Fuel Tanker Rollovers in Lorestan; Water and Soil Pollution

The newspaper Shargh, in its front page headline on Thursday, wrote "The Shadow of Extension Over Negotiations" quoting Abbas Araghchi: "We are not bound by time." Zeynab Esmaeili's report in Shargh notes that "with 34 days left until the deadline for reaching a comprehensive agreement; this time it is the Iranian side that says 'we are not bound by time.'" She assesses Abbas Araghchi's recent statements as a "message" at the beginning of the fifth round of negotiations for drafting the comprehensive agreement text in Vienna by the Iranian nuclear negotiating team, stating: "If negotiations are extended once more, Vienna could be dubbed the city of extensions." However, the newspaper Javan reported that a few days before the deadline for Iran and the 1+5 to reach a comprehensive nuclear agreement, whispers about the negotiations not reaching a conclusion have increased, but this time not from Iran or the USA; it is the ambassadors of European countries who say the chances of reaching an agreement by July 1, 2015, are slim. The newspaper also highlighted the remarks of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic in a meeting with parliamentary representatives, quoting him: "The nuclear positions are the same as I have publicly told the people." The newspaper Etelaat also quoted Ayatollah Khamenei on its front page, stating: "Respectful and polite interaction with ministers, especially in commissions, is one of the necessities of interaction." The newspaper Iran published news about the Minister of Education's letter to the Chief Justice for the "release of imprisoned teachers," stating that in the previous government, 5,000 cases were filed against teachers, and many educators received "prison sentences, expulsions, exile, salary deductions, suspension, teaching bans, and forced retirements." The newspaper Jahan San'at quoted Fatemeh Daneshvar, a member of the City Council, announcing the number of homeless people in Tehran as 20,000, stating: "We have five thousand homeless women in Tehran." This newspaper reported that Fatemeh Daneshvar, a member of the Islamic City Council of Tehran, in an interview with the Ana news agency, announced the population of homeless people in the capital in 2014 as 20,000, saying: "This number has increased by one-third compared to last year, which was 15,000, and compared to 2012, when the population was 12,000, it has increased by two-thirds." The newspaper Shargh also reported on "the misconduct of senior managers of the Martyrs Foundation during Ahmadinejad's government" and quoted Amir Khajasteh, a member of parliament and a member of the investigative committee, stating: "Some senior economic managers of the Martyrs Foundation have been involved in misconduct, and efforts have been made to negotiate the return of some assets to the foundation, while other unknown cases will be addressed in the judiciary." The newspaper Etemad published an interview with Mohammad Mahdi Zahedi, the Minister of Science in Ahmadinejad's government, stating: "The Minister of Science has distanced himself from the burden of illegal scholarships." Mohammad Mahdi Zahedi emphasized that the case of illegal scholarships "has nothing to do with my term," saying: "It has no relation to those years, and whatever happened was after we left the government." The newspaper Etemad wrote: "The Education and Research Commission of Parliament has not yet exited the field of challenge with the Ministry of Science over illegal scholarships. Mohammad Mahdi Zahedi, the head of this commission, says they certainly do not accept the report of the Ministry of Science," but accepts the content of the letter regarding Article 90 in this regard. The newspaper Arman published a cartoon by Mehdi Koochakzadeh on its front page and reported from some media that he intends to run for parliament from Yazd. The newspaper Shahrevand dedicated its front page photo to the repeated rollovers in Lorestan and a report on "the pollution of the Keshkan River and the environmental degradation in Lorestan under the shadow of repeated fuel tanker rollovers." "The Shadow of Extension Over Negotiations" The newspaper Shargh in its front page headline "The Shadow of Extension Over Negotiations" quoted Abbas Araghchi: "We are not bound by time." Zeynab Esmaeili's report in Shargh notes that "with 34 days left until the deadline for reaching a comprehensive agreement, this time it is the Iranian side that says 'we are not bound by time.'" She assesses Abbas Araghchi's recent statements as a "message" at the beginning of the fifth round of negotiations for drafting the comprehensive agreement text in Vienna by the Iranian nuclear negotiating team, stating: "If negotiations are extended once more, Vienna could be dubbed the city of extensions." According to this newspaper, Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister, upon arriving in Vienna, stated, "We have a difficult task ahead in drafting the final agreement text," and said: "In negotiations, we are not bound by time; rather, we seek a good