Cultural Budget of Special Institutions

The newspaper Shargh has reported with the headline "Special Without Oversight" about "the cultural budget of special institutions in Table 17 of the 2017 budget bill": "These days, representatives from both the left and right are calling for the removal and reorganization of Table 17. Last year, not only was there no removal, but the approved final figure increased. Now, despite the exit of the Saadi Foundation with a budget of seven billion in 2016, the name of this foundation appears with a budget of 10 billion tomans in Table 7. Nevertheless, there is no longer any trace of the one billion and 700 million tomans allocated to the 'Religious Inquiry Center' and the five billion tomans budget for 'supporting high-quality films.' These days, representatives emphasize more than anything on oversight and review of the funds allocated to these institutions." According to this newspaper, "the Planning and Budget Commission has resolved this time to determine the fate of Table 17, and now the option of removal is on the table. So far, based on the internal resolution of the commission, the names of 50 cultural institutions have been removed from Table 17. However, shortly after, Nasrollah Pejmanfar reported in a separate interview that the cultural budget of institutions in Table 17 cannot be removed." Amirreza Vaez Ashtiani, a principlist figure, emphasized in an interview with the Arman newspaper that "principlists want to eliminate Rouhani," while Mohsen Safaei Farahani, a reformist figure, told this newspaper: "Disqualifying Rouhani has negative consequences for the country; no event in the elections is out of the question." The Iran newspaper, close to the government, in its front page titled "Four Responses Just for Information," reported that "following the positions of judicial officials regarding the Babak Zanjani case and criticism of what was called the government's negligence in tracking the assets of this oil defendant, the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, and Oil responded to these statements in separate announcements." This newspaper wrote that Iran's Foreign Ministry announced in a statement that "it has never been asked to directly pursue the matter, and therefore no information regarding the content of Babak Zanjani's case has been provided to the Foreign Ministry for follow-up." According to "the announcement from the Ministry of Intelligence in the prevention section, intervening and disrupting factors in the handling of the case (Babak Zanjani) have been identified, including infiltrators inside the prison." The Iran newspaper also quoted Ali Asghar Hindi, head of the Oil Ministry's claims committee, stating that Babak Zanjani's debt, including late payment damages, amounts to 3 billion and 800 million dollars, and less than 600 million dollars of this amount has been paid through asset transfers. Additionally, the Central Bank has announced that "experts and managers from various sectors of the bank, including foreign exchange, international, information technology, and legal, have diligently responded accurately and quickly to all inquiries from the judiciary and have provided all necessary documents to clarify this case further." This newspaper reminded that the latest round of verbal conflict between the judiciary and the government "began when the President announced last week in a cabinet meeting that he had asked the judiciary to hand over the Babak Zanjani case to the Ministry of Intelligence, but this request was not accepted." However, in response, Sadegh Larijani, the head of the judiciary, criticized the government for what he called negligence in pursuing this case, and even "some media outlets reported that Babak Zanjani had made various claims, including helping Rouhani's election campaign in 2013," but "Akbar Turkan, Rouhani's advisor, and Nobakht, the government spokesman, denied these claims." The Etemad newspaper in its front page on Saturday titled "Decoding Zanjani's Darkroom" wrote: "Three ministries, through separate statements, opened other dimensions of the oil defendant's case." This newspaper pointed out that "the oil defendant remains the main player in today's Iranian politics, and although Babak Zanjani does not have a physical presence among political disputes, his name and actions become such a central topic of discussions that they can easily lead to verbal wars between the heads of the branches of power." To the extent that "the latest remarks of the head of the judiciary, in which he raised objections to the three government ministries regarding the handling of the oil case, were met with separate announcements from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, and Oil." Etemad wrote that these "announcements, all containing detailed information about the actions taken, indicate that they have not withheld any assistance from the judiciary so far, regardless of any possible reaction from judicial officials at this moment." Simultaneously with the publication of the responses from the Ministries of Oil, Intelligence, and Foreign Affairs to the judiciary, Kayhan, in its Saturday issue, quoted Ahmad Khatami, the Friday prayer leader of Tehran, stating: "The enemy emphasizes the destruction of institutions, especially the judiciary, in the twelfth elections." This same newspaper, in a note titled "There is No Other Way," spoke of "the enemy's important plan to undermine the authority of security institutions and agencies," stating that "with this perspective, the secret of the ongoing attacks on the IRGC becomes clear. The secret of undermining the essence and function of the Guardian Council becomes clear, and now it becomes clear that the