IRGC Ceremony for the 'Destruction of Six Thousand Satellite Receivers'

The Iran newspaper reported on its front page on Wednesday about a 'new plan to attack the government,' stating that 'hardline circles have initiated a new political and psychological operation against Rouhani's government this week.' The newspaper also mentioned the 'acceleration of efforts to counter nuclear negotiations' by hardliners in Iran, noting that 'hardline circles and their affiliated news outlets have launched a new wave of destructive actions against nuclear diplomacy and have dragged their factional games into the realm of the national interests of the country.' The Sharq newspaper reported on a new resolution from the Energy Commission of the Parliament regarding the method of eliminating subsidies for high-income beneficiaries, stating: 'A plan was approved in the Energy Commission of the Parliament and presented to the members of the Joint Commission, which will eliminate subsidies for individuals earning more than two million tomans per month.' Economic expert Ali Rashidi assessed the Energy Commission's resolution as stemming from a 'miscalculation by the Parliament,' while Saeed Leilaz emphasized that 'identifying high-income individuals is neither practical nor advisable,' as 'removing some individuals from the subsidy list will have social repercussions.' The Etemad newspaper reported on 'Iran's readiness to talk with Saudi Arabia,' quoting Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of the Islamic Republic, stating: 'Iran is ready for candid discussions about matters of interest to Iran and Saudi Arabia.' The Etemad newspaper also examined the 'hidden battle over the Parliament,' discussing the 'situation of reformists and principlists,' and wrote: 'What can be inferred from the current political atmosphere in Iran is that one pole in the upcoming elections will be the reformists. They emphasize their comprehensive and powerful presence in the elections every time they have an opportunity to express their views, and so far, there has been little sign of strategic or even tactical disagreements among them; there is a common message among all reformist factions, which is the leadership of Seyyed Mohammad Khatami.' The Khorasan newspaper quoted the Minister of Roads and Urban Development as saying, 'We currently have 48,000 kilometers of arterial roads, which account for over 75 percent of transportation in Iran,' but 'the condition of 40 percent of arterial roads is poor and very poor.' According to this newspaper, Davood Keshavarzian, Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development and Head of the Road Maintenance Organization, also announced at this conference that 'the number of traffic accident victims decreased to 18,000 last year, but we could not achieve the program's goal of reducing traffic fatalities by 10 percent annually, and this figure is about 5.6 percent.' The Shahrvand newspaper reported on 'the return of surveillance cameras to the classrooms of some schools in Tehran,' but at the same time, Masoud Taqafi, spokesperson for the Tehran Education Department, told this newspaper: 'According to the resolution of the Supreme Council of Education, cameras can be installed in public areas of the school, such as entrances, yards, and hallways to help maintain security, but since we consider the classroom a private space for teachers and students, the installation of cameras is prohibited and constitutes a violation. We will deal with the officials of any school we learn about in this regard.' The Shahrvand newspaper dedicated its front page to the ceremony for the destruction of 6,000 satellite antennas in a stadium, reporting that the Fajr Corps of Fars Province held a special ceremony at the 22 Bahman Stadium in Shiraz on Tuesday afternoon for the 'destruction of 6,000 satellite receivers.' The Javan newspaper featured criticism from Gholamreza Jalali, head of the Civil Defense Organization, against the eleventh government, quoting him as saying: 'The country is at a crossroads of production or begging.' According to this newspaper, the head of the Civil Defense Organization also stated: 'An anti-production current has formed that must be countered. For example, gasoline production factories are being shut down for various reasons, and the government is meeting gasoline needs through imports, which contradicts the policies of resistance economy.' The Javan newspaper also dedicated its front page to Mohammad Ali Jafari, stating that the Commander of the IRGC, in a message on the occasion of the death of 'Mohammad Ali Allahdadi,' a senior commander of this force due to an Israeli attack in southern Syria, emphasized that 'Zionists should expect our devastating thunderbolts,' announcing that 'the IRGC, as it has shown in past wars in Lebanon and Palestine, will stand until the end of Israel's collapse.' The Kayhan newspaper also reported on its front page with the title 'Hezbollah's Hard Revenge is the Nightmare of Zionists,' referring to the deaths of several members