agreement with all the details that meet our needs." Shargh noted that "Abbas Araghchi believes that drafting the final agreement text is in a difficult phase," quoting him: "Drafting the final agreement text and its annexes is a challenging task that is currently underway, which started with meetings held by experts on Tuesday, and we will join the negotiations and continue discussions with Ms. Helga Schmid." Abbas Araghchi also stated upon arriving in Vienna: "Work will continue until the deadline of July 1, and it may even go beyond that," and the newspaper Shargh emphasized that this statement by Abbas Araghchi "is an indication of the difficult conditions currently on the negotiation table." This newspaper, while reviewing the history of several rounds of negotiations between Iran and the 1+5 countries in Vienna, wrote: "Vienna, which has been hosting Iran's nuclear negotiations with the 1+5 countries for a year and a half, is waiting for an agreement that is supposed to carry the title of a comprehensive agreement, but so far this city has witnessed two extensions of the nuclear negotiations. According to Shargh, "Now, with 34 days remaining until the same generalities agreed upon in Lausanne lead to an agreement, if the parties adhere to what they have agreed upon, and internal pressures on both sides do not divert them from what they are supposed to achieve." This newspaper reminded that "so far five rounds of negotiations between the deputies and experts of the Iranian nuclear team and the 1+5 countries have been held in Vienna and New York to prepare for drafting the comprehensive agreement, but comments indicate that drafting the comprehensive agreement text, which still has many parentheses and blanks, remains pending, although it is said that 20 pages of the text have been drafted." The fifth round of negotiations between Iran and the 1+5 group at the level of deputies and experts to continue drafting the comprehensive text of the nuclear agreement began on Tuesday with the presence of experts and was elevated to the level of deputies on Wednesday, and the newspaper Shargh reported that Abbas Araghchi, along with Majid Takht-Ravanchi, the deputies of the Iranian Foreign Minister, have once again headed to Vienna to resume drafting the comprehensive agreement text with their colleagues and the representative of the head of the European Union's Foreign Affairs Committee. The letter from the Minister of Education to the Chief Justice for the release of imprisoned teachers The newspaper Iran published news about the Minister of Education's letter to the Chief Justice for the "release of imprisoned teachers," stating that in the previous government, 5,000 cases were filed against teachers, and many educators received "prison sentences, expulsions, exile, salary deductions, suspension, teaching bans, and forced retirements." This newspaper noted that the Minister of Education, in a letter to Sadegh Larijani, the Chief Justice, requested "amnesty for imprisoned teachers," stating that Ali Asghar Fani "aims to prevent the sentences of some teachers." According to the newspaper Iran, Mostafa Naseri Zanjani, the legal and parliamentary affairs deputy of the Ministry of Education, announced the news of Ali Asghar Fani's letter to Sadegh Larijani and regarding the arrest of teachers said: "These teachers had sentences from previous years, and currently they have been executed, but friends should have planned better and chosen another time for the arrests." This newspaper referred to Ali Asghar Fani as "the first Minister of Education" who has reacted to the imprisonment of teachers after the revolution and has written a letter to the Chief Justice, and emphasized that alongside the minister's letter and the statements of the legal deputy of this ministry, "the teachers' petition should also be mentioned," as "teachers across the country in their third gathering requested the government and parliament to consider specific solutions regarding the low salaries of teachers and also asked the Chief Justice to facilitate the conditions for the release of three imprisoned teachers." In the teachers' letter, it was emphasized that the imprisoned teachers "were arrested, tried, and imprisoned for participating in professional gatherings and protesting the performance of officials in the education sector of the previous government, and their protests and criticisms were entirely within the rights of educators in the country and were in no way political or security-related." The newspaper Iran recalled that "the story of the arrest of teachers goes back to not so long ago," reminding that in 2006, teachers held a widespread gathering protesting the non-implementation of the Coordinated System Law and the delay of their legal demands during Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government. At that time, the former Minister of Education not only did not support the teachers but also did not recognize their gatherings and their professional association. This newspaper quoted Ismail Abdi, the Secretary-General of the Teachers' Association, regarding