judiciary should not have any credibility or value in the eyes of the people and should lack the slightest positive image in public opinion." The Vatan-e-Emruz newspaper, close to the Front of Steadfastness, also dedicated its front page to a new accusation against Rouhani's government, writing: "The government twists the figures of income and expenditure of targeted subsidies with contradictory statistics." This newspaper quoted Hamidreza Hajibabaei, the head of the Joint Commission of the Sixth Development Plan in the Islamic Consultative Assembly and former Minister of Education in the previous government, stating: "About 80 trillion tomans are received from the people based on the law, and only about 35 trillion tomans of that is paid to the people, and the difference does not return to the treasury." The Ebtekar newspaper, in a report titled "Women on the Way to Pasteur," wrote: "Unlike countries where women reach high positions, including prime minister and presidency, in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the situation is different; to date, no woman has been able to attain a position such as the presidency, and very few women have managed to hold positions such as minister." This newspaper reminded that "in recent years, the issue of women's participation in presidential elections has been raised several times, but each time, on the one hand, prominent women in the political world, knowing the specific interpretation of the law regarding women's participation in these elections, have not registered, and others have faced disqualification." Ebtekar also wrote that "the tenth parliamentary elections and the record-breaking number of women elected to the Islamic Consultative Assembly were a wake-up call for the Guardian Council to reconsider the characteristics of presidential candidates in the constitution and to review the interpretation of political man," and now "in a situation where some politicians are completely opposed to women's participation in politics, it seems that some parties are inclined to introduce a female candidate." The Arman newspaper also reported in its Saturday issue on the possibility of introducing "Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi" as a candidate from the principlist faction or at least a faction of this group, quoting Hossein Naqavi Hosseini, a principlist representative in the tenth parliament, stating: "Regarding the candidacy of women for the presidential elections, the issue of political man and the opinion of the Guardian Council is raised; if these issues are resolved, what is wrong with a woman being a candidate?" The Arman newspaper also wrote: "Since among principlist women, there is no one who possesses the necessary characteristics for candidacy in the presidential elections, it seems that this faction intends to introduce Marzieh Dastjerdi, the health minister in Ahmadinejad's government, as their candidate in the 2017 presidential elections if, according to Abbasali Kadkhodai, the spokesman for the Guardian Council, the issue of political man in the Guardian Council is resolved." The Farhikhtegan newspaper, while examining the "resting of the forests" plan, wrote: "The destruction of 40 million 300-year-old beech trees in Iran's forests can be called a major national and international disaster; a disaster caused by people who recklessly used the wood of trees for their own profit, and now the Forests Organization has taken action to prevent further destruction by implementing the resting of the forests plan after five years of proposing it with the agreement of the cabinet and representatives of parliament at the national level." According to this newspaper, "Last week, Nasser Maqdesi, the deputy head of the Forests, Rangelands, and Watershed Management Organization, emphasized in a press conference that in the next 10 years, all levels of northern forests will stop commercial and industrial logging," adding: "There must be structural, executive, policy-making, and managerial reconstruction throughout the entire body of the Hyrcanian forests." Farhikhtegan also noted that "another noteworthy point is that the officials of the Forests Organization, in addition to overseeing the cessation of logging in the forests, are seeking to realize a plan called forest assessment in the 10-year plan. Forest assessment is one of the actions that will determine what percentage of the two million hectares of Hyrcanian forests should be absolutely protected and which areas will be allocated for other uses." Journalist Masoud Bastani, in a letter titled "We Have All Become Grave Sleepers" in the Law newspaper, addressed Asghar Farhadi, referring to this filmmaker's letter following the publication of a report by the Shahrvand newspaper about "grave sleeping," wrote: "Mr. Farhadi, you asked: When did we become like this? And I know that the creator of the films 'The Salesman' and 'About Elly' understood earlier than others that the humiliation and repeated forgetfulness of the people of a land is the product of the grave sleeping of their shared spirit." The columnist of the Law newspaper emphasized that "in this grave sleeping, some cultural figures are also to blame," writing: "You know better than I do that the freezing winter nights of Tehran are the nights of the shivering dogs of drug addicts on Shoosh and Molavi streets! The nights of the wandering daughters fleeing from their paternal homes! The nights of confusion and homelessness of beaten and mournful prostitutes in the southern neighborhoods! And most importantly, the nights of clicking and liking of a generation that has long lost the boundaries of the ugly and beautiful in its life! 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