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\nAn editorial in “Arman-e Emrouz” newspaper stresses the urgent necessity for reformists to maintain positive relations with the ruling Iranian regime, most importantly with the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, adding that this relationship is particularly vital in light of the charges currently faced by the reformist movement.
\nThe editorial says: “After the events of the 2009 election, reformists\u2019 concerns increased about their relationship with the regime, as after those events they faced many accusations, and became an opposition party as the officials of the fundamentalist lobby closer to the Supreme leader were promoting claims that the reformist lobby had stepped outside the framework of the regime; reformists made efforts in pursuit of rebutting these charges, with figures such as former President Mohammad expressing concerns that some people wanted to create a breach between the reformists and the head of the regime, Ali Khamenei.”
\nThe editorial asserted that the reformists subsequently backed away from their earlier support of some of the policies and opinions that they had adopted previously, asserting their eagerness to interact with the regime and resolve some of the problematic issues in an effort to reduce the gap between them and Khamenei. This could be seen most clearly at the leadership level, said the editorial, adding that although there are differing degree of reformism and divergent opinions on the events of 2009 within the leadership, the reformist leaders have always been close to Khamenei.
\nThe editorial stated that the role formerly played by Hashemi Rafsanjani as a mediator between Khamenei and the reformists could be assumed by Hassan Jahangeri, the first vice-president to Hassan Rouhani. The author stresses, however, that one must recognize the resounding success achieved by the reformists in the 2013 presidential elections and the 2015 parliamentary elections, both of which, he adds, played a major role in reviving the fortunes and strengthening the political role of the reformist lobby, which received widespread active public support. The editorialist voiced hope that the current tensions between the reformist and fundamentalist branches of the regime would ease, with both uniting under one banner, that of \u201cthe Leader\u201d, in order to better cope with the social and economic crises facing the country.
\nThe author avoids any mention of the \u2018National Reconciliation\u2019 initiative recently launched by prominent reformist figure Mohammed Khatami, who is out of favor with the leadership, being considered a leader of sedition, despite the initiative making the exact same call for unity. The initiative was dismissed peremptorily by the Supreme Leader, who said, \u201cThere is no need for national reconciliation\u201d, with the author carefully renaming the same policy as a call for unity under \u201cone banner\u201d in order to avoid any mention of this fact.
\n“Arman-e Emrouz” Newspaper, Monday, March 6, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nAn editorial in Tuesday\u2019s “Iran” newspaper concerns the political climate in Iran in the run-up to the forthcoming 2017 presidential elections, with the editorialist suggesting that the current political climate is unfavourable for the country\u2019s fundamentalists after they changed their previous strategy.
\nAccording to the editorial, “When the fundamentalists realized that Hassan Rouhani would be standing in the election, they despaired and changed their strategy. Under the new strategy their current focus is on trying to reduce the number of votes for Rouhani instead of toppling him.\u201d The writer suggests that two factors are required by the fundamentalists to ensure a poor turnout for the election, which are respectively the absence of any strong competitor for the presidency and the dissemination of rumors to encourage an atmosphere of lethargy and indifference towards the elections.
\nThe editorial states that, according to previous experience, high voter turnout has always worked in the reformists\u2019 favour since the majority of the people support this political tendency, while low voter turnout means fewer votes for reformist candidates and would mean less public support for Rouhani and thus next power for him to shape policy in the next government. It is also possible that this might have a knock-on effect in the transition to the second phase of the elections. Due to these factors, the editorialist writes, the reformists are keen to ensure high voter turnout as a key aspect of ensuring Rouhani\u2019s success.
\nThe editorialist asserts that the fundamentalists opposing Rouhani are not keen to see high voter turnout, adding that due to the absence of consensus between them on fielding a single candidate, they are fearful of losing their influential status in Iranian society. The writer adds that the social changes in Iran in recent years have seen the fundamentalists\u2019 influence dwindling, with their key figures unable to separate themselves from extremists. This, warns the writer is \u201canother reason to keep them away from this [Iranian] society, and destroy their popularity.\u201d
\nThe editorialist concludes by stating that on reviewing all the aforementioned points, one can see that rather than focusing on presenting their own strengths and discussing their electoral program, the fundamentalists are instead campaigning negatively against their rival, Rouhani, ad attempting to deny all that he has achieved for Iran in recent years despite the increasing problems in the country, particularly the high unemployment rates among young people.
