Three Thousand Reports of Land Grabbing Every Week

The newspaper Qanoon reported with the headline "Competition of Hands and Eyes for a Healthy Election" that "government officials responded to Ayatollah Yazdi regarding the supervision of the Guardian Council." Mohammad Reza Khabaz, Deputy for Legislative Affairs of the Presidential Parliamentary Office, emphasized that "Rouhani never said that supervision is merely observational," and questioned why some reacted negatively to the President's logical remarks, stating that the President's rational words should be welcomed rather than causing unrest. The newspaper also quoted Hossein Ali Amiri, Deputy Minister of Interior, stating that "the organization of electronic elections has been discussed multiple times by relevant officials, especially the Minister of Interior, in official meetings with the members of the Guardian Council," adding that "the necessary software for conducting electronic elections is entirely domestic and developed by Iranian experts, and is not imported at all." The statements of Mostafa Pourmohammadi, Minister of Justice under Hassan Rouhani, received widespread attention in Thursday's newspapers in Iran. Shargh newspaper highlighted that "the house arrest, corruption of Ahmadinejad's government, and the executions of 1987 were the main focus of Mostafa Pourmohammadi's remarks." Aftab Yazd emphasized that the Minister of Justice stated: "The solution to the house arrest issue is calmness." Etemad newspaper reported with the headline "Vote 34" that "with the announcement of support from Barbara Mikulski and obtaining the thirty-fourth supportive vote in the Senate, Barack Obama's veto on maintaining and implementing the nuclear agreement with Iran was secured." This newspaper stressed that "Barack Obama, the President of the United States, is on the verge of his most significant diplomatic victory," noting that "34 Democratic senators in the U.S. Senate have given the green light to their fellow negotiators. On Wednesday, the final green light was able to bring the number of Obama's supporters to the golden number 34, which guarantees the safe passage of the JCPOA through Congress even if vetoed by opponents." The Citizen newspaper dedicated its front page to behind-the-scenes footage of Ali Larijani's interview with CNN, quoting the Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly as saying: "There is a possibility of changing Iran's perspective towards the U.S." Meanwhile, the Young newspaper, close to the Revolutionary Guards, featured a stone inscribed with "one hundred titles of America in the words of Khomeini" on its front page, describing it as "the stone of America's attributes on the grave of the former embassy." Kayhan, a newspaper under the supervision of the Supreme Leader's representative, criticized the "long tongue of America and the absence of clarity in diplomacy" in its front page, stating: "While American officials, especially the President, increase their attacks against the Islamic Republic every day after the agreement, there is a lack of response and clarity in the government's diplomacy." Hamshahri reported on the "one million tomans loss for each Iranian due to smuggling," stating: "$25 billion worth of goods are smuggled into Iran annually, which, if each dollar is calculated at 3,000 tomans, amounts to about 75 trillion tomans." The Citizen newspaper reported on its front page that Qobad Afshar, head of the Land Affairs Organization, stated that "three thousand reports of land grabbing" reach the organization every week, and most of these reports are accurate. The Arman newspaper reported on the traffic police's plan to "confiscate the vehicles of those with improper hijab" and the requirement for "female drivers for girls' school transportation." Shargh reported the death of "Iraj Karimi, a prominent director and critic of cinema," stating: "Iraj Karimi, a film critic and director of films such as 'Gardens of Kandolus,' 'We Pass By,' 'The Magical Generation,' 'Relations,' and 'A Few Strands of Hair,' passed away on Wednesday due to bone marrow cancer." This newspaper also reported the appointment of "Saleh Adibi, the first Kurdish and Sunni ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran," stating: "Despite the halfway point of the eleventh government, the firsts of this government are still being unveiled; the first Sunni Kurdish ambassador has been appointed by the government, and reports indicate that the first female ambassador of the Islamic Republic will be introduced soon." The competition of "hands" and "eyes" over the elections; government officials respond to the Speaker of the Assembly of Experts. The newspaper Qanoon reported with the headline "Competition of Hands and Eyes for a Healthy Election" that "government officials responded to Ayatollah Yazdi regarding the supervision of the Guardian Council." According to this newspaper, after Hassan Rouhani emphasized the implementation of the law as the responsible party for enforcing the Constitution in a speech to governors and told the Guardian Council to