Excavator Fleet Instead of Firefighting Helicopters and Planes

The newspaper Etemad reported in its Saturday issue on the selection of members of the Central Council of the House of Parties, stating: "The first electoral promise of Rouhani in domestic politics was fulfilled on Thursday in Fatemi Square and the large hall of the Ministry of Interior with the determination of the composition of the Central Council of the House of Parties and the commencement of its activities." Shargh newspaper also has a report about "the first provincial gathering of the Kargozaran Sazandegi Party after 20 years," stating: "Last Thursday, for the first time, the Kargozaran Sazandegi Party held its first provincial gathering after two decades since its establishment. A party that previously had names overshadowing its cadre activities is now basing its change of policy on moving away from being person-centric to reaching out to the social base." The Arman newspaper dedicated its front page to Morteza Bank, the Deputy Chief of the Presidential Office of Hassan Rouhani's government, quoting him as saying: "Those who used to say 'I will say it' now say 'Do not say it.'" The Javan newspaper, close to the Revolutionary Guards, in its Saturday editorial titled "Ahmadinejad and the Right Test of Free Elections" referred to the former president as someone who "is still welcomed in every city and town." This newspaper implicitly stated that if Mahmoud Ahmadinejad runs for the presidency in the 1396 or 1400 elections, those who have always criticized the Guardian Council for its supervisory oversight and disqualifications will demand his disqualification by this council, or at least their emphasis on "free elections" can be subjected to "right testing." The newspapers Qanoon and Iran published reports about the extensive dimensions of the recent forest fires, especially in the forests of Lorestan. Qanoon reported on the continued "waiting for the arrival of the water-dropping plane at the fire site in Lorestan," while Iran stated: "Iran's natural resources and environment need sufficient budget and practical attention from the country's management and planning organization to at least equip its firefighting fleet with helicopters and firefighting planes instead of shovels and buckets." Qanoon, on its front page, wrote on the occasion of Journalist Day in Iran: "Journalists; they have a day, but no condition." Davood Mohammadi, in a note about "the problems of journalism in Iran," pointed out the dimensions and types of journalism problems in Iran, from the competition of virtual media and new communication technologies with newspapers and journalists to the short lifespan of newspapers and lack of long-term investment in this sector, stating: "The journalists' guild association, which has been a main institution in this field, cannot continue its work for various reasons, so in the absence of this institution, no organization is pursuing journalists' rights. Meanwhile, in our country, all other professions, including taxi drivers and brokers, have powerful guild associations, but journalists, who always pursue news from other guilds and defend the rights of other professions with their pen, are deprived of having a guild themselves." The realization of Rouhani's first promise in domestic politics with the determination of the "management of the Consortium of the House of Parties" was reported by Etemad on Saturday, stating: "The first electoral promise of Rouhani in domestic politics was fulfilled on Thursday with the determination of the composition of the Central Council of the House of Parties and the commencement of its activities." This newspaper pointed out that "now parties know that after six years without a tenant, the House of Parties is again hosting them. From today, party politicians can resolve all their professional-political issues under the roof of the House of Parties; a house whose management is not in the hands of a single faction and is divided in a consortium among three streams: reformists, principlists, and independents." Etemad wrote about the 21-member composition of the Central Council of the House of Parties, stating that seven representatives from each of the political streams of reformists, principlists, and independents were determined for membership in this council after intra-factional voting. Thus, among the reformists, "Mostafa Kaveh-Kabir, Yadollah Tahernazhad, Hossein Kamali, Ahmad Hakimipour, Mehdi Ali-Khani, Hossein Kashafi, Mohammad-Javad Haq-Shenas" were elected as members, and Babak Azarbad as an inspector, while among the principlists, "Hassan Ghafouri-Fard, Shahabuddin Sadr, Hossein Kanani-Moqaddam, Mohammad Mirbagheri, Fahimeh Khan-Mohammadzadeh, Abdollah Rouh-Alamini, Abdollah Bourbour were elected as members and Gholamreza Mehr-Abdollahi as an inspector for membership in the Central Council of the House of Parties. Among the independents, according to this newspaper, "Ghodratali