Introduction of the 'Elderly Group of Niavaran' in Resalat Newspaper

The newspaper Shargh dedicated its front page on Wednesday to a photo from a reformist gathering, reporting on a 'surge of hope' and welcoming the reformists' electoral list. This newspaper also published a list of reformist candidates in various electoral districts in its Wednesday issue. The newspaper Ebtekar noted the 'last-minute campaigning,' stating: 'The legal time for campaigning for the Assembly of Experts and the Islamic Council elections continues until 8 AM on Thursday, March 6. Therefore, Wednesday is a golden opportunity for each of the electoral candidates.' This newspaper simultaneously reported on the 'strong support of artists for the reformists' list in the tenth parliamentary elections,' featuring photos of Reza Kianian, Taraneh Alidoosti, Mahnaz Afshar, Kiumars Pourahmad, Amir Jafari, Leili Rashidi, Hossein Pakdel, and Bahareh Rahnama. According to this newspaper, artists and cultural figures say that this 'vote for reforms is for the continuation of positive cultural and artistic events.' Bijan Abdolkarimi, a philosophy professor, wrote in the Iran newspaper with the title 'Realism in Looking at the Ballot Box': 'I call for maximum participation in the elections, just as I did in the 92 elections,' although 'it is true that perhaps this election cannot fulfill all our political demands, but we must not allow the absence from the elections to turn pluralism and political diversity in our country into a stillborn.' The Arman newspaper, while publishing photos of Hassan Khomeini and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani with the title 'We are Victorious,' wrote: 'Informed people do not fall for appearances.' This newspaper simultaneously reported on 'circumventing the law in a principlist manner,' stating that Mojtaba Rahmandoust, a principlist candidate in Tehran, said: 'The opposing faction uses social networks to encourage people to vote, so the clergy and prayer leaders should also introduce the principlist electoral list using SMS tools.' The Law newspaper, while publishing a cartoon featuring the famous long-nosed Pinocchio, wrote on its front page under the title 'Lying Against the Opponent': The principlist faction has attributed 'two big lies' to the reformist faction during the electoral competition. According to this newspaper, in the 'first lie,' the principlists said, 'They are English, we are not,' and in the 'second lie,' they claimed, 'We provided subsidies, they will cut them.' 'The March election, our influence in the region or Western influence in Iran?' is the title of the editorial in the Wednesday issue of Kayhan newspaper. This newspaper referred to the elections on March 7 as a 'turning point' and wrote: 'In the past two years, the enemy's focus on leadership and the pressure to break the scaffolding and mechanisms of the system, such as the Guardian Council, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and the Assembly of Experts, indicated an effort to achieve a 'identity change' of the Islamic Republic, while on the other hand, a broad effort was aimed at changing the organizational structure of the system by 'capturing the parliament.' Saadollah Zarei wrote in the Kayhan editorial that for this reason, the elections on March 7 could influence both the future of the Islamic Republic and regional issues, and the 'special impact' of this election is that the type of influence that 'revolutionary Iran' or 'submissive Iran' has on the region will be different. Kayhan also published on its front page a letter from four principlist candidates for the parliament to Hassan Rouhani, accusing Cyrus Naseri, a member of the first nuclear negotiation team of the Islamic Republic, of receiving 'commissions from new gas contracts.' According to this newspaper, Elias Naderan, Alireza Zakani, Hossein Najabat, and Ahmad Amirabadi in their letter to Hassan Rouhani 'demanded transparent accountability from high executive officials regarding these suspicions and ambiguities and also firm action against potential economic corruption.' The Etelaat newspaper dedicated its front page to Eshaq Jahangiri, Hassan Rouhani's deputy, who criticized the 'false leads in the fight against corruption' on Tuesday, stating: 'Some feel that the government is simple and if they provide false leads, the government will follow them. If they provide correct leads, we will deal with anyone, even if the closest person to the cabinet is involved; there are no red lines, and we will deal with it; sensitivity to corruption is not only for the past, we are also sensitive to corruption now.' The Tejarat newspaper quoted Eshaq Jahangiri as saying: 'In 1392, the people did something that removed