Tehran’s Daily Newspaper Review

18 August 2010 | 19:23 Code : 8410 Tehran’s Daily Newspaper Review
Tehran’s newspapers on Tuesday 26th of Mordad, August 17, 2010.
Tehran’s Daily Newspaper Review
According to a Majles [Iranian Parliament] bill ratified by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday, the government is obliged to invest in different sectors of nuclear technology to render the country independent in this branch of science. Moreover, the government is obligated to cooperate with the IAEA only within the framework of the NPT, and not beyond.

Meanwhile in Tehran supervisory bodies are ruling out the government’s decision to reduce working hours for public office staff during the holy month of Ramadan (when Muslims must fast from sunrise to sunset). Every single move by Ahmadinejad and his crew, apparently, is the subject of controversy in Iranian politics today.

Hamshahri

Majles and General Inspection Organization Protest the Government’s Decision: Reducing working hours of public organizations illegal

Significant Increase in Smuggling Cases in Customs

Urmia Lake Turns Crimson

Iran

By Issuing the Majles-Ratified Bill, the President Banned Response to Demands beyond NPT [Requirements]; Iran’s Decision to Build the Third Uranium Enrichment Center

Speaker of Tehran’s City Council: Some municipality projects simply remain on paper

New York Times Predicts: United States on the brink of the second wave of the economic crisis

Jomhouri-ye Eslami

11 Palestinian Groups Speak Against Resumption of Reconciliation Talks [with Israel]

Head of the General Inspection Organization [Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi]: Reduction of working hours during Ramadan is against the law

Due to Defective Rules: Iran’s Saffron Exported in Suitcase

Kayhan

Kayhan’s Special Report: Obama’s fury with [Turkish PM Recep Tayyip] Erdogan; Turkey no longer a US ally

South Korean Students Rally in Support of Iran

[Pro-Ahmadinejad Cleric] Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi: The politically defeated attempt to dominate all with the excuse of ‘unity’

Khabar

Which Tribunal Will Decide for the Soviet Union and Britain?: Demanding WWII Compensation [from the Allied Forces who occupied Iran]; Rhetoric or Reality?

Magician’s New Controversy (1)

Washington Warns Ankara: Do not get too close to Tehran

Resalat

American Weekly Magazine Time: Obama’s calculations about Iran incorrect

With Issuance by the President: Responding to Demands beyond NPT [Requirements] Banned

[Head of Iran’s Organization of Atomic Energy Ali Akbar] Salehi Announces: Construction of a new [uranium] enrichment center inside the country

Shargh

The “Safeguarding Nuclear Achievements” Bill Issued; Iran Continues 20% Uranium Enrichment

Early Retirement Plan Stopped

The Committee for Adjustment of Majles’ Bills Called the Reduction of Working Hours Illegal

Tehran-e Emrooz

Interview with Speaker of the Foreign Ministry Ramin Mehmanparast: We won’t sideline the EU

Legal Compliant Over Reduction of Working Hours; Following the General Inspection Organization, Secretariat of the Committee for Adjustment of Majles’ Bills Calls It Against the Law

Fresh Nuclear News: Salehi Reports the Construction of the Third Uranium Enrichment Facility by the End of the Year

Vatan-e Emrooz

Deputy Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staffs: We will destroy every single spot from where the enemy attacks

White House Duped by Kremlin over the Bushehr Power Plant: Suggestion [by John Bolton] to Attack Bushehr

[Former Head of the Judiciary] Ayatollah Yazdi Also Rejects Simon Gass’ Request for Meeting: Revolutionary clerics say NO to the British Ambassador

(1)   refers to Ali Karimi’s (football star) public drinking of water during Ramadan

Briefing

Hamshahri (citizen) is the official daily newspaper of Tehran’s Municipality. Its general directions in politics, culture and economy are determined by the mayor of Tehran, currently Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf.

Iran is the official organ of the administration.

Jomhuri-ye Eslami (The Islamic Republic) was known as the official organ of the Party of the Islamic Republic, founded in 1979 and disbanded in 1987. Currently, it is an open critique of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s policies and is known to be a mouthpiece of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

Kayhan (Universe) is a hard-line conservative newspaper. Its editor-in-chief –currently Hossein Shari’atmadari- is appointed by Iran’s Supreme Leader. Shari’atmadari’s editorials often spark off controversy and debate inside Iranian political circles.

Khabar (News) is a principlist daily newspaper which adopts a critical stance towards Ahmadinejad’s policies.

Resalat (Mission) belongs to the moderate wing of the principlist camp. Resalat’s best known anlayst is Amir Mohebbian, its political editor.

Tehran-e Emrooz (Tehran Today) is a ‘principlist reformist’ newspaper, connected to Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf.

Shargh (East) is a moderate reformist newspaper. It was the most popular and influential reformist newspaper in its first period of publication which lasted from August 2003 until September 2006.

Vatan-e Emrooz (Motherland Today) -which started its publication in November 2008-, belongs to Mehrdad Bazrpash, the thirty-old pro-Ahmadinejad politician who is also head of Iran’s second largest auto manufacturer company, Saipa. Vatan-e Emrooz is a supporter of the president’s policies.