Tehran’s Daily Newspaper Review
Hamshahri
Supreme Leader in Meeting with Instructors, Scholars and Elite Clerical Students of the Seminaries: Self-belief and self-confidence a necessity for sustention of seminaries’ scholarly identity
Ahmadinejad: Iran’s interpretation of Islam is our basis for action
To Be Inaugurated with Capital [Tehran] Municipality’s Efforts: 34 New Mosques for Tehran Citizens
Iran
Supreme Leader of the Revolution in 4-Hour Meeting and Discussion with Instructors, Scholars and Elite Clerical Students of the Qom Seminary: Free thinking should be fostered at all levels of the seminary
[Minister of Culture, Seyyed Mohammad] Hosseini at the Int’l Fair of Press and News Agencies: The highest number of press licenses issued by the Ninth and Tenth administrations [of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]
Jomhouri-ye Eslami
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Meeting with a Group of Instructors, Scholars and Elite Clerical Students of the Qom Seminary: [Qom] Seminary should develop humanities based on Islamic worldview and thought
Ayatollah Safi [Golpayegani, religious leader] in a Message to the National Convention of Shi’a Association of Germany: Terrorism and violence rejected by the Shi’a School
Karzai: American officials pocket 1.5 billion dollars of Afghanistan’s budget every year
Kayhan
Stated in Meeting with Instructors, Scholars and Elite Clerical Students of the Qom Seminary: Free thinking and generation of novel ideas, Leadership’s demand from Seminary elites
Hashemi Rafsanjani: No matches for the Leader of Revolution
President at the National Conference of ‘Soft War’: Planning based on liberal theories a great mistake
Khabar
Supreme Leader of the Revolution States: Opposition to suppression of ideas, the beautiful tradition of seminaries
A Glance at a Flagrant Social Abnormality: Street women [=prostitutes], a problem finally acknowledged
Happened in Shahrivar [23 August-22 September]: 45 million liters of Iranian gasoline exported
Resalat
Ayatollah Khamenei in Meeting with Elite Clerical Students of the Qom Seminary: Free thinking a common tradition of seminaries
Supreme Leader of the Revolution in Meeting with Foreign Clerics of the Qom Seminary: Islamic Republic at the peak of political power
Fetneh-Perpetrators Awaiting Purposeful Subsidies
Shargh
Larijani Advised to Resign from Nomination [for Majles’ Principlist Faction]
Secretary of Human Rights Bureau of the Judiciary [Mohammad-Javad Larijani] Announces: Zahra Kazemi’s (1) case open
President at Soft War Conference: Iran’s interpretation of Islam the basis for action
Tehran-e Emrooz
Supreme Leader of the Revolution at the Gathering of Non-Iranian Clerics: Iran at the Peak of Political Power
Political and Cultural Figures Analyzed in Tehran University Conference [on Soft War]: Satellites and subsidies, major battlefields of soft war
Vatan-e Emrooz
Leader of Revolution Explicated in Meeting with Instructors, Scholars and Elite Clerical Students of the Qom Seminary: Academic charter of the seminary
Underscoring Theory Development in Humanities, Ahmadinejad: Planning should be localized
Vice President [Mohammad-Reza Rahimi] Stresses in Meeting with Armenian PM: Tehran-Yerevan level of cooperation to be upgraded
* Note: Khabar and Vatan-e Emrooz do not publish on Thursdays.
(1) Zahra Kazemi was an Iranian-Canadian photographer who died in custody in an Iranian prison in 2003. Her death sparked controversy both domestically and internationally, and strained ties between Iran and Canada.
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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.
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.