the threats, and in the 94 elections, they must do something to get the country's economic wheel moving.' This newspaper also published statements from Mohammad Baqer Nobakht, head of the Planning and Budget Organization, at the 'Seminar on Explaining the Sixth Development Plan for Economic, Social, Cultural, and the First Resistance Economy Plan for 95 to 99,' quoting him as saying: Given the current conditions and lack of access to sufficient information, cash subsidies will continue, and currently, 75 million people are receiving subsidies. The Javan newspaper, close to the IRGC, however, labeled the statements of Eshaq Jahangiri and two senior officials as a 'government propaganda carnival at the resistance economy seminar' and wrote: On Tuesday, at the 'Seminar on Explaining the Policies of the Sixth Development Plan and Resistance Economy' in the conference hall, the main theme of all officials' speeches was 'the serious problem of employment and people's livelihood and, of course, electoral accountability to critics; only Ali Tayebnia, the Minister of Economy, spoke within the framework of the seminar topic and did not enter the electoral sidelines, but the rest somehow borrowed a podium in the name of resistance economy and delivered their electoral speeches or defended themselves on the sidelines of the seminar. The Shargh newspaper also published a table and statistical details on the livelihood situation of Iranian workers from 84 to 92, stating: 'Most economic experts consider Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a disaster in the history of Iran's economy,' and the household expenditure deficit during the rule of 'the only principlist government in Iran' increased by 419% from 1 million and 7 thousand tomans to 9 million and 200 thousand tomans. The Resalat newspaper dedicated its front page to Mohammad Ali Mohammadi Kermani, Secretary-General of the Society of Clerics of Tehran and a candidate for the Assembly of Experts elections, stating: 'I will vote for the entire principlist list.' This newspaper simultaneously published an editorial titled 'Youth and the Elderly Group of Niavaran,' implicitly introducing Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Hassan Rouhani as the 'Elderly Group of Niavaran,' stating: 'Principlists, since 82, with the entry of the Builders of Islamic Iran, have tried to open the path for youth to various levels of government, although it is undeniable that some elderly individuals, especially the Elderly Group of Niavaran, have not neglected any effort.' Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Hassan Rouhani, two candidates for the Assembly of Experts, whom the Resalat newspaper implicitly described as the 'Elderly Group of Niavaran,' were born in 1313 and 1327, respectively, while Mohammad Ali Mohammadi Kermani, the Secretary-General of the principlist clerics' organization 'Society of Clerics of Tehran,' to whom the Resalat newspaper dedicated its front page, was born in 1310 and is 84 years old. Simultaneously, the Vatan-e Emruz newspaper, close to the Steadfast Front, also published a photo of the welcome for Ahmad Jannati, an 89-year-old candidate for the Assembly of Experts in Varamin, describing him as 'anti-English in the circle of revolutionaries.' This newspaper also published a photo of air pollution on its front page, stating: 'Dust and dirt covered half the country, but the head of the Environmental Protection Organization is busy with electoral statements and pursuing the dog rights law.' Vatan-e Emruz, referring to Masoumeh Ebtekar's statement: 'I hope representatives who understand environmental issues and can correctly assess their importance and priority go to the next parliament,' labeled the head of the Environmental Protection Organization's remarks as 'political' and 'electoral' and criticized them. The Vaghaye Ettefaghieh newspaper, on its front page titled 'Principlist Defense of Reformists,' wrote: 'Ali Larijani criticized the labeling and slander of hardliners against reformists.' The newspaper Ebtekar, in a report titled 'Engineer Hello,' referred to engineering as the most popular field of study in Iran, stating: 'Iran is among the ten countries that train the most engineers in the world.' In this context, the warning of the principlist newspaper regarding the possibility of high public participation in the elections, Hassan Khomeini: 'When voting,' 'Attacks on reformists with Ahmadinejad's legacy,' 'Changing the playing field of the proxies'; 'War against the people in the streets of Iran,' 'The first paragraph; the responsibility of the opponents and the possibility of radicalizing Iranian society,' 'The death of the last Mossad representative in Tehran amid the Iran crisis.'