Two Teenagers Paraded in City for Breaking Glass

Vahidollah Shoja Pourian, a former member of parliament and current member of Tehran City Council, criticized the 'inaction and somewhat indifference of the President' regarding the disqualification of candidates in his editorial in the Hamdeli newspaper titled 'Mr. President, Reformists Are Not a Minority'. He stated that aside from a few public statements by Hassan Rouhani regarding the disqualifications, 'no practical and effective action has been taken by the government to solve this issue, and the results of the candidates' and government's follow-ups have not changed the situation.' The editorial emphasized that 'the reason for the President's inaction stems from viewing the strong and extensive reform movement as merely a political minority.' Rouhani, in his remarks regarding the disqualifications, 'considered the reform movement to have a base of about 10 million and deemed them deserving of representation in parliament.' However, contrary to Rouhani's view, 'reformists are not a political minority; rather, reformism is a dominant paradigm and discourse, a deep-rooted and influential intellectual movement among the people and within society and its elites, which the majority of the Iranian nation supports. Evidence of this is that whenever the majority of the Iranian people have participated in elections, the final result has been the success of reformists and the victory of this discourse.' Shoja Pourian pointed to the rights enshrined in the Constitution, stating that 'the President, as a representative of all the people of Iran and elected by the majority of the residents of this country, must recognize this right and utilize all legal tools to uphold it.' Furthermore, the protection and safeguarding of these national rights 'requires powerful defenders, not mere eloquent advisors; it requires action, not just words and speeches.' The Etelaat newspaper reported on its front page about 'preparations for the reformists' list,' stating that 'the elders of reform have begun intensive meetings to compile the final list of candidates for Tehran.' Despite the reformists' complaints about the qualification review process, the newspaper noted that with the conclusion of the Guardian Council's final review and the announcement of the names of approved reformist candidates, they remained committed and began finalizing their electoral list from Tuesday afternoon. Newspapers close to the principlists, including Resalat and Vatan-e-Emruz, reported on their Wednesday issue about a press conference held by Gholamali Haddad Adel, the spokesperson for the principlist coalition, stating that 'the principlists' slogan in the parliamentary elections is livelihood, security, and progress.' The Resalat newspaper reported on the process of determining the 30-member list of the principlist coalition in Tehran, quoting Gholamali Haddad Adel, who stated that initially a working group reviewed about 190 known principlist candidates in Tehran, 'in the second stage, we reached a list of 128, which after review by the central council, resulted in a list of 54, then 45, and finally a list of 30.' The Vatan-e-Emruz newspaper referred to this coalition as the 'great coalition,' noting that 'whereas previously, both in the ninth parliamentary elections and the eleventh presidential elections, the disunity among principlists hindered their cohesion and resulted in the waste of the revolutionary movement's capacity, now all principlist capacities stand by the wisdom of their scholars and have formed a great coalition.' Mahsa Jazini in Shargh newspaper, while introducing the figures on the principlist coalition list, described this coalition as 'principlists minus moderates' and emphasized that the principlist electoral list 'has no room for independents and moderates,' stating that with the publication of the 30-member list of principlists in Tehran, 'principlism has veered to its farthest right.' The Tejarat newspaper reported on its front page that in the twenty-fifth session of the court case involving Babak Zanjani and oil corruption during the previous government, the Tehran prosecutor requested the 'execution' of this oil billionaire. Gholamreza Tajgardoon, the head of the Budget and Planning Commission of the ninth parliament, emphasized in an interview with Shargh newspaper that 'Babak Zanjani is not an individual; he is a network,' and 'I constantly fear that at the end of this trial, Babak Zanjani will be executed; because in that case, the main network will no longer be identifiable.' This parliament member pointed out that 'the most significant corruption occurred during the sanctions period,' stating, 'During the sanctions, those who were opportunistic and had strong lobbying in the government did what they wanted.' The Jahan Sanat newspaper reported that while the declining industrial growth this year has raised concerns among producers, Masoud Khansari, the head of the Tehran Chamber of Commerce, announced in a press conference on Tuesday a '25% decrease in industrial growth in Fall 94.' In addition, the Jahan Sanat newspaper published a report about 'two children paraded in the city for breaking a shop window in Sari,' stating that these two teenagers had broken the windows of 12 shops on Farhang Street in Sari using a slingshot. Bahman Keshavarz, a lawyer and legal expert, told Jahan Sanat that 'there is no punishment in our laws for parading in the city,' and 'it is unlikely that such actions would be acceptable or justifiable in the present era and in the judicial system of the Islamic Republic.' The Shahrvand newspaper reported the formation of a special committee to investigate the incident at the Saadat Abad car wash in the Tehran City Council, stating that 'the immunities of the Tehran municipality are the cause of the recurrence of incidents like the attack on the car wash.' An article titled 'Electoral Coalition Against the JCPOA' in the Hamdeli newspaper discusses the reasons for 'a new wave of principlist attacks on the nuclear agreement.' The newspaper stated that 'even widespread disqualifications have not been able to give some principlists and radical factions hope for victory in the upcoming elections, and the implementation of the nuclear agreement has also influenced this despair. Therefore, a new wave of attacks on this agreement has begun, claiming its ineffectiveness and lack of impact.' Jalal Barzegar, a journalist, advised internal critics of the JCPOA in a note in the Etelaat newspaper to 'stop playing the unfair game of cement.' The writer of the Etelaat newspaper noted that 'the opposing parties did not want the Arak heavy water reactor to remain, and during the negotiations, through wise resistance and the proposals of Iranian scientists, they were forced to accept and even agree to redesign and upgrade it,' stating that 'the Westerners wanted the previous core to be removed from the country or destroyed, but in the negotiations, it was ultimately decided that cement would be injected into the channels where the fuel rods were located, so that the previous core would remain as a case study in Iran,' but now 'the opponents of the JCPOA are so pleased with the attraction of the term cement that they insist on their unfair game, ignoring these realities.' Meanwhile, Kayhan newspaper reported that Mohammad Mohammadian, the head of the 'Representative Office' of the Supreme Leader in universities, stated in a gathering of three thousand members of the Basij Student Organization that 'the American enthusiasts inside intend to introduce revolutionary forces as extremist and reckless under the pretext of the JCPOA and attribute all the country's problems to radicalism.'