of Hezbollah Lebanon, including 'Jihad Mughniyeh, the son of Imad Mughniyeh,' during an Israeli missile attack in Quneitra, southern Syria, and reported on Hezbollah's imminent revenge in this regard. The Qanoon newspaper reported that Mehdi Taeb, head of the Ammar Headquarters, in response to Hassan Rouhani's remarks about a referendum, stated: 'Regarding the referendum, he is following the path of Mr. Banisadr, as the first person who proposed a referendum was Mr. Banisadr, who said Iran has reached a deadlock and to get out of this deadlock, a referendum must be held.' According to this newspaper, Mehdi Taeb emphasized that 'Masoud Rajavi has left, but other Masoud Rajavis have not left,' and regarding Ali Motahari, in response to Motahari's remarks about lifting the house arrest, he said: 'I do not know what Mr. Motahari's goal is with these remarks; I do not consider him a person with a goal in this matter, and I believe he himself does not know what he is saying, and my suggestion is that forensic medicine examine him, as the statements he makes do not fit.' The 'Repeated Promise from Russia' for the delivery of the S-300 missile shield has also caught the attention of some newspapers. Sharq wrote about this: 'Nearly seven years have passed since the $800 million contract between Iran and Russia regarding the S-300 defense shield, and there is still no news of the shield,' but after the meeting on Tuesday between the defense ministers of Iran and Russia, RIA Novosti, the official Russian news agency, quoted a Russian official as saying that 'the delivery of S-300 and S-400 systems from Russia to Iran is likely.' The Farhikhtegan newspaper also reported with the headline 'Driven from the West, Hopeful for the South,' stating: 'The Russian Minister of Defense signed a security agreement in Tehran.' The 'new plan of hardliners to attack the government'; incapacitating the government domestically, disrupting negotiations abroad. The Iran newspaper reported on its front page on Wednesday about a 'new plan to attack the government,' stating that 'hardline circles have initiated a new political and psychological operation against Rouhani's government this week.' Ebrahim Beheshti, in a report for the Iran newspaper, noted that 'this attack initially manifested itself in the form of insulting headlines and images in the newspapers and websites of hardliners,' writing that the attack on the government 'has turned into a fixed theme of speeches and statements by the organizations and groups of this current.' The Iran newspaper quoted Hossein Mousavi Tabrizi, Secretary-General of the Society of Researchers and Teachers of Qom Seminary, as stating that one reason for these attacks is the government's 'fight' against 'corruption,' writing: 'Many of the hardliners who are currently writing against the government or expressing opinions are staunch supporters of the previous government and are dissatisfied with the eleventh government's approach to economic corruption. The opponents think that if this trend continues, more cases will certainly be revealed, cases that, in any case, mention the names of some figures and personalities related to the previous government.' Hossein Mousavi Tabrizi also predicted to the Iran newspaper that 'the more these corruption announcements increase, the more intense the attacks on the government will become,' as 'the parliamentary elections are also approaching, and these currents do not want an unfavorable image associated with corruption to be evoked from them,' and instead, the opponents 'want to portray the government's record as dark and convey an ineffective image of the government to society.' Nasser Imani, a principlist political analyst, also described the perspective of some principlists to the Iran newspaper as a 'fuming look,' stating: 'There is a fuming and angry look in the country that sees everyone and everything as an enemy, and such a perspective certainly has its own specific results,' but 'we should not be afraid of these analyses and perspectives and should allow them to speak because, after all, they also have a social base of a few percent.' Majid Nasirpour, Deputy for Monitoring and Follow-up of the Parliamentary Affairs of the President of the Islamic Republic, also told the Iran newspaper: 'The focus of some specific currents and circles' attacks on the government's performance actually points to what is considered a strength of this government,' and that 'the insistence of critics on portraying a government that has not yet reached its second anniversary as ineffective indicates specific political goals and planning.' This government official emphasized that Rouhani's eleventh government is currently 'most attacked and criticized in the area of diplomacy and especially nuclear negotiations' by hardline principlists, while 'previously, these nuclear talks created a psychological calm in society,' and 'many of the country's revenues that were blocked during the previous term based on the same logic that called resolutions scrap paper are now in