We Have Nothing to Sustain Our Lives

"We have nothing to sustain our lives" is the headline of a report by the newspaper Shahrvand about the "situation in the villages of Khuzestan, three weeks after the floods." According to the head of the Agricultural Jihad Organization of Khuzestan, "The floods have caused nearly 481 billion tomans in damages to the agricultural sector in Khuzestan, and many residents of the villages have been displaced and lost their livestock." Soraya Zandiyar, a reporter for Shahrvand, wrote: "The most damages have occurred in agriculture, electricity, roads, rural facilities, rural water supply, livestock and poultry, nomadic housing, school reconstruction, and agricultural equipment, especially in the villages." Fatollah Kermal Chab, one of the villagers in the Shoybiyeh district, pointed out that 140 houses have been destroyed, 70% of which are submerged, stating: "Each village has between 160 to 700 households, and unfortunately, all agricultural fields of wheat, barley, and the villagers' fish ponds have been submerged, and to this day, no action has been taken by the relevant authorities and the government. We have nothing to sustain our lives. Every time we go to the government organizations in the city, we get no results." The newspaper Javan, close to the Revolutionary Guards, quoted Hossein Salami, the deputy commander of the Revolutionary Guards, on its front page, stating: "If America threatens, we will prevent their passage through Hormuz." This newspaper described Salami's remarks in a television program as "important and warning words to America" and wrote: "Our naval forces will be very dangerous for America, which threatens, and if we decide, not a drop of oil will be exported to the east or west of the world." The newspaper Qanoon published statements by Hassan Rouhani at the opening ceremony of the Tehran International Book Fair on its front page, quoting the President of the Islamic Republic as saying: "Criticism is a blessing and critics should not be imprisoned. Of course, no one should insult under the guise of criticism, but those who criticize should not have their books and works caught up in the twists and turns of administrative work." This newspaper wrote: "While the opponents and radical critics of the government are trying to undermine the government's achievements in the nuclear negotiations, the President made the best use of the opening of the 29th International Book Fair to defend the achievements of the 11th government" to "explain the achievements of the JCPOA." According to Qanoon, Hassan Rouhani stated: "We have entered a new scene and a new page," saying: "Whether we like it or not, our world in the post-JCPOA is completely different from our world before the JCPOA." Kayhan also published the same part of Hassan Rouhani's remarks about the JCPOA on its front page but wrote: "It seems that in the 11th government, all roads lead to the dead end of the JCPOA." The newspaper Iran, close to the government, highlighted another part of Hassan Rouhani's remarks on Tuesday, quoting him as saying: "We must guarantee the security and freedom of writers." According to this newspaper, Hassan Rouhani emphasized that "the post-JCPOA space will be realized through books, thought, and reflection; everything is not about economy and politics, and culture is at the top of the matters," stating: "The more we delegate tasks to civil institutions and publishers, the better the work will be done; the government should not interfere in everything and should only be a planner." Soroush Pourjavad, the former head of the University Publishing Center, in an editorial for the Iran newspaper titled "Criticism in the Shadow of Intellectual Security," recalled Hassan Rouhani's remarks during the 2013 presidential election, stating that he "did not want a military and army spirit to prevail in the country. He does not want the image of the Islamic Republic of Iran to be a military, governmental, and harsh image." The editorial writer of the Iran newspaper, referring to the fact that "lawfulness and rationality mean allowing free thought and ideas, which was, in fact, the most important ideal that the revolutionaries had in 1979," wrote: "If the unfortunate events that occurred in the first decade of the revolution, including the devastating war imposed on us, had not happened, undoubtedly the path that this revolution has taken would have been different." Nasrollah Pourjavad also wrote: Now what "Hassan Rouhani wants is a return to that spirit of freedom and intellectual security that existed in the early years of the revolution, and his remarks at the opening of the book fair were, in fact, an interpretation of a sentence he made during his electoral debate. He is a lawyer and seeks criticism and rationality, criticism that can only be created in the shadow of intellectual security." The newspaper Hamdeli reported on the "fears and hopes of three credentials" in the 10th Parliament, stating: "In addition to Minou Khalighi, whose approach to the issuance of her credentials by the Ministry of Interior is still unclear, 