Budget Costs of Scholarships in a Candidate's Election Headquarters

"The operation to liberate Mosul" is the main headline or one of the main headlines of Tehran's newspapers on Tuesday. The government-aligned Iran newspaper noted that "the major operation to liberate Mosul has begun," stating: "The determination and will of the Iraqi government to seriously start military operations in Mosul indicate a larger resolve to confront the phenomenon of terrorism within the country's borders." The Shargh newspaper dedicated its front page to this operation, stating: "Mosul, which is considered the last major stronghold of ISIS in Iraq, was captured by this terrorist group in June 2014. Now, after several months of planning, the operation to reclaim the city of Mosul from ISIS began in the early hours of Monday, although two days earlier, coalition fighter jets led by the United States had extensively bombed ISIS positions in the city of Mosul." The Shargh newspaper reported that Mahmoud Sadeghi, a member of the Hope faction in the tenth parliament, announced that "an investigation into the scholarship case has begun." Mehdi Ghadimi, in his report for this newspaper, pointed out that "the issue of illegal scholarships from the previous government has once again become controversial, and now signs of a connection between the budget of these unresolved scholarships and some election headquarters are becoming apparent." He wrote: "After Reza Faraji Dana was impeached and the ninth parliament did not give a vote of confidence to his replacement options, and ultimately Mohammad Farhadi took the position of Minister of Science, the issue of illegal scholarships and their follow-up was also put on hold, but the start of the tenth parliament has once again initiated the pursuit of this strange case." Mahmoud Sadeghi, who had promised to pursue the remaining open cases from the previous government, including the scholarship case, before the tenth parliament began, has now fulfilled this promise. He stated that "four months into the life of the tenth parliament, despite the clear evidence of violations, it is strange that no action is taken to punish the offenders, and he intends to begin an investigation into the scholarship case and (pursue) the eventual fate of its offenders." This newspaper noted that "the latest controversies surrounding this strange case began just a few days ago and this time also originated from Mahmoud Sadeghi's Twitter account." It wrote: "While some defenders of the previous government's scholarships raised the issue of a student's suicide at Kashan University, attributing the cause to the termination of this student's scholarship and forming a committee to follow up on this matter, Mahmoud Sadeghi stated: 'While Mr. Sadati Nejad claims that the non-payment of the scholarship amount to the student was one of the main reasons for the suicide, this amount was paid by the Ministry of Science to Kashan University, and the university delayed in this regard, and interestingly, at the time in question, that is, in 2009, the presidency of Kashan University was held by Mr. Sadati Nejad himself.'" According to Mahmoud Sadeghi, "In 2009, during Mr. (Javad) Sadati Nejad's presidency at Kashan University, two billion tomans were paid by the Ministry of Science for the purpose of paying scholarships to students at this university, but in addition to the fact that this amount was not spent on scholarships, it is unclear for what purpose it was spent." After the publication of this part of Mahmoud Sadeghi's remarks on Twitter and the ambiguity regarding the fate of that two billion tomans, this representative from Tehran in the tenth parliament announced on Twitter: "According to existing documents, part of this money was converted into cash cards and spent in Jalili's headquarters." Shargh, while publishing Mahmoud Sadeghi's statements about the use of part of the scholarship money in "Saeed Jalili's election headquarters," refrained from printing the name of this previous presidential candidate and current representative of the Supreme Leader in the Supreme National Security Council, but wrote: "It remains to be seen whether the fate of the scholarship funds that were paid to an election headquarters will be clarified in the investigation into the scholarship case or will be archived like the bill for transparency in election financing." "The end of gasoline imports" is the headline of the Etemad newspaper reflecting the statements of Bijan Zanganeh, the Minister of Oil, who said: "Next year we will no longer import gasoline." This newspaper wrote: "When sanctions were lifted and oil began to be produced at full capacity, it reached a point where it provided the means for doping the country's economic growth. Now the Ministry of Oil has revealed another ace to show that it remains the most active and influential sector of the country's economy," and Bijan Zanganeh, who hosted Es'hagh Jahangiri, the first vice president, at the second strategic congress of oil and energy on Tuesday, firmly announced that the government has no plans for gasoline imports next year." Etemad reminded that "previously Abbas Kazemi, the deputy oil minister, had said that with the commissioning of the Persian Gulf refinery, we would become self-sufficient in gasoline production." According to existing statistics, the average gasoline consumption in the country during normal months is 70 million and 500 thousand liters per day, of which 62 million and 500 thousand liters are produced daily in the country, and the rest is supplied through imports, with Etemad reporting the amount of gasoline imports as "around eight million liters per day." Shargh reported that "Gholamhossein Karbaschi, the former mayor of Tehran, proposed that the whistleblower of the astronomical property documents be released from prison and then Abbas Salimi Ne'min debate with Yashar Soltani about the documents." According to this newspaper, "Gholamhossein Karbaschi made this proposal in response to Abbas Salimi Ne'min's proposal for a debate with him about the astronomical properties," since "Abbas Salimi Ne'min, an analyst of the principlist faction, had previously invited Karbaschi to a debate about the astronomical properties." The Iran newspaper noted that "Abulfazl Ghanavati has recently been mentioned for the second time as a controversial member of the Tehran City Council," writing: "Just a few weeks ago, his name was revealed in the list of recipients of astronomical properties from the Tehran municipality, and the latest troublesome incident regarding him dates back to just a few days ago when a news site quoted him in the council, bringing his name back into the spotlight. The second case, although not unrelated to the first issue, has been denied and rejected by Ghanavati himself." According to this newspaper, Abulfazl Ghanavati, defending "Masoumeh Abad," who also happened to be named in the list of astronomical properties, said: "They have come to slander a free person and a hero. Do you know what freedom means? Whoever published these words should have their sister held by ISIS for a week to understand that they have come to ruin everyone's reputation; who has given anything?" The Kayhan and Javan newspapers have launched a new round of attacks on the press and social media. The Kayhan newspaper, which is published under the supervision of the Supreme Leader's representative, described the publications and newspapers close to reformists, including the Kargozaran Sazandegi Party, as "press charlatanism" and accused the weekly Seda of "insulting the sacred," writing: "The insults of the Seda publication from the Ham-Mihan media group, the organ of the Kargozaran Sazandegi Party, given the past behavior of this publication group, which immediately reappeared under another name after being shut down, indicates that we must deal with the root cause; as long as these publications are supported by parties like Kargozaran, which have a clear history of economic and security corruption, a few days' suspension of insulting publications will not solve the problem." This newspaper referred to a satire published in the Seda weekly and mentioned publications whose editorial board is led by Mohammad Ghouchani, stating that "the name of Kargozaran Sazandegi is as intertwined with economic corruption as it is with active participation in the 2009 sedition; Mohammad Ghouchani and Atyarianfar were prominent members of Kargozaran Sazandegi who were arrested and tried during the 2009 sedition." The Javan newspaper, close to the Revolutionary Guards, published a report about a "conference on the occupation of virtual espionage nests" held in Tehran on Tuesday, stating: "Virtual networks become the breeding ground for the revolution's regression." This newspaper emphasized that "these days, the buying and selling of audience or fame in the virtual space occurs while the enemy is reorganizing its forces to succeed in a hybrid war against our country," writing: "Besides the prevalence and attractiveness of the virtual space, the feeling of unity with the global village created by the diplomacy of smiles and the shifting of trust and smiles to the enemy has also contributed to the increase in the number of young people in the country playing on the enemy's field."