the economic cycle of the country.' The Iran newspaper also published another report on Wednesday about the 'acceleration of efforts to counter nuclear negotiations,' stating: 'Hardline circles and their affiliated news outlets have launched a new wave of destructive actions against nuclear diplomacy and have dragged their factional games into the realm of the national interests of the country.' Maryam Salari, in a report for the Iran newspaper, emphasized that 'the Rouhani government's strategy to overcome sanctions over the past 17 months has always been subject to sabotage by hardliners, and specifically, hardline circles began their sabotage the day after the signing of the Geneva agreement in December 2013.' The Iran newspaper noted that 'simultaneously with the wave of destruction against the few-minute walk of the foreign ministers of Iran and the United States,' the publication of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad in Charlie Hebdo 'was used as a basis for criticism of Mohammad Javad Zarif's pre-planned trip to Paris,' writing: 'The Iranian foreign minister traveled to Paris to consult with French officials amid nuclear negotiations to align this stubborn and unpredictable member of the negotiations with the collective agreements of the 1+5, but hardline media currents described Zarif's pre-planned presence in Paris as indifference to the insult of the French publication and endorsing this action,' and in their attacks on Mohammad Javad Zarif, even 'resorted to lies.' This newspaper also referred to 'the factional exploitation of the gathering in front of the French embassy' against nuclear negotiations and the diplomacy of the eleventh government, while emphasizing that 'obstruction in the path of resolving the nuclear challenge, which was one of the most important promises of Rouhani at the beginning of his term, is at the forefront of the scenario writers' plans for crisis creation.' The Iran newspaper reminded that the intensification of attacks by opponents of nuclear negotiations in Iran against Hassan Rouhani's government occurs at a time when 'the U.S. government is struggling hard against the hardliners in Congress to prevent the approval of further sanctions so that it is not identified as the main culprit for the failure of nuclear negotiations; meanwhile, the hardliners want Iran to stop negotiations, once again turning the game in favor of actors incompatible with any nuclear agreement and portraying a distorted image of Iran in the international frame reminiscent of not-so-distant past years.' Ali Shamkhani's message to Riyadh: Iran's readiness for dialogue with Saudi Arabia. The Etemad newspaper reported on 'Iran's readiness for dialogue with Saudi Arabia,' quoting Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of the Islamic Republic, stating: 'Iran is ready for candid discussions about matters of interest to Iran and Saudi Arabia.' This newspaper described Ali Shamkhani's remarks on Tuesday during a meeting with 'Iran's ambassador in Saudi Arabia' as 'Tehran's message to Riyadh' and recalled that Ali Shamkhani is 'the secretary and representative of the leadership in the Supreme National Security Council and the first person of the government in the field of regional policy-making.' According to Etemad, Ali Shamkhani emphasized the 'unprecedented financial and human losses resulting from sectarian and religious conflicts in the Islamic world, stressing the necessity of 'the practical role of Islamic countries in preventing bloodshed among Muslims and seriously confronting extremism and terrorism, which today is manifested in the guise of ISIS.' This newspaper noted that last week, Marzieh Afkham, spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, also stated in her press conference with reporters that 'we are seeking a meeting with the foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia in Tehran or Riyadh,' and Hossein Amirabdollahian also stated that 'with respect, wisdom, and expediency, and understanding that Iran and Saudi Arabia are two important countries in the region, we believe that dialogue is the most appropriate solution, and we hope that through diplomatic discussions at various levels between us, we can have serious, constructive, and effective discussions regarding the threats that have arisen against our region, such as terrorism and extremism.' Mohammad Ebrahim Taraghi Nejad, in a report for the Etemad newspaper, titled Ali Shamkhani's remarks on Tuesday as 'good news from a responsible official regarding Saudi Arabia,' wrote: 'Since Hassan Rouhani was elected as the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, there have been daily news in the media about the visits of senior officials of the system to Riyadh to improve regional relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia; from the visit of Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani to Mohammad Javad Zarif. Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani was more than anyone else in the headlines to go to Saudi Arabia.'