Opponents Should Not Be Allowed to Become Enemies

The daily Arman has dedicated a photo of Hassan Rouhani and his remarks at the "Moderation, Women, and Development" conference, quoting the President of the Islamic Republic as saying: "We can speak louder and issue declarations, but the goal is important and should not be forgotten" and "Whenever I saw a problem, I did not remain silent." The daily Etemad also published a photo of Hassan Rouhani surrounded by a purple hue on its front page, quoting the eleventh government president as saying: "Opponents should not be allowed to become enemies." The daily Jahan San'at published another part of these remarks on its front page, quoting the eleventh government president as saying: "Who said a woman must be confined to the home?" Mohammad Imani in the editorial of Kayhan accused Hassan Rouhani and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani of "structural breaking and chaos-seeking" and wrote: "While the claimants of exiting the establishment in 2001 and then opposing the establishment in 2009 and advocating boycotting the seventh, eighth, and ninth parliamentary elections are trying to whitewash their history of sedition and chaos with lessons from history, there are hands at work to assign a similar role of structural breaking and chaos-seeking - law-breaking - to Rouhani or Hashemi." The daily Vatan-e Emruz titled Hassan Rouhani's remarks as "requesting support for an unappealing list" and wrote that the Islamic Republic President said in his remarks on Sunday: "His supporters from the 2013 presidential election should also show up at the polls on the 7th of Esfand and vote for a list that is 'unappealing' to these supporters." Hashim Sabaghian, the first Minister of Interior after the Iranian Revolution, told the daily Arman: "An operations room against Rouhani has been formed." He also mentioned that "Hassan Rouhani cannot become Engineer Bazargan. Rouhani can only move in the path and manner of Engineer Bazargan." The daily Iran, close to the government, published a table of approved candidates in various provinces, stating: "The increase of 1500 in the number of approved candidates did not significantly change the situation for reformists; as the Guardian Council's revisions did not significantly include candidates from this stream, reformists must compete with the same remaining number of candidates." This newspaper noted that with the definitive opinion of the Guardian Council regarding the qualifications of candidates for the tenth parliamentary elections, most reformist 'faces' remained behind closed doors, so that the camp that was more focused on the parliamentary elections than its rival found itself in an unequal situation. The daily Javan, close to the Revolutionary Guards, however, in a report titled "An End to Complaining" referred to the approval of several reformists and wrote: "Despite some unacceptable backgrounds of reformists in the 2009 sedition, the system has trusted them once again. Now it remains to be seen how they will respond to this trust again." The daily Shargh, on its front page titled "1+5", reported that according to Ali Soufi, head of the reformists' election headquarters in Tehran, after the disqualification of reformist candidates, this headquarters had called for "reformist figures who have been approved and wish to be included in the coalition list to submit their resumes," and now "close to a hundred figures have been identified." Ali Soufi emphasized that the performance of the supervisory boards and the Guardian Council and widespread disqualifications "practically deprived reformists of the ability to finalize the list with their previous candidates," telling the daily Shargh: "We have set our goal to present a list of 30 people in Tehran" and from among the hundred candidates who submitted their resumes, "we will reach at least 60 people." Jalal Khushchehreh in the editorial of the daily Tejarat titled "Election Lists and the Nature of the Tenth Parliament" noted that "with the announcement of the number of approved candidates and the finalization of the fate of candidates for participation or non-participation in the electoral competitions, political factions and currents are gradually publishing election lists," emphasizing that "regardless of the details of the candidate approval process, what is currently important is the quality of the election lists being published." The daily Shargh, while examining the political inclinations of 30 candidates from the "Principlists' Coalition" in Tehran, wrote that 12 candidates from this list are from the "Steadfast Front and Ahmadinejad's government." "The Plight of the Coalition in the Absence of a Rival" is the title of a report from the daily Hamdeli about internal disagreements among the Principlists. This daily examined "disagreements over how to reach a common list and its consequences" within the Principlist camp. Some reformist figures in an interview with the daily Vaghaye Ettefaghieh rejected the possibility of an alliance with moderate Principlists, stating: "There is no reason to ally with Principlists." Ashraf Boroujerdi emphasized that such an alliance is "unlikely" and said that only "in some areas where there is no reformist candidate in the elections, there is a possibility of supporting logical and moderate Principlist figures." The daily Etemad reported on the "beginning of high-level talks between Iran and Europe after a decade of halt." Sara Masoumi in a report for Etemad wrote: "Tehran hosted Helga Schmid, Deputy High Representative for Foreign Affairs of the European Union, and her accompanying delegation on Tuesday. Schmid, who has been recognized as Iran's counterpart in nuclear negotiations over the past year and a half, is coming to the Iranian capital this time not focusing on the nuclear issue but with an agenda centered on political-economic relations between Europe and Tehran in the post-JCPOA days." The daily Vatan-e Emruz described the statements of Hossein Salami, the deputy commander of the Revolutionary Guards, as "the Guards' ultimatum to Saudi Arabia," writing that after Saudi Arabia announced its readiness to send ground forces to Syria, in Iran, Mohammad Ali Jafari, the commander of the Revolutionary Guards, initially described this claim by Al Saud as "bluster," and then Hossein Salami also said: "This issue is like a joke." The daily Vaghaye Ettefaghieh described the first visit of the Greek Prime Minister to Isfahan and Tehran as "dialogue of civilizations" and wrote: "Greece, in addition to its civilizational history, has high potential in shipping and tourism, which can bring diverse advantages to Tehran and Athens in the post-JCPOA conditions." "That Woman Came with Pain" is a field report by Asareh Kiani, a journalist for the daily Hamdeli, about "the situation of cancer-stricken women in a hospital," and simultaneously, the daily Sepid published a field report by Negin Bagheri from "Najmieh Hospital" as one of the oldest hospitals in Tehran. The daily Quds reported on its front page about "ambiguity in achieving 75% of the non-oil budget," and the daily Teadul also reported that "Benz and Fiat, alongside Suzuki and Peugeot, are partners of Iran Khodro." The daily Etemad, while publishing a report about "street vending" in Tehran and major cities of Iran, criticized the crackdown on street vendors, stating: "The boom in street vending is a sign of the hard living conditions of the people."