\n\u201cIran” Newspaper, Tuesday, March 7, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/arabiangcis.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/Prominent-News-1.png\")
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\nThe vice-chairperson of Iran\u2019s state welfare organization has revealed that 142, 000 people contacted social emergency hotline last year, with 65 percent of these calls made by women. The senior official, Habibollah Massoudi-Farid, also mentioned that over half of the 4,240 people who committed suicide in Iran in 2016 were women, who accounted for 2,800 of the suicides recorded in the country, 66 percent of the total. Massoudi-Farid also talked about the government\u2019s establishment of safe houses for teenage girls running away from home, revealing that over 90 percent of the girls who fled their family homes did so due to domestic problems.
\nSputnik News<\/span><\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/arabiangcis.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/BN-QZ956_2execu_GR_20161130135234.jpg\")
\nAhmad Montazeri, the son of the late Hossein Ali Montazeri, has reportedly refused to hand over his father\u2019s audio recordings concerning the Iranian regime\u2019s 1988 mass executions of political prisoners to the Intelligence Ministry. According to the Kaleme website, Ahmad Montazeri told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the intelligence ministry had ordered his father not to publish the remaining audio files, instructing him to submit them to the ministry, with his appeal against this ruling rejected. Ahmad also quoted his father as saying defiantly that the remaining files wouldn\u2019t be published until it was necessary to do so.
\nThe Special Court for the Clergy had summoned Ahmad Montazeri and sentenced him to imprisonment after he published the controversial audio files in August 2016, although the judiciary subsequently suspended his sentence.
\nDeutsche Welle<\/span><\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/arabiangcis.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/o-IRANIAN-PASSPORT-facebook.jpg\")
\nIranian judiciary spokesperson Gholamhossein Mohseni-Eje\u2019i announced on Sunday that an Iranian-American had been arrested, but refused to name the individual. The regime official accused the unnamed dual-citizen detainee of swindling more than 10 billion Tomans from Iranians by falsely promising to \u201cobtain permanent residency\u201d of the United States for them in return for money.
\nRadio Farda<\/span><\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/arabiangcis.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/hossein-dehghan.jpg\")
\nIran\u2019s Defense Minister says his country \u201cfully supports\u201d Russia\u2019s air operations in Syria, with the two countries\u2019 cooperation at Iran\u2019s Noga air base set to continue for as long as it is necessary. Hossein Dehghan revealed, \u201cWe have provided Russian fighter jets with some facilities at Noga air base, such as fueling or other basic needs\u201d, adding, \u201cThese activities are for limited periods of time.\u201d Last summer, Dehghan implicitly criticized media revelations about Russia\u2019s use of the Noga air base.
\nRadio Farda<\/span><\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/arabiangcis.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/1200px-TASNEE_001.jpg\")
\nSouth African Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson stated on Monday that her country and Iran have laid the basis for cooperating in the energy sector. The announcement followed a meeting between Joemat-Pettersson and the director of Iran\u2019s National Petroleum Company Marzieh Shahedai earlier the same day. The South African Energy Minister also mentioned her meeting earlier with Iran\u2019s Oil Minister, voicing hope for further deals between the two countries during President Rouhani\u2019s upcoming trip to South Africa.
\nBartarinha<\/span><\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/arabiangcis.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/14614.jpg\")
\nIran\u2019s Science Ministry has drafted an operational plan which aims to prevent suicide among Iranian students, according to a ministry official. The ministry staff member, Hamid Yaghoubi, explained that the ministry has helped to set up mental health support teams at more than 110 state and private universities in the country to assist in identifying and resolving students\u2019 concerns. Suicide levels have increased in recent years among Iranian students, especially those studying medical sciences, with Mohammad Reza Farahani, a Student Affairs Deputy of Health Ministry, noting that research shows rising levels of depression at Iranian universities.
