his statements are in accordance with religious teachings.
- Rumors that Mehdi Kalhor, Ahmadinejad’s media advisor, has resigned because of poor health condition.
Nuclear Issue
- (E) No talk of enrichment suspension in Geneva.
- (E) Turkey claims it is facilitating nuclear talks.
- (E) Moscow slams “US Iranophobic delusion”
Diplomacy
- (E) Ahmadinejad: Colonialists want to cut Sudan into pieces.
- Agah-Sazi publishes an interview with Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon on the occasion of an agreement between Hezbollah and “the Salafists.”
- Emir of Qatar on his way to Tehran.
- Ahmadinejad says Zionism is the spine of the mother of all the world’s corruption.
- (E) Sanitized English version.
- Shahab News ridicules Ahmadinejad’s declaration of readiness to “assume world leadership” given the Islamic Republic’s performance at Olympics.
- According to the analysis of Tabnak’s Mir-Mehrdad Mir-Sanjari, the latest developments in South Ossetia and Caucasus, create the right circumstances have been made for Iran’s regional hegemony.
Military and Security
- An Iranian-made submarine enters the fleet of the Islamic Republic.
- (E) More, in English.
- (E) Iran’s AWACS gets a name.
- Taghipour, head of the Islamic Republic Space Organization, says Iran will send astronauts to space in ten years time.
- Former chief of the Revolutionary Guards General Yahya Rahim Safavi explains the role of the Revolutionary Guards after the end of the Iran-Iraq war.
- Former Ansar-e Hezbollah vigilante organization figure Hossein Allah-Karam who currently serves as military attaché in Zagreb, says Georgia is catalyst for a new Cold War.
Economy
- Central Bank Director-General Mazaheri says the government should consider deleting four zeros from the Iranian currency.
- Commander Bahman Karegar, senior advisor and head of the office of the commander in chief of the Revolutionary Guards, appointed chief of the Foundation of Martyrs and Self-Sacrificers.
Trade
- The Islamic Republic builds a power plant in Tajikistan.
Religion, Culture, and Society
- Critical studies of works of Ibn Sina (Avicenna) on the way.
- Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, to appear alongside Leonardo De Caprio in a movie directed by Ridley Scott, prevented to leave Iran by Ministry of Culture and Islamic Propagation. The ministry argues that Iranian actors and actresses need a license to play in movies outside the territory of the Islamic Republic.
- Mohammad Ali-Abadi, head of the Physical Training Organization of Iran, says denies that Iran has experienced any failure at Olympics.
- Entekhab News ridicules some government supporters’ claims that Iran’s meager achievement in Olympics (only one bronze medal) is the fault of the governments of Rafsanjani and Khatami.
Environment
Photo of the Day
- Rafsanjani speaks to the Quran Society.
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