Tehran's Daily Newspaper Review

05 May 2011 | 05:25 Code : 12490 Tehran’s Daily Newspaper Review
Tehran's newspapers on Wednesday, 14th of Ordibehesht, 1390; May 04, 2011.
Tehran's Daily Newspaper Review
The big news today was the announcement by the speaker of the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the existence of a 1 billion dollar debtor to the banking system. The news was especially embraced by Kayhan, the self-proclaimed vanguard of the fight against economic corruption.
 

Hamshahri
 

Gas Bills to Be Issued Monthly; Gas Prices to Rise Again
 

Iran
 

President in the Opening Ceremony of Tehran International Book Fair: Weapons turn into pens in near future

Speaker of Anti-Corruption Bureau [Ali Aqa-Mohammadi] Discloses: 1000-Billion Toman [approx. 1 billion USD] debtor [to state-run banking system]

Fear of Al-Qaeda Retaliation in US and Europe
 

Jomhouri-ye Eslami
 

Head of Supreme Court [Ayatollah Mohseni Gorgani]: Cosmetic, pre-ordered adjudication worthless

[Late Marja’ Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani;] The Marja’ Who Wanted to Ban Governmental Aid to Seminaries

Speaker of Anti-Corruption Bureau: 1000-Billion Toman debtor [to state-run banking system]
 

Kayhan
 

65 Major Debtors Referred to Judiciary: 1000,000,000,000 Tomans, debt of a big seed (1)

Death to US, Death to Israel Chanted across Yemen

Iran-Egypt Relations Revival Speeds Up: FM Deputy visits Cairo
 

Resalat
 

Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi in Convention of Vali-ye Faqih Representatives in Sepah: State decrees binding

President in Meeting with Workers from Across the Country: Purposeful Subsidies should continue forcefully
 

Shargh
 

Speaker of Anti-Corruption Bureau Announces: 6000 Billion Tomans, debt of 65 citizens to banks

Liquid Subsidies Cut Less? Subsidies’ Big Challenge in ’90 [2011-2012]
 

Tehran-e Emrooz
 

Speaker of the Anti-Corruption Bureau Reveals New Info about Cases of Bank Debtors: Who is the 1000-billion Toman debtor?

3 Political and Religious Figures Underline the Necessity of Adherence to Velayat: A day for unprecedented political advice
 

Vatan-e Emrooz
 

More Ambiguities in US-Made 9/11 Project: Why was Bin Laden’s corpse dropped into the sea?

Speaker of Anti-Corruption Bureau: 1000-Billion Toman debtor!

Anti-Cleric Current Initiated in Your Government: Re-reading [Mohsen] Rezaei’s important letter to Hashemi (2)

* Note: Khabar and Vatan-e Emrooz do not publish on Thursdays.

Trouble with understanding some terms? Check our Glossary of Iranian Political Terms.

(1)   “Big seed” (daneh dorosht in Persian) is a pejorative term mostly used by Kayhan to describe economically corrupt tycoons believed to have accumulated wealth through graft.

(2)   Written in the early 1990s during the command of Mohsen Rezae’i of the Revolutionary Guards and Hashemi Rafsanjani’s presidency [which brought into the government a wave of technocrat-ism]
 

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.