Deputy of Rouhani: The Government Opposes Gender Segregation

The newspaper Arman dedicated the front page of its Saturday issue to Mohammad Javad Zarif and John Kerry, the foreign ministers of Iran and the United States, stating: "While critics of the nuclear agreement are still reminiscing about the 15-minute walk of Zarif and Kerry in the streets of Geneva and interpreting it, the two foreign ministers discussed and consulted with each other again in Munich, Germany, after a brief meeting in Davos, Switzerland." The newspaper Etemad also headlined its Saturday issue with "Munich; A Winter Chance for Negotiations," writing: "A little over a month has passed since the beginning of the new Gregorian year, but Iran's nuclear negotiations with the 1+5 have entered a fast lane. The goal is to reach the deadline in March." However, the newspaper Javan described the possibility of reaching a political agreement as "the possibility of agreement in the propaganda section of the negotiations," while Kayhan attacked the diplomacy of Hassan Rouhani's government and the Islamic Republic's nuclear negotiating team, stating: "The agreement on the generalities is the same broad hat of Geneva." The newspaper Iran reported that Ali Jannati, the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, during his visit to Isfahan, responded to the recent controversy regarding the release of a music album featuring male and female singers with "clear language" and mentioned "the role of an organized movement to create distrust among officials regarding the government's cultural policies." The newspaper Shahrvand reported that "the gas bills for the first month of this winter have shocked many subscribers." The newspaper Shargh quoted Shahindokht Molaverdi, the Deputy President of the Islamic Republic for Women and Family Affairs, stating: "The government does not agree with gender segregation in the name of health purification." The newspaper Shargh also published a report on "conflicting news about the death of a Tehran resident due to influenza," stating that "some news sources in Iran reported the death of a Tehran resident due to influenza," including the Salamat News site, which reported that "recently, the news of the outbreak of the second wave of influenza in the country was published by the Ministry of Health's Center for Infectious Diseases, and now the news of the death of one of the influenza patients - M.T., a 35-year-old married man with one child - is circulating in a hospital in Tehran." According to this newspaper, Mohammad Mehdi Gouya, head of the Center for Management of Infectious Diseases, told Salamat News about the outbreak of swine influenza in the country: "This type of influenza is no longer referred to by this name and is considered a type of seasonal influenza," but "we are currently in the phase of seasonal influenza epidemic in the country," and currently "three types of influenza; type B, H1N1 influenza, and H3N2 influenza are prevalent in HDVHK, and we expect this situation to continue for the next week." This health official stated: "In the past week, the cause of hospitalization for 28 people who suffered from severe respiratory infections has been influenza, which may even lead to deaths among them." The newspaper Shahrvand, while publishing photos and a report on "grazing livestock among urban and hospital waste" in Pishva, Varamin, wrote: "The stomachs of livestock in Pishva County have long been fed with waste that is not buried and stored hygienically; the waste abandoned in the deserts around Pishva has now become a permanent grazing ground for sheep in this county. The sheep feed not near this waste disposal center but from the waste that is stored." This newspaper referred to the statements of Ismail Miranzadeh, head of the Environmental Department of Pishva County, about the production of "on average 900,000 kilograms of meat through this grazing ground," stating: "Every year about one million kilograms of sheep meat is produced in this county from waste, which includes hospital waste such as syringes and various infectious hospital waste, waste that is accumulated in the digestive system of sheep and transmits various infections to society." The newspaper Iran reported the announcement of "minimum and maximum fines for military service absentees based on educational qualifications" and quoted Mousa Kamali, deputy of the Human Resources Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic, stating: "What has been announced in the media as the monetary fine for those who have been absent for 8 years or more is the minimum amount of this fine, and there are also maximums for it." "Munich; A Winter Chance for Negotiations" The newspaper Arman dedicated the front page of its Saturday issue to Mohammad Javad Zarif and John Kerry, the foreign ministers of Iran and the United States, stating: "While critics of the nuclear agreement are still reminiscing about the 15-minute walk of Zarif and Kerry in the streets of Geneva and interpreting it, the two foreign ministers discussed and consulted with each other again in Munich, Germany, after a brief meeting in Davos, Switzerland." This newspaper reported that the meeting of the foreign ministers of Iran and the United States took place on Friday and behind closed doors, while Mohammad Javad Zarif "is expected to meet and consult with his counterparts in the European troika as well." Reza Raeisi in the report of the newspaper Arman emphasized that Mohammad Javad Zarif has shown that "he does not miss any opportunity, and now that prominent diplomats from around the world have gathered under one roof due to the Munich Security Conference, it is an ideal opportunity to continue the diplomatic process in the nuclear negotiations." The newspaper Etemad also headlined its Saturday issue with "Munich; A Winter Chance for Negotiations," writing: "A little over a month has passed since the beginning of the new Gregorian year, but Iran's nuclear negotiations with the 1+5 have entered a fast lane. The goal is to reach the deadline in March." Sara Masoumi in the report of the newspaper Etemad wrote: "Iran and the 1+5 are beginning bilateral and perhaps multilateral nuclear negotiations at the 51st Munich Security Conference, with some countries present in the negotiations, while no extension has a place in the negotiation lexicon of any of them," as the nuclear negotiations "have reached a stage where their fate must be determined by March 24 and perhaps at best by the end of the third month of the Gregorian calendar." This newspaper pointed out that "the political and technical dimensions of Iran's nuclear file have been known to everyone since the beginning of the marathon negotiations under the shadow of the eleventh government, as the complexity of this file was understood," emphasizing that "the entire effort of the eleventh government is to demilitarize it and turn it into a technical file that is removed from the Security Council and returned to the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency," and Mohammad Javad Zarif, the foreign minister of our country, has repeatedly emphasized during the year and a half of the nuclear negotiations that the end of these negotiations is not open, and it seems that considering what has happened in these negotiations, an extension for the third time is neither wise nor feasible." According to the newspaper Etemad, "now, given the atmosphere