Hashmatiyan, Gholamali Dehghan, Amir Eslamiyat-Bar, Mohammad Tabraei, Ahmad Sharif, Mohammad Mir-Mohammadi, Mohammad Neshabouri" were present as members and Saber Mir-Ataei as an inspector in the Central Council of the House of Parties. This newspaper noted that during the ordinary general assembly of the House of Parties, despite the principlists' efforts to assign the temporary presidency of the House of Parties to Hassan Biadi, Ali-Mohammad Gharibani, a reformist figure, was elected as the temporary president of the House of Parties with a majority of votes, and it was reported that "the members of the presidency of the House of Parties will be elected in the first meeting of the Central Council." The responsibility of the presidency of the House of Parties in this professional organization will be rotated among the three streams of principlists, reformists, and independents each year for a three-year term. The Etemad newspaper emphasized that the assembly of the House of Parties on Thursday and the election of its Central Council members "will please Hassan Rouhani above all," as Rouhani had mentioned it several times in his electoral campaign, and the reopening of the House of Parties was "one of his electoral promises in the field of domestic politics." Morteza Bank: Those who said 'I will say it' now say 'Do not say it.' The Arman newspaper dedicated its front page to Morteza Bank, the Deputy Chief of the Presidential Office of Hassan Rouhani's government, quoting him as saying: "Those who used to say 'I will say it' now say 'Do not say it.'" The Deputy Chief of the Presidential Office, in response to a question from Ehsan Ansari, a reporter for Arman newspaper about the reason for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's complaint against Eshaq Jahangiri, stated: "Mr. Ahmadinejad has gone from 'I will say it' to 'Do not say it' and seems to have forgotten that for 8 years, he continuously and astonishingly criticized all previous governments." Morteza Bank pointed out that "during the three years of the previous government, 79,000 coins worth 46 billion tomans were distributed, or one of the artistic and cinematic friends of the previous government received substantial financial assistance, and it is unclear how and where it was spent," stating: "The disorder and wastefulness of that period were widespread, from the mentioned cases to the issue of the platform purchased for about 80 million dollars that has not entered Iran at all or the case of Babak Zanjani, who owes about 2.6 billion dollars, and the question is why, despite all this, his case was initiated. They are making a forward escape, but now they want the judiciary to address Ahmadinejad's complaint. This is an incomprehensible double standard." This official of Hassan Rouhani's government emphasized that "the hardline current has placed its existence in unattainable and populist slogans," telling Arman newspaper: "This current has somewhat stabilized itself in the past and continues its activities using economic rents. They have infiltrated some media and have a significant presence in some power relations. The main concern of the hardline current is the strategic success of the government of prudence and hope," but now "in the matter of nuclear success, they have seen that hardline politics in foreign policy, shouting at others, and ignoring the interests of the country have no place and cannot bring suitable gifts to the people." Morteza Bank also stated: "Political hardliners have always shown that to remain in the political arena, they are willing to gamble with national interests and important national assets." He said: "This group has chosen distant and populist dreams for itself. However, when people realize that they can achieve these ideals through scientific and logical means, all the plans of hardliners will be thwarted, and their foundations will be shaken." He also mentioned: "The output of this group's think tank has shown itself at various times and in different locations. For example, the activities of plainclothes agents at some political and university meetings are all pre-planned and not spontaneous." Morteza Bank, in an interview with Arman newspaper, said: "I have a fundamental question for this group that criticizes some limitations in the nuclear agreement; where were they when six resolutions were issued against Iran by the UN Security Council, creating countless limitations in military, nuclear, missile, economic, financial, oil, etc.? Why did they not examine any of those resolutions and show sensitivity to their consequences and did not challenge the previous government?" Editorial of the newspaper close to the Revolutionary Guards; Returning to Ahmadinejad for the Right Testing of Reformists The Javan newspaper, close to the Revolutionary Guards, in its Saturday editorial titled "Ahmadinejad and the Right Testing of Free Elections" referred to the former president