(Thanks to Ali Alfoneh for his compilation)

Politics

  • Reformist theoretician Mohammad-Reza Tajik explains the reform movement’s strategy after their latest defeat to the hardliners: “One must be patient, the reform process is slow, as opposed to revolutions…We must alter the culture of the society before we can change the political culture of Iran.”
  • General Secretary of Kargozaran technocratic party Gholam-Hossein Karbaschi says sometimes it is easier to be in opposition, and democracy is within reach in Iran.
  • Morteza Rasoulipour publishes extracts from the memoirs of the late Hajj Ahmad Shahab, one of the founding members of the Fedayin-e Eslam terrorist group, who details the assassination of both historian and religious innovator Ahmad Kasravi and of prime minister of Iran Abdol-Hossein Hazhir.
  • Hojjat al-Eslam Jalilzadeh, representative of the Supreme Leader in the Tehran Basij, while speaking to Basij commanders of ministries and other branches of the administration: “I stress this: Not a single reformist candidate has the right to enter the parliament… The reformists are those cart drivers who after expressions of support from Bush will throw themselves into the arms of the U.S. You have seen this again and again. Where is Pir-Moazzen, spokesman of the reformist faction in the parliament today? Where are Mohajerani and Kadivar, the ideologues of the reformist movement?”
  • Mehr News Agency publishes nation-wide results for second round.
  • Raja News publishes both nation-wide results along with the political tendencies of the newly elected parliamentarians.
  • Final results for Tehran constituencies.
  • According to Asr-e Iran, the Grand Principalist Alliance has won the second round of parliamentary elections in Tehran.
  • According to the ouster minister of interior, 70 percent of the members of the Iranian parliament belong to the Grand Principalist Alliance.
  • Iran-e Emrooz claims the only reformist candidate elected in Tehran is Ali-Reza Mahjoub.
  • Asr-e Iran publishes some statistical information on the second round of parliamentary elections.
  • Claims election participation has been as low as 26 percent.
  • Azad News Agency quotes the ousted minister of interior, Pour-Mohammadi as saying election participation in the second round has been 26 percent higher than the first round.
  • Senior presidential advisor Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi praises the ousted minister of interior for the orderly conduct of elections in the Islamic Republic.
  • Pour-Mohammadi, ousted minister of interior, says he still has not received an executive order from the Iranian president relieving him of his responsibilities.
  • E’temad ridicules the Iranian president’s election promises of “bringing the oil money to the tables of the Iranians.”
  • In an study of the political elites of the Islamic Republic, Shahrvand-e Emrooz discusses intermarriages between elite groups in Iran:
  • Mohammad Mohmmadi-Nik, also known as Rey-Shahri, married the 9 year-old daughter of Ayatollah Meshkini.
  • Ayatollah Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s daughters Fa’ezeh and Fatemeh are married to the sons of Grand Ayatollah Khomeini’s representative in the Revolutionary Guards.
  • Seyyed Ahmad Khomeini, son of the founder of the Islamic Republic, and Seyyed Mohammad Khatami, son of the Ayatollah Rouhollah Khatami, married two sisters who are related to Seyyed Mohammad Sadr, which makes the Khomeinis, Sadrs and Khatamis members of a large clerical clan.
  • It is also through these marriages that the former president Seyyed Mohammad Khatami is related to the late Lebanese Shi’a leader Mousa Sadr.
  • Shahrvand Emrooz claims that the father of Fatemeh Tabatabayee, wife of the late Ahmad Khomeini, supported Khatami’s bid for presidency in 1997.
  • In another bond between the Khatami’s and the Khomeini’s, Seyyed Mohammad-Reza Khatami, the other son of Ayatollah Rouhollah Khatami married Zahra Eshraghi, grand daughter of Grand Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini.
  • Zahra Eshraghi is the daughter of Ayatollah Shahab al-Din Eshraghi, son in law of Rouhollah Khomeini.
  • In the latest parliamentary elections, the Council of Guardians rejected the candidacy of the son of Ayatollah Eshraghi.
  • Morteza Mottahari’s daughter married the son of Ayatollah Mirza-Hashem Amoli, also known as Ali Larijani.
  • Ali Lariani’s brother, Mohammad-Javad Larijani’s political fortunes declined ten years ago.
  • Sadegh Larijani is another member of the Larijani clan, who resides in the Council of Guardians.
  • Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is married to the daughter of Gholam-Ali Haddad Adel.
  • Another son of the Supreme Leader, Masoud Khamenei, is married to the daughter of Ayatollah Kharrazi and sister of former minister of foreign affairs, Sadegh and Kamal Kharrazi.
  • The third son of the Supreme Leader, Mostafa Khamenei is married to the daughter of Ayatollah Khoshvaght.
  • A daughter of the Supreme Leader is married to the son of Hojjat al-Eslam Mohammadi Golpayegani, the head of the office of the Supreme Leader.
  • The son of Sadegh Kharrazi is married to the daughter of Mohammad-Reza Khatami.
  • Seyyed Hassan Khomeini is married to the daughter of Ayatollah Mousavi Bojourdi.
  • His brother, Seyyed Yaser Khomeini is married to the daughter of Seyyed Mohammad Sadr.
  • Son of Ayatollah Mousavi Ardebili is married to the daughter of Ayatollah Seyyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi.

Religion, Culture, and Society

  • Alef News Agency attacks Azad University whose administration enjoys the support of former president Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
  • Family of the late Mahmoud Beheshti boycotts the unveiling ceremony of a statue of the leading revolutionary figure.
  • Ali Sa’idi, representative of the Supreme Leader in the Revolutionary Guard, says the enemy insults Islam out of fear of the spread of religion, and accuses Iranian religious innovator Abdol-Karim Soroush of “cooperating with the enemy.”

Human Rights and Labor

  • Two killed in Ilam during unrest because of protests against what is perceived as rigged elections.
  • Ayatollah Sane’i: “Prior to the return of the Imam of Era, may God hasten his coming, stoning of women is not permissible.”
  • On the third day of the sit-ins at Sahand University in Tabriz, students stage a hunger strike in protest against the leadership of the university.

Economy

Trade

Military and Security

  • Abdolmajid Mo’adikhah discusses some secrets about the religious terrorist group Forghan [Furqan], active in the early years of the revolution. More.
  • Comments of Jamal Esfahani, head of the revolutionary committees responsible for the imprisoned members of Forghan.

Diplomacy

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