fulfill its main role in the elections, various individuals and institutions criticized the President's remarks, and after the "government-opposing media," Mohammad Yazdi, the Speaker of the Assembly of Experts, took a position regarding Rouhani's remarks during the eighteenth session, stating: "We have no qualms with anyone and believe that the Ministry of Interior is the executor and the Guardian Council is the supervisor, and its supervision will be substantive, not observational, and this supervision will take place from the moment of registration until the announcement of results." The newspaper Qanoon emphasized that "these statements by Mohammad Yazdi did not go unanswered by government officials," reporting that Mohammad Reza Khabaz, Deputy for Legislative Affairs of the Presidential Parliamentary Office, pointed out that "Rouhani never said that supervision is merely observational," stressing that "I do not know why some are mourning and making noise upon hearing these logical remarks from the President; the President's rational words should be welcomed, not cause unrest." Mohammad Reza Khabaz also stated: "The President is responsible for enforcing the Constitution and has sworn to uphold the law. In one of his recent remarks, the President stated that supervision is separate from execution; in my opinion, this statement was completely wise and logical. It is unclear why some are upset by this statement from the President." The newspaper Qanoon quoted Mohammad Reza Khabaz as saying: "In the fourth parliament, we opposed substantive supervision, but our voices were not heard, and ultimately substantive supervision became law, and the law is enforceable and respected, but even this type of supervision does not have the right to interfere in the execution; the law also states that inquiries must be made from four authorities, meaning not more or less. If a reference is to be added or removed from these authorities, the law must first be amended. No individual can impose their own preferences in the execution of the law." Hossein Ali Amiri, the Deputy Minister of Interior, is another government official who, in response to the Speaker of the Assembly of Experts' comments regarding "distrust in holding electronic elections" and "importing election software from China," stated: "The organization of electronic elections has been a topic that has been discussed multiple times by relevant officials, especially the Minister of Interior, in official meetings with the members of the Guardian Council," adding that "the necessary software for conducting electronic elections is entirely domestic and developed by Iranian experts, and is not imported at all." According to the newspaper Qanoon, the Deputy Minister of Interior also stated: "The Ministry of Interior's contract partner for manufacturing electronic voting devices is one of the ministries, therefore the report presented to Ayatollah Yazdi regarding the construction of the software for the relevant devices by South Korea and China is baseless." Hossein Ali Amiri, however, stated: "Ayatollah Yazdi is one of the country's elders, and I have had respect for him for a long time, and his opinions are important, but I do not find it appropriate to speak through the media in a year of unity and harmony with him," adding that "for the Ministry of Interior, internal calm and public trust in holding elections is important and fundamental, and I have no belief in creating tension." The newspaper Qanoon also reported that Elham Aminzadeh, legal deputy of Hassan Rouhani, emphasized the "improper actions in the Guardian Council," stating: "Sometimes when we talk to the members of the Guardian Council, they also admit that perhaps the proper and absolute correctness in supervision has not been observed, and perhaps those who were not qualified entered, and those who were qualified were rejected." The legal deputy of Hassan Rouhani stated: "When we asked the Guardian Council about the type of supervision, they said that the supervision of the Guardian Council is substantive, but how the Constitution and the supervision of the Guardian Council are implemented and what its legal basis is are two completely different topics." The account of the principlist minister of Rouhani regarding "house arrest, corruption of Ahmadinejad's government, and the executions of 1987" The statements of Mostafa Pourmohammadi, Minister of Justice under Hassan Rouhani, received widespread attention in Thursday's newspapers in Iran. The Shargh newspaper highlighted that "house arrest, corruption of Ahmadinejad's government, and the executions of 1987 were the main focus of Mostafa Pourmohammadi's remarks." The Aftab Yazd emphasized that the Minister of Justice stated: "The solution to the house arrest issue is calmness." The Etemad newspaper quoted him as saying: "The time for reconsideration on the issue of house arrest has arrived." This newspaper referred to Mostafa Pourmohammadi, Minister of Justice under Hassan Rouhani, who has served as Deputy Minister of Intelligence, Minister of Interior in Ahmadinejad's first