\nBBC Persian<\/span><\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/arabiangcis.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/iran-election-2016.jpg\")
\nThe Commander of Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Brigadier-General Mohammad Ali Jafari, stressed that not even a single IRGC member or commander has the right to politically interfere in the country\u2019s elections. The senior official added that \u201cRevolutionary guards have always borne Khomeini\u2019s commandments and Khamenei\u2019s intentions in mind in order to avoid partisanship and political factionalism.\u201d Brig-Gen. Jafari urged all the IRGC\u2019s administrative and supervisory organs to carefully monitor this issue carefully and confront all violators without any exceptions.
\nISNA<\/span><\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/arabiangcis.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/Ebrahim_Raisi_delivers_speech_at_a_rally.jpg\")
\nA group of high-level officials from Shiraz has urged Ebrahim Raisi to run for the upcoming presidential elections in Iran. In a letter addressed to the senior cleric, the officials wrote: \u201cYou know better than us that currently, the cultural, spiritual, social, economic, civil, industrial and scientific circumstances in the country, as well as people\u2019s material and spiritual conditions, are far from the goals and ideals of the Islamic Revolution.\u201d Given the sensitive conditions of the country at the national and international levels, the signatories continued, they were asking Raisi to \u201caccept running for the presidency, and make this historical decision to honor the name of Iran, given your good religious, revolutionary and political records.\u201d
\nRaisi, who is currently the Custodian of Astan Quds Razavi, previously served in various high-level positions in Iran\u2019s judiciary system, including being Attorney-General from 2014 to 2016.
\nTasnim news<\/span><\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/arabiangcis.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/C6TlXKVWQAA6JoK.jpg\")
\nThe Iranian Defense Ministry is set to unveil the first domestically produced \u2018Saba 248\u2019 helicopter shortly. Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan is set to attend the launch of the new aircraft, designed and manufactured by the defense ministry\u2019s \u2018Iran Helicopter Support and Renewal Company\u2019 (IHSRC).
\nJomhouri Eslami<\/span><\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/arabiangcis.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/19.jpg\")
\nFollowing his attendance at a session of the Assembly of Experts, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called the forum one of the pillars of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He added that his government would shortly present a detailed report on the activities undertaken to date to promote the country\u2019s \u2018resistance economy\u2019. \u201cThe path to the resistance economy will continue, since this economy is one of the powers of our regime, and as the leader has said, we must show our powers so that everyone knows how powerful Iran is.\u201d
\nResponding to U.S. officials\u2019 disparaging remarks about a lack of freedom in Iran\u2019s presidential elections, Rouhani said, \u201cElections in Iran are free, healthy and democratic, and those who criticize Iran\u2019s elections must look at their own election and its issues.\u201d Iran\u2019s president urged: \u201cAccording to the constitution and current laws of the country, we have a rigorous executive system, and the strong monitoring system of the Guardian Council supervises the elections.\u201d
\nIRIB news<\/span><\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/arabiangcis.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/Yukiya-Amano-IAEA.jpg\")
\nThe International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has once again approved Iran\u2019s commitments to meeting its obligations to the nuclear agreement with the P5+1 group. Yukiya Amano, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said in his opening statement at the IAEA Board of Governors\u2019 meeting that the IAEA has now been verifying and monitoring Iran\u2019s compliance with the implementation of its obligations under the JCPOA for over a year.
\nAmano further revealed that in January, the IAEA had approved the removal of \u201ccentrifuges and additional infrastructures\u201d from the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, and their transfer to Natanz Nuclear Site, where these items of equipment are stored under permanent IAEA supervision.
\nPress TV<\/span><\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/arabiangcis.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/Iranian-Banks-in-Iran.jpg\")
\nThe CEO of Anzali Free Zone, Reza Masrour, said that Australia, Turkey, and Switzerland are seeking to open banks in the free zone, adding that the Iranian Central Bank has not yet issued the permits necessary to open branches of the Australian CD bank, the Turkish Renault bank, and the Swiss Royal bank there.
\nMasrour added that since the JCPOA, investment in this region has increased in the past year by 54 percent, adding that the free zone had attracted 69 investment projects worth 2.377 billion Tomans, further revealing that the value of exports of goods produced in the Anzali region had increased massively, and rising from $440,000 in 2012 to $49m in 2016.
