Tehran's Daily Newspaper Review
Hamshahri
Chaos in the Most Profitable Ministry: Pity for the Oil Ministry!
Judiciary Speaker [Mohseni Ezhe’i] Criticizes the Government: Multi-billion debtors receive loans anew
Iran
Underlined in Foreign Ministers Meeting: Iran-China trade exchange to surpass 30 billion dollars
Chief Basij Commander [Gen. Mohammad-Reza Naghdi] Stresses: Basij and Sepah [still] support Ahmadinejad
[Esfandiar] Mashaei: Denying the Zionist Regime’s entity a constituent of Iran’s foreign policy
Jomhouri-ye Eslami
Majles’ Speaker [Ali Larijani] Criticizes Officials’ Neglect of Mal-Veiledness
80 Cases of Economic Corruption under Investigation
Kayhan
Wave of Islamic Awakening Reaches Kuwait: Friday of Rage in Kuwait, Sabah household terrified
Prosecutor General [Ezhe’i]: “Astray Current’s” problems beyond economic corruption
Gathering in Palestine Square: Tehran public servants call for an end to crimes against the Bahraini nation
Resalat
Batoul Joneydi, Mother of Four Martyrs, Accounts Supreme Leadership’s Surprise Visit [to Her House]: Agha said there is a great [divine] reward with every hardship
Ayatollah Javadi Amoli: The “Reappearance Is Imminent” (1) CD is deviation [from orthodox religious beliefs] and [an instance of] superstition
Shargh
Seyyed Hassan Khomeini Will Pray over Nasser Hejazi’s Body Tomorrow: Hejazi leaves, the legend remains
Judiciary Speaker: Economic corruption of the “Astray Current” under investigation
Hamas Envoy to Tehran [Khalid Qaddoumi]: Technocrat cabinet to be formed in Palestine
Tehran-e Emrooz
Head of the Assembly of Experts [Ayatollah Mahdavi Kani] Warns the “Astray Current”
Psychologists Warn about the Recent Trend [of Wearing Makeup] Among Young Males: New abnormality among some youth
Vatan-e Emrooz
Vatan-e Emrooz Reports on the Latest State of Rents in the Current Year: Rent black market
Esteqlal Sans Legend
(1) Reappearance Is Imminent is a controversial CD released a few weeks ago. The producers had attempted to imply and superimpose Shi’a narratives on the signs of the reappearance of the 12th Imam, Mahdi, and the developments in the Ahmadinejad’s era. The documentary claims Ahmadinejad to be Shu’aib ibn Saleh, a messianic figure rising on the threshold of Imam Mahdi’s uprising.
* Note: Vatan-e Emrooz does not publish on Thursdays.
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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.
Jomhouri-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.
Resalat (Mission) belongs to the moderate wing of the principlist camp. Resalat’s best known analyst is Amir Mohebbian, its political editor.
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.
Tehran-e Emrooz (Tehran Today) is a ‘principlist reformist’ newspaper, connected to Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf.
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.