the dimensions and extent of the previous government's crackdown on teachers' professional activities, stating: "Contrary to expectations during the 2006 gathering, Mahmoud Farshidi, by not recognizing independent professional and political organizations, created a severe security atmosphere in education, responding with force to the rightful protests of educators regarding the non-implementation of the delayed Coordinated System Law, which led to widespread arrests of educators and judicial sentences for teachers." Ismail Abdi told the newspaper Iran that during Mahmoud Farshidi's ministry, "5,000 cases were filed against teachers, and during his ministry, sentences such as expulsion, salary deductions, suspension, teaching bans, and forced retirements were issued for educators, and the licenses of professional associations were not renewed, and some political organizations of teachers were declared illegal, and correspondence from associations with the Ministry of Interior went unanswered." The newspaper Iran also quoted Ismail Abdi as saying: "Now in the eleventh government, we see that Ali Asghar Fani is the first Minister of Education after the Islamic Revolution who has reacted to the imprisonment of teachers and has written a letter to the Chief Justice. Also, in this government, associations and professional organizations have been recognized, and the Minister of Education has ordered that many teachers' cases be reviewed by the Supreme Supervisory Board of Education." Ismail Abdi stated that the review of teachers' cases in the Supreme Supervisory Board of Education "has allowed many teachers who were exiled to return to their hometowns to teach." Rasul Badaghi and Mohammad Davari are among the teachers who have been imprisoned since 2009, and in the past month, Alireza Hashemi, the Secretary-General of the Iranian Teachers' Organization, and Ali Akbar Baghaei, the Vice President of the Iranian Teachers' Association, have also been arrested and imprisoned. Member of the City Council of Tehran: We have five thousand homeless women in the capital The newspaper Jahan San'at quoted Fatemeh Daneshvar, a member of the City Council, announcing the number of homeless people in Tehran as 20,000, stating: "We have five thousand homeless women in Tehran." This newspaper reported that Fatemeh Daneshvar, a member of the Islamic City Council of Tehran, in an interview with the Ana news agency, announced the population of homeless people in the capital in 2014 as 20,000, saying: "This number has increased by one-third compared to last year, which was 15,000, and compared to 2012, when the population was 12,000, it has increased by two-thirds." Fatemeh Daneshvar, referring to the rapid growth of the phenomenon of "homeless women," said: "In the population of 12,000, there were three thousand women, and in the population of 20,000, there are five thousand homeless women," and this "significant increase in homeless women has raised concerns among many officials in the country regarding the exponential increase in social problems." According to the newspaper Jahan San'at, Fatemeh Daneshvar also stated: "Some of these women engage in prostitution to obtain money for their drug use." This member of the City Council of Tehran also mentioned strange statistics about the births of children of homeless women, noting that their information is usually not registered and they lack a specific identity, as the number of children born in hospitals in the city's vulnerable areas shows a discrepancy of 7 to 8 percent with the statistics recorded in civil registration. Fatemeh Daneshvar also stated: This statistical discrepancy "indicates that children of street women who become pregnant are either sold or experience events that lead to their information not being registered in the civil registration system." According to the newspaper Jahan San'at, this member of the City Council of Tehran emphasized that "our officials must accept the existence and definitions related to social harms present in today's society," stating: "We must accept that there is a homeless woman in our city who also engages in prostitution, and then proceed to register their information and coding them, which does not mean recognizing them but allows us to take preventive measures to prevent the birth of children who have no identity and will either be sold to human trafficking groups or form the population of working children in the city." Fatemeh Daneshvar referred to economic issues as one of the "most important" problems, stating: "This issue has led to the emergence and growth of social harms such as homelessness, street women, working children, and phenomena of this kind." This member of the City Council also named "addiction" as the most significant problem in the capital, stating: "Studies show that despite the rapid growth of addiction and its prevalence among younger age groups, no expert work is being done to solve it, and although legally this duty falls under the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor, and Social Welfare, the merging of three ministries...