\nMashregh news<\/span><\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/arabiangcis.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/asma-jahangir.jpg\")
\nAsma Jahangir, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, says Iranians living abroad are scared to talk to UN regarding violation of human rights in Iran, as they are worried about regime retaliation against their family members still in the country. \u201cThose who live abroad are mainly afraid of retaliatory actions against their family members by the Iranian regime,\u201d said Jahangir, adding that the rapporteur\u2019s office\u2019s reviews of information received about human rights violations in Iran show no progress in this regard. Ms. Jahangir said conditions in Iran in areas such as the judiciary system, independent lawyers, freedom of speech, and arbitrary arrests are still worrisome.
\nVOA Persian<\/span><\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/arabiangcis.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/160128-iran-atomic-ali-akbar-salehi-yh-0549p_e2ee6c96626078636838929415e50088.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000.jpg\")
\nThe head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Ali Akbar Salehi, said that while the organization\u2019s intention is to maintain the JCPOA and protect its achievements, this does not mean that it will defer to illegitimate and unacceptable demands, a clear reference to previous statements by U.S. President Donald Trump. However, Salehi added, some individuals in the U.S. establishment, including some of Trump\u2019s cabinet ministers, have declared their adherence to the nuclear deal. \u201cNothing special has happened yet, and Trump\u2019s approach regarding JCPOA was in the form of verbal comments and media propaganda, so we will have no prejudgment in this regard and should act very intelligently,\u201d the AEOI chief concluded.
\nJamejam online<\/span><\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/arabiangcis.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/11.jpg\")
\nIran and Germany have signed a joint venture following their previous cooperation in manufacturing machine parts, reported Tasnim News. Iran\u2019s Crouse Company and Germany\u2019s Continental Corporation, both active in the automotive industry, have created a joint company named CCAC in Iran, based on their agreement. The total investment for this partnership has been announced as more than 18 million Euro, with a 55 percent share given to Iran, and 45
\npercent to Germany.
\nTabnak<\/span><\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/arabiangcis.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/Iranian-Parliament-HR.jpg\")
\nA Sunni faction in Iran\u2019s Parliament has condemned the MP for Mashhad for \u201cinsulting Sunni sanctities\u201d. In a letter addressed to Parliamentary Speaker Ali Larijani, the MPs said that the Mashhad representative, Javad Karimi Ghodousi, had voiced the \u201cworst slanders and insults\u201d against the \u201cRashidun Caliphs and Sunni sanctities\u201d. In a speech delivered following last week\u2019s Friday Prayers, Ghodousi said, \u201cThose who were the source of deviation\u201d were buried next to Prophet Mohammad \u201cso that whenever Muslims hear the Prophet\u2019s name, they will not forget their names.\u201d The controversial MP further asserted that the same thing is now happening in Iran, saying, \u201cThose who were the source of deviation are buried where Imam [Khomeini] was buried.\u201d The Sunni parliamentarians\u2019 letter calls on the Parliament Speaker to \u201ctake appropriate action\u201d against the Mashhad MP.
\nZeitoun Website<\/span><\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/arabiangcis.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/051511ahmadinejad.jpg\")
\nIran\u2019s former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has issued a statement, accusing the current president Hassan Rouhani of providing \u201cfake statistics and information\u201d about the Iranian treasury. In a statement released this weekend, the controversial former president wrote, \u201cSome have Qajar idea and notion about the treasury.\u201d This followed a recent statement by Rouhani, who said, indirectly, that banking relations during Ahmadinejad\u2019s presidency had gone back to the \u201cQajar\u201d period.