that has formed in Iran and also in the United States, opponents of the negotiations have found more opportunities to express their opposition, it seems that the political possibility of extending for the third time in March no longer exists. However, some media speculations, like what was reflected a few days ago in the American newspaper Los Angeles Times, indicate the possibility of a few days' extension of the negotiations." This newspaper emphasized that "this possibility will be more pronounced if both sides reach the certainty in mid-March that they can reach an agreement with an extension of less than a month," and in this case, "perhaps artificial respiration can continue the negotiations until reaching an initial political agreement." The newspaper Etemad pointed out that "what threatens this artificial respiration can be more pronounced than the political will of the parties present at the negotiating table," writing: "The U.S. Congress has set a deadline for the government, and the clock is ticking on the date of March 24. In a situation where the Democratic government of Barack Obama cannot announce reaching a political agreement with Iran by this date, the bells in the Senate will ring for intensifying sanctions against Iran. The reflection of this bell in the Islamic Republic of Iran is also the action of the parliament on a plan that was approved last week in the Islamic Consultative Assembly, according to which the beginning of intensifying sanctions against Iran will equal the cancellation of the joint action plan and the resumption of Iran's nuclear program in the style and manner before the Geneva temporary agreement." This newspaper emphasized that "in a situation where Iran and the 1+5 can reach a political agreement on the generalities in March, reaching a technical agreement by the end of June will not be very difficult," stating: "The Iranian nuclear file is closer to an agreement than ever after 12 years of negotiations, and the only issue that can make this agreement accessible is reaching the political belief that this agreement holds benefits for all parties." The beginning of opposition to the "political agreement" The newspaper Javan in the headline of its Saturday issue described the possibility of reaching a political agreement as "the possibility of agreement in the propaganda section of the negotiations." This newspaper, close to the Revolutionary Guards, wrote: "The Iranian nuclear team is moving towards a general political agreement in the absence of a comprehensive solution with the 1+5. Mohammad Javad Zarif, along with members of the nuclear team, has gone to Munich to pave the way for such an agreement." The newspaper Javan pointed out that "some sources do not rule out the possibility of announcing such an agreement in Munich," writing: "It seems that the nuclear negotiations between Iran and the 1+5 are approaching decisive stages, and both sides are using every opportunity to reach an agreement," and this time again, "the Munich Security Conference has provided an opportunity for the eleventh government's nuclear team to negotiate over the disputed issues with the American and possibly European parties." This newspaper also wrote: "Although the details of the Munich negotiations are unknown, some sources indicate the possibility of a political agreement between Iran and the 1+5 on the sidelines of the Munich conference," and even "according to informed sources, some signs indicate that the negotiating teams of Iran and the 1+5 may have decided to publish a text under the title of a political agreement in Munich, a subject that none of the negotiating team members have confirmed so far." The newspaper Javan simultaneously wrote: "While the parties have stated in recent weeks that they still disagree on the details, they are apparently trying to at least reach a general political agreement, a subject that seems more of a temporary solution to the nuclear conflict than a permanent resolution, aimed at influencing public opinion and opening the way for further discussions." The newspaper Kayhan also attacked the diplomacy of Hassan Rouhani's government and the Islamic Republic's nuclear negotiating team in its front page, stating: "The agreement on the generalities is the same broad hat of Geneva." This newspaper quoted Hossein Shariatmadari, the representative of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic in Kayhan, stating: "The two-stage agreement that is being referred to these days, and it is likely to be initiated on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, is the same broad hat that the opponent has prepared and implemented in the Geneva agreement for our nuclear activities." According to Kayhan, Hossein Shariatmadari stated during two speeches in Qom and Damavand on Wednesday and Thursday: "These days, America is talking about a two-stage plan for future negotiations, and unfortunately, this murmur is also heard in the statements of some of our nuclear officials," which "according to this plan, the first stage is an agreement on the generalities, and the second stage is an agreement on the details." The editor-in-chief of Kayhan emphasized that "the agreement on the generalities and the continuation of the challenge over the details is exactly the same broad hat that was prepared and implemented in the Geneva agreement for our nuclear activities," stating: "The main challenge is about the details, and discussing the generalities has no meaning; the agreement on the generalities was made in Geneva." Kayhan also quoted Hossein Shariatmadari stating: "It is unclear on what basis our negotiating brothers have designed the 'win-win' formula. Are we indebted to the Americans that we are supposed to pay their dues in the win-win formula? The win-win formula has an inverted function. In this formula, the spiteful enemy and debtor becomes a rival, and there is a fear that this rival may turn into a partner and instead of being a debtor, sit in the creditor's position. This is the same big mistake that has unfortunately occurred in the recent year and a few months of nuclear negotiations." Ali Jannati's response to the criticism of some clerics in Qom; "Destruction of the Ministry of Culture with fake news" The newspaper Iran reported in the headline of its Saturday issue that Ali Jannati, the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, during his visit to Isfahan and meeting with artists and cultural elites of this province, responded to the recent uproar over a music concert with "clear language" and mentioned "the role of an organized movement to create distrust among officials regarding the government's cultural policies." This newspaper referred to what it described as "an organized attack against the Ministry of Culture under the pretext of a music album featuring a female singer," stating that Ali Jannati, during his remarks in Isfahan in response to the attacks of conservative critics of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, said: "These individuals are trying to destroy this ministry by spreading false and fabricated news about granting music permits to solo female singers or granting permission for the publication of the book 'Colonel,'" while "many discussions have taken place in the music sector, but the main issue pursued in this ministry is based on the opinion of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, who 'as a reference...'