Secret Acceptance of Foreign Patients

The newspaper Arman reported that on Sunday, Morteza Rahmani-Moayed, the Deputy for Tourism of the Cultural Heritage Organization, warned hospitals that accept foreign patients outside the regulations and standards of the Health Tourism Steering Council and urged the Ministry of Health to take these matters more seriously. The newspaper wrote about the 'secret acceptance of foreign patients': 'The favorable condition of Iran's health and medical system has led to an increase in foreign nationals, especially from Arab countries, coming to Iran for certain surgical procedures in recent years. Among the most requested procedures are cosmetic surgeries, but there are also unofficial reports of foreigners, particularly citizens of Arab countries, seeking organ transplants.' Simultaneously, the newspaper Javan, close to the Revolutionary Guards, quoted Mohammad Kazem Anbarlooee, a member of the Islamic Coalition Party, as saying that the punishment for the candidates who protested the results of the 2009 presidential election is 'execution.' This newspaper, without naming Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, the two candidates who protested the 2009 election and have been under house arrest since February 2011, wrote: 'If there had been no house arrest, the judiciary would have intervened. The actions of the leaders of the sedition, according to the consensus of the majority of religious authorities, constitute a clear case of waging war against the system and the people, and the definitive punishment for that is execution.' The newspaper Etemad, in its front page on Tuesday, titled 'Baharestan; Four Days After the Incident,' reported that 'the Ministers of Intelligence and Interior and the Deputy Commander of the Revolutionary Guards explained the process of dealing with terrorists in a closed session of the Parliament.' This newspaper noted that 'the atmosphere of Baharestan has not yet returned to normal following the first session of Parliament after the terrorist attack on Wednesday,' writing: 'Armed agents have surrounded the Baharestan area at a specified distance from each other and in groups of five. The agents are wearing bulletproof vests and are attentive to all movements around the square.' Abolfazl Mousavi, a representative from Yazd, told Etemad about the content of the closed session of Parliament on Sunday: 'The issue for the representatives was that the operation was very simple. Perhaps the protection of the Parliament was caught off guard because of this simplicity. The representatives' question was why, in the very first place where the terrorists stood in front of the Parliament's cameras to arm themselves, they were not confronted there?' and 'This negligence is while when our representatives in Kenya were arrested immediately for taking a picture in front of an embassy. They take every activity seriously and deal with it. Terrorism is taken very seriously in the world.' This parliament representative emphasized that 'security units usually assume that everyone is a suspect unless proven otherwise. Unfortunately, this principle was not observed in the incident on Wednesday, and for this reason, the terrorists easily walked up to the Parliament armed and opened fire inside, wreaking havoc.' The newspaper Etemad quoted the representative from Yazd as saying that in the closed session of Parliament, attended by the Minister of Intelligence, Minister of Interior, and the Deputy of the Revolutionary Guards, 'the representatives were not looking for someone to blame. They were looking to ensure that this incident does not happen again.' The newspaper Shargh described the first session of the Islamic Consultative Assembly after the attack on Wednesday as 'passing through terrorism' and simultaneously quoted Behrouz Namati, the spokesperson for the Parliament's presiding board, about the closed session of Parliament: 'There were weaknesses in the Parliament during the terrorist incident that cannot be hidden, and Mr. (Ali) Larijani also mentioned some issues in this regard. Security officials are also looking to resolve this issue, and by Tuesday, they will present a clear plan for securing the Parliament in terms of protection and security, which the presiding board of Parliament will decide on.' The newspaper Aftab Yazd, in its front page, referring to the request of Parliament representatives for 'covering the weaknesses of the Parliament's protection,' quoted Mohammad Kazemi, a member of Parliament, about the closed session on Sunday: 'In this session, it was said that we must equip the Baharestan building with technical and electronic equipment. On the other hand, the Parliament is located in an area where residential homes have a view of it. For this, it was decided that measures should be taken. The next issue was changing the routes and streets leading to Baharestan.' Kayhan emphasized on its front page that 'the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a strange move, bought all the smuggled luxury cars,' writing: 'It was supposed that smuggled luxury cars would be destroyed or sold for export by the responsible agencies, and now 'according to the agreements made, it was decided that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would purchase these cars for use in embassies and consulates abroad and transfer them outside the country.' However, Shargh reported the Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied the news mentioned by Kayhan and wrote: 'Following the published news regarding the purchase of smuggled luxury cars by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the public relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly denied this news and stated that 'in recent months, proposals regarding the purchase of smuggled luxury cars were made to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; however, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected these proposals at that time and announced that it had no need or desire to use these cars for administrative and ceremonial purposes.' 'The Cry of Plasco' is the headline of a report in the newspaper Shahrvand that reported 'on Sunday morning, nearly 100 Plasco merchants gathered in front of the Building of the Foundation of the Oppressed.' This newspaper noted that on Sunday morning, the Plasco merchants gathered in front of the tall white building of the Foundation of the Oppressed to clarify the status of their shops, writing: 'Now all 286 shops of the Plasco building that were not damaged are dissatisfied. This dissatisfaction led them to the Resalat Highway to protest what has happened to them in the past five months and the uncertainty of their shops. Their shops were safe from the collapse and explosion in the building, but now thieves have broken into their shops, and in recent weeks, air conditioners, some goods, and their lamps have been stolen.' According to the Shahrvand newspaper, after the Plasco incident, the merchants were promised a loan of 300 million tomans, but so far 'not a single person has received this loan, and according to the Plasco merchants, 'the government was supposed to give the employers of Plasco a loan of 300 million tomans with a one-year grace period and a 7% interest rate, but nothing happened, and the interest rate returned to the same 16%. Everyone has forgotten about Plasco.' The newspaper Etemad also has a report titled 'Black Winter' and wrote: 'The Zemestan-Yurt coal mine exploded at 11:30 AM on May 13. At the time of the explosion, 23 workers were working in the extraction and advance tunnels of the mine, all of whom were killed. 21 workers out of a total of 50 workers and technicians who were outside the mine at the time of the explosion and ran inside to help their colleagues were also killed.' This newspaper, while publishing the workers' accounts from the day of the incident, emphasized that 'the Zemestan-Yurt coal mine had no exit other than the entrance. No ventilation openings had been created for air circulation in the mine,' writing: 'The Yurt coal mine was a sloping tunnel leading to death. Gradual death, instant death' and 'the mine owners knew very well what the reality of Yurt was. The only important thing was that Yurt had 60 years of coal reserves. 60 years, 100,000 tons each year. The miners also knew very well what the reality of Yurt was. The only important thing was that the families of 300 miners would not die of hunger.'