\nIn his statement, Ahmadinejad asserted that \u201cfalse accusations\u201d by current officials against his administration were an \u201cexcuse to justify their incorrect decisions, and cover up for their own weaknesses, imprudence, and inefficiency.\u201d
\nRadio Farda<\/span><\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/arabiangcis.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/Iran1.jpg\")
\nMohammad Mehdi Tondgooyan, deputy head of architecture and urbanism commission in Tehran City Council, said that Tehran Beautification Organization signs \u201castronomical contracts with 7-8 people\u201d and the money \u201cgoes to 30 to 40 particular companies.\u201d Meanwhile, chairman of Beautification Organization has announced that \u201cdue to network security issues, they cannot give access to members of Tehran City Council.\u201d
\nTondgooyan added, \u201cBeautification Organization had not announced its revenue as 150bn tomans revenue, of which only 30bn tomans have been deposited to municipality\u2019s coffers.\u201d He said as soon as they ask for transparency, they are accused of politicization, but \u201csigning astronomical contracts with certain people is definitely a kind of corruption.\u201d
\nZeitoun\u00a0Website<\/span><\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/arabiangcis.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/150903-larijani-editorial.jpg\")
\nSpeaker of the parliament, Ali Larijani confirms the existence of \u201ccold\u201d atmosphere in presidential elections and attributes it Rouhani\u2019s government running for the 2nd term. Iran newspaper, publishing parts of its interview with Ali Larijani, wrote that at the time when fundamentalists are focusing all their efforts on mobilizing their powers and reach an agreement over a candidate to compete with Hassan Rouhani in 12th presidential elections, Ali Larijani says: \u201cI don\u2019t have any close relationship with fundamentalists to know what they are doing. So, I don\u2019t know anything about their policies.\u201d
\nAli Larijani started distancing himself from fundamentalists since last year when he ran for parliament\u2019s elections, independent from them.
\nISNA<\/span><\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/arabiangcis.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/amir-khojaste.jpg\")
\nMember of Parliament\u2019s Councils Commission announced that the parliament is investigating a case of 50 thousand billion Toman embezzlement by a private bank. Hamadan MP Amir Khojasteh said about the Iranian parliament\u2019s fight with economic and bureaucratic corruption that it is now involved with the issue of Teachers\u2019 Investment Fund, and so far, 30 people from big economic networks who had looted banks such as Sarmayeh Bank and Day Bank have been identified. Khojasteh added that currently 3 thousand billion tomans have been restored to Teachers\u2019 Investment Fund, and \u201cwe are trying hard to return 12 thousand billion tomans to the treasury as well.\u201d
\nArman daily<\/span><\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/arabiangcis.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/31-25.jpg\")
\nHead of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran announced unveiling new nuclear achievements on 9 April 2017. Ali Akbar Salehi emphasized that Iran has made good progress in nuclear technology and industry, saying that enrichment, production of heavy water, and discovery and extraction in the nuclear industry are rapidly going on. He continued that previously Iran\u2019s uranium reserve (yellow cake) was 550 tons, to which 384 tons were added during past year. Salehi urged that currently two new power plants are being constructed in Iran, and one super modern nuclear hospital is also at the final stages of financing.
\nJam-e-jam online<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nMajid Takht-Ravanchi, deputy foreign minister for European and American Affairs, said that Iran\u2019s frozen money in Luxemburg goes back to the period before the nuclear negotiations, and Iran\u2019s Central Bank\u2019s lawyers are currently counseling on how to access that money. He added that the money belonged to Iran\u2019s Central Bank, and was in Europe at the time of sanctions, which was why Iran did not have any access to it. Takht-Ravanchi continued that during that time and even before the negotiations, \u201cpeople who were against the Islamic Republic of Iran tried to extend U.S. ratifications to outside the U.S.\u201d
\nISNA<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nFatemeh Hashemi said, \u201ceven though my father was 82 years old, he was healthier than me. There are ambiguities [about his death] for ourselves.\u201d Rafsanjani\u2019s daughter, who was talking about the commemoration ceremony for her father in Alameh Tabatabi\u2019s University, added that Rafsanjani always acted as if nothing had happened, even under the worst circumstances. As for not holding a Q&A session at Alameh Tabatabi\u2019s University, she said, \u201cour society is not ready to hear the truth.\u201d
\nKhabar Online<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nTwo months after President Rouhani\u2019s remarks about handing over Babak Zanjani to Intelligence Ministry, Kazem Palizdar, head of the office for coordinating fights with economic corruptions, said that 3 of Zanjani\u2019s collaborators, but not he himself, are given to Ministry of Intelligence. Kazem Palizdar added that according to reports, the process of investigating these suspects\u2019 cases to return people\u2019s assets to the treasury is going on well, and soon positive, desirable outcomes will be achieved.
\nBabak Zanjani is an Iranian billionaire who has been sentenced to death for corruption, after accusations that he withheld billions in oil revenue. He denies allegations.
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