government, and then as the head of the "Supreme Audit Court" affiliated with the judiciary, as one of the two "principlist ministers of Rouhani." The Shargh newspaper, emphasizing that the main themes of Mostafa Pourmohammadi's statements were about "house arrest, corruption of Ahmadinejad's government, and the events of 1987," quoted him as saying: "Above all, we must understand that the issue of house arrest is not a legal-judicial issue; undoubtedly, the discussions related to house arrest are considered a political and security matter; this political and security decision occurred after a social struggle; therefore, we cannot explain and clarify the issue of house arrest with legal-judicial foundations." According to this newspaper, Mostafa Pourmohammadi, in a meeting with "some media managers and students" regarding the house arrest of Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi, and Zahra Rahnavard, stated: "It is even possible that the issue of house arrest may not be compatible with existing judicial discussions; however, we must accept that, from a security perspective, house arrest is a product of the specific conditions of that time and must be analyzed and interpreted within its specific parameters." Mostafa Pourmohammadi, who has been Deputy and Assistant Minister of Intelligence for years, also spoke about the "events of 1987 and the executions of that period," stating: "The events of the war must be re-read and analyzed considering the conditions and situation of that time. Until a person is in a state of war, they cannot properly judge the events of those years. The events of 1987 are also not separate from the imposed war, and certainly require sufficient opportunity for further explanation." Pourmohammadi, who was Minister of Interior in Ahmadinejad's first government and later head of the Supreme Audit Court, regarding why he has not raised and discussed "the reports of actions and corruption of the previous government," stated: "I do not accept this issue; because even when I raised the corruption in the previous government, I was always accused of blackening the image, deflecting blame, and engaging in political confrontation. Even the state television censored me. Because the managers of the media believed that my statements would cause blackening and pessimism in society." According to Shargh, Mostafa Pourmohammadi also stated: "On the other hand, I was also accused of corruption, one of which was the formation of a case and heavy charges against me, which related to my time as Minister of Interior; one was the issue of loans from the Ministry of Interior's employees' fund and the other was the issue of buses. In any case, whenever I dealt with any case, a controversy arose for me; now these controversies are sometimes public or private. In the case against me, I did not mention many issues and I will not mention them." The former head of the Supreme Audit Court, referring to the case of "Mohammad Reza Rahimi," Ahmadinejad's first vice president, also stated: "In the case of Rahimi and the insurance matter, I was pressured that if you pursue this issue, we will expose your case." "Three thousand reports of land grabbing" The Citizen newspaper reported on its front page that "three thousand reports of land grabbing" reach the Land Affairs Organization every week. According to this newspaper, Qobad Afshar, head of the Land Affairs Organization, referring to "the public's participation in shortening the hands of land grabbers," stated: "People report two to three thousand violations of land grabbing to the telephone system 131 every week," meaning "more than 400 public reports every day." The Citizen newspaper noted that "the number of cases is increasing every day," stating: "There are cases piling up, making the statistics of land grabbing, mountain grabbing, and sea grabbing reach astronomical and unbelievable figures. After specific reports of large and bizarre land grabs from various areas, from land grabbing in the heart of the capital to the heights of Damavand and from the Hirkan pass to the islands of the Persian Gulf, it seems that the shadow of land grabbers has become so close to people's lives that everyone has started to act to shorten the hands that have shown no mercy to any national lands, protected areas, and even agricultural lands, seizing lands, changing their usage, and building villas or, in the latest reports, constructing villages." This newspaper also quoted Qobad Afshar as saying: "In the short time since the establishment of the 131 system, we have received good information, so that we have been able to base many of our operations on public reports. The statistics of these public reports are increasing, and after the Leader's warnings, they have increased even more. Many of these reports lead to follow-up and results," and "most of the public reports are accurate." The head of the Land Affairs Organization regarding the organization's actions to "prevent land grabbing" also stated: "The government's determination to deal with violations in the land sector is serious, so much so that...