Tehran’s Daily Newspaper Review

16 August 2010 | 00:12 Code : 8376 Tehran’s Daily Newspaper Review

Tehran’s newspapers on Saturday 23rd of Mordad, August 14, 2010.

The Bushehr nuclear power plant at last! Perhaps the primary source of criticism of Tehran’s close relationship with Moscow, the electricity generating power plant will officially commence operations at the end of the summer. Meanwhile, Alla-e-Ddin Boroujerdi, Head of the Majles [Iran’s parliament] Foreign Affairs Committee, has announced that the Vienna Group (US, France and Russia) has accepted the Tehran Declaration as the starting point for negotiations. A nuclear summer for Tehran and its newspapers seems to be well on its way.

Hamshahri

Iranian and Russian Officials Announce: Fuel transfer to Bushehr nuclear power plant begun

Political Aftermath of Pakistan’s Floods

President [Ahmadinejad] Agrees with Fining Electricity Overconsumption

Iran

Head of the Organization of Atomic Energy Speaks of Fuel-Loading the Power Plant This Week: Bushehr nuclear power plant start-up in its last phase

Iran’s U-15 Women’s Football Team Sparks Controversy

Jomhouri-ye Eslami

Arab Leaders’ Extensive Attempts to Launch Compromise Negotiations with the Zionist Regime

Reactions to the President’s Remarks Calling the Majles’ Bills Illegal

Friday Prayers’ Leaders [of Several Cities]: Inappropriate remarks by the officials will harm unity of the country

Kayhan

Tehran’s Friday Prayers’ Preacher [Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati]: Officials and statesmen should seek to serve the people, not other causes

Supreme Leader of the Revolution at the Convention of Quran Reciters: Reciting the Quran must be the prelude to practicing the faith

Russia: Fuel-loading operation of the Bushehr [nuclear] power plant to start on 30^th of Mordad [21^st of August]

Khabar

Ayatollah Jannati Warns Officials: People will take back their vote if you don’t seek to serve them

Deputy Petroleum Minister in an Interview with Khabar: 12 thousand Petroleum [Ministry] executives on the threshold of retirement

The Consequences of a Plan to Make the Capital Less Crowded: Four months of government’s efforts for emigration of civil servants from Tehran

Resalat

News Agencies Quote Head of the Russian Organization of Atomic Energy: Bushehr power plant to launch from the 30^th of Mordad [21^st of August]

Foreign Minister Mottaki: We will make West regret unilateral sanctions

[Head of the Majles’ Foreign Affairs Committee Alla-e-Ddin] Boroujerdi: Vienna Group has accepted the Tehran Declaration

Shargh

Fuel Transferred to the Heart of the Reactor [of Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant]

MPs’ Warning about the Non-Allocation of Two Billion Dollars [for the Metro]; President Is Not the Authority on Legality of Bills

Interview with [Principlist MP] Gholam-Reza Mesbahi Moghaddam: Emam Khomeini’s economic doctrines were not materialized

Tehran-e Emrooz

Principlistic Admonitions to the President: Representatives and political figures call for respect for the law

Commendation for Bazaar’s Notables; Qalibaf: Bazaar is the biggest social capital

Behind the Nullification of Iran Khodro [Iran’s largest auto manufacturing company] Deal: Stock sale from one state-run agency to another is forbidden

Vatan-e Emrooz

Will Occur in Seven Days, after Years of Waiting: Uranium injected to the heart of the [Bushehr nuclear power plant] reactor

Diplomatic Assessment of Tehran Reactor Fuel Swap; [Alla-o-Ddin Boroujerdi] Vienna Group Has Accepted the Tehran Declaration

Leader of the Revolution: Recitation and memorization of the Quran should be the prelude to understanding and following the Quran

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 government.

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.