Tehran’s Daily Newspaper Review

13 October 2010 | 01:17 Code : 8950 General category
Tehran’s newspapers on Monday, 20th of Mehr, 1389; October 11, 2010.
Tehran’s Daily Newspaper Review
From value-added tax (VAT) to the foreign exchange market, the economy was the top headline of Tehran’s newspapers today. But what is significantly more important, and will most probably spark new round of battles between the Ahmadinejad and Hashemi Rafsanjani camps, is Ayatollah Khamenei’s decree that the endowment of Islamic Azad University –one of the last bastions of Hashemi Rafsanjani against Ahmadinejad and his supporters- is against Islamic jurisprudence (feqh). In order not to fail Hashemi, the Iranian leader has also asked for a revision of the new charter proposed for the university by the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution, composed of mostly pro-Ahmadinejad members.

Hamshahri

National Tax Administration: No discrimination in VAT

From Next Week: Vulnerable industrial units receive subsidy facilities

Iran

Head of the Central Bank [Mohammad-Ali Bahmani] Announces: Tehran rethinks ties with sanction-perpetrating countries

Minister of Telecommunication and Information Technology: Internet speed limits to be abolished in three months

Jomhouri-ye Eslami

Head of Majles’ Committee of Article 44 [of the Constitution on Privatization, Hamid-Reza Fouladgar]: Quasi-governmental entities’ participation in the Fifth [Development] Plan to be restricted

Investigation into Supreme Council of Iranian Expatriates [chaired by Head of Ahmadinejad’s Office Esfandiar Rahim Masha’i] Approved [by Majles]

Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom’s Message: We will welcome the Supreme Leader of the Revolution with open arms [in Qom]

Kayhan

Supreme Leader of the Revolution: Endowment of Islamic Azad University [assets] jurisprudentially and legally incorrect

[Head of the National Tax Administration, Ali] Asgari: VAT law to be enforced without discrimination

Burhanuddin Rabbani Assigned to Negotiations with Taliban

Resalat

Announced in the American Conference of “Post-Election Iran in the Congress”: Iran successful in media warfare

Seyyed Hassan Nasrullah: Ahmadinejad’s rise to power beefed up Iran’s support for Resistance

[Friday Prayers’ Leader Ayatollah Ahmad] Jannati: Killing time in the judiciary one of society’s problems

Shargh

Supreme Leader: Endowment of [Islamic] Azad University [jurisprudentially] incorrect

Hashemi [Rafsanjani] Directs [Ayatollah Mohammad] Yazdi [Attention] to memories of 68 [1989/1990]

US in Response to Iran’s Announcement of Preparedness for Talks with 5+1: Iran set date and location

Tehran-e Emrooz

Mottaki Stays [at Foreign Ministry]

Subsidies Fever in Baharestan [Majles] and Pasteur [Administration]

[Minister of Finance] Shams-od-Din Hosseini Announces: Iran’s economy grows despite sanctions

Vatan-e Emrooz

President in the First Convention of Police Assistants: Breaching the law will harm the entire society

Terror with an American Accent [in Iran’s Kurdistan]

Vice President [of Human Sources and Management Affairs Lotf-o-Llah Forouzandeh] Reveals: Four groups active in undermining [enforcement] of Purposeful Subsidies [Plan]

* Note: Vatan-e Emrooz does not publish on Thursdays due to financial problems.

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.

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 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.