as someone who "is still welcomed in every city and town" and implicitly stated that if he runs for the presidency in the 1396 or 1400 elections, those who have always criticized the Guardian Council for its supervisory oversight and disqualifications will demand his disqualification by this council. Abdullah Ghanji, the editor-in-chief of this newspaper, described the revelations of government officials and newspapers, especially about the financial corruption of the first and second Ahmadinejad governments, as "relentless and unremitting attacks and a channelized revisionist approach towards the government and Ahmadinejad himself," stating that these attacks are "unprecedented in the post-revolution period" and "the Hashemi government did not do this with the Mousavi government, and the Khatami government did not do this with the Hashemi government, nor did Ahmadinejad's government do this with the Khatami government. Some failures may have been referred to the previous government or the efficiency comparison emphasized, but the volume of it is very small." The editorial writer of Javan newspaper stated that "the reformists pursue two main goals in this path; first, they have concluded in their private and home meetings that they must overshadow the revolutionary current of the country by highlighting Ahmadinejad's performance and introduce them in the elections under Ahmadinejad's banner to appear corrupt, and second, the more they criticize Ahmadinejad and subsequently conduct social assessments, they do not see his social status diminished." This newspaper wrote: "They constantly assess Ahmadinejad, and the anxiety stemming from that assessment is completely evident in their statements and media, and on the other hand, when Ahmadinejad enters a city, the public reception is greater than other official and announced trips. Here, the intellectual glasses are bewildered and confused at how the people do not accept that he is the head of a corrupt government." The Javan newspaper emphasized that "what caused Ahmadinejad to fall from the eyes of the revolutionary forces was not the administration of the country. Governments may make many mistakes in administration and are subject to criticism," stating that "what diminished Ahmadinejad in the eyes of the elites of the Islamic Revolution was his entry into the theoretical realm and production of thoughts inconsistent with the ideas of Imam [Ayatollah Khomeini], and this is precisely the point that is desirable for reformists and they will never criticize it." The editorial writer of Javan newspaper emphasized that "the fundamental axis of the reformists' struggle against the Islamic Republic is the demand for free elections and democracy," and "they consider the oversight of the Guardian Council as a violation of these two demands," writing in part of his note: "Suppose Ahmadinejad intends to enter the presidential elections in 1396 or 1400. What do the reformists expect from the Guardian Council? Can they act contrary to the front they have taken for the past 18 years? Are they willing to demand free elections with the same criteria they have in mind from the Guardian Council? Do they accept that the possible disqualification of Ahmadinejad is an insult to the public intelligence that still welcomes him in every city and town?" This newspaper emphasized that "Ahmadinejad has not yet been convicted in any court. Therefore, if he is approved for candidacy, according to the intellectual framework and claims of the reformists, they should not object to it. If he is disqualified, it should be protested by the reformists," writing: "We will wait for the right testing of these claims. Ahmadinejad can be a benchmark for measuring the policies and dual slogans of the claimants of the people. It is hoped that the ground for this right testing will be provided." Hundreds of hectares of forest turned to ashes The newspapers Qanoon and Iran published reports about the extensive dimensions of the recent forest fires, especially in the forests of Lorestan. Qanoon reported on the continued "waiting for the arrival of the water-dropping plane at the fire site in Lorestan," while Iran stated: "Iran's natural resources and environment need sufficient budget and practical attention from the country's management and planning organization to at least equip its firefighting fleet with helicopters and firefighting planes instead of shovels and buckets." According to Qanoon, "The last days of last week were accompanied by a renewed onslaught of fire on Iran's forests. In one instance, the fire in the forests and pastures of the Dalab Kesh Mahour Kouhdasht region in Lorestan province has so far destroyed 6,000 hectares of the natural areas of this region." This newspaper pointed out that "previously, the commander of the Air Operations of the Aerospace Force of the IRGC announced the operationalization of a completely indigenous firefighting system on the aircraft.