'Nader Qazipour, the elected representative of Urmia, and Allahyar Malekshahi, the elected representative of Kuhdasht, have their credentials at risk.'" This newspaper pointed out that "the approval of the representatives' credentials" will be on the agenda in the early days of the 10th Parliament so that each representative can approve the others, writing: "Minou Khalighi is now the most famous female representative of the 10th Parliament, and her political future is currently in the hands of the Ministry of Interior. She still has a chance of representation, as the President has counted her among the women who have entered the Parliament," and on Tuesday, Mohammad Baqer Nobakht, the government spokesman, announced that "the government believes and has legal documentation that the review of the representatives' credentials should be expressed by the elected representatives of the 10th Parliament." The newspaper Hamdeli also referred to the credentials of Nader Qazipour, mentioning a video clip of the elected representative of Urmia in which he "made insulting remarks about women and girls in society that even drew the objection of conservative women in the 9th Parliament," and for this reason, his credentials "are at risk." Another elected representative whose credentials are at risk is Allahyar Malekshahi, and Ali Shakouri Rad, the Secretary-General of the Unity Party, stated about this electoral district: "Reformists supported Mohammad Azadbakhsh in this district, while Allahyar Malekshahi was the candidate of the Moderation and Development Party," and during the voting, "many ballot boxes in the Kuhdasht electoral district were tampered with, and the governor acted impartially in the election process, which ultimately led to the dismissal of the governor." Meanwhile, the newspaper Etemad, in its Thursday issue, while "revisiting the story of the credentials of Mohammad Akbarzadeh," the elected representative of Nishapur in the third parliamentary elections, wrote: The legal analysis of the matter regarding the approval of the credentials of the elected representative of Nishapur in the third Parliament is that "if the Ministry of Interior issues credentials without the permission and signature of the Guardian Council, no authority except the Parliament can hold him accountable, which will lead to two outcomes; either the credentials will be approved or rejected." Rezvaneh Rezai Pour, a reporter for Etemad, while quoting "the detailed negotiations of the third Parliament" and parts of the report of "the investigation commission and the approval of the representatives' credentials" written on June 19, 1988, noted that three issues regarding "Mohammad Akbarzadeh, the elected representative of Nishapur in the third Parliament" were raised in objection: The first objection was "failure to register at the appointed time," the second objection was "the status of military service, which was unclear regarding him," and the third objection was that Akbarzadeh's credentials "did not reach the election supervision board and the Guardian Council," but the Ministry of Interior issued credentials for the elected representative of Nishapur. According to Etemad, the investigation commission of the credentials in the third Parliament, however, examined these objections in detail and requested explanations from all supporters and opponents, ultimately deciding to approve the credentials of Mohammad Akbarzadeh, the elected representative of Nishapur in the third Parliament. The Etemad newspaper noted the legal significance and similarity of the case of Mohammad Akbarzadeh's credentials in the third Parliament with Minou Khalighi in the 10th Parliament, stating that what exists in this case and can be related to Minou Khalighi's case is "the lack of signature and seal" of the credentials by the Guardian Council, while in the report of the investigation commission of the third Parliament regarding the reason for the Ministry of Interior's issuance of credentials for the elected representative of Nishapur, it was stated: "The signature of the credentials is not a right, but a duty of the observers of the Guardian Council," and "the lack of signature on the credentials, despite the necessary conditions, cannot prevent the review." Elias Hazrati, the elected representative of Tehran, also wrote in a note in the Etemad newspaper: "The expectation of the representatives of Parliament from the Ministry of Interior and the respected government is that, according to the election law, the credentials of the elected representative of Isfahan should be presented to the Parliament just like in the third Parliament, which was questionable." The newspaper Shahrvand emphasized on its front page that "a girl changed the university entrance exam law," writing: "Fatemeh Karimi is a girl who obtained a ruling from the Administrative Justice Court to annul the regulation regarding the '25% impact of the average of the third year of high school on the university entrance exam' by filing a complaint." The newspaper Sharq on its front page titled "The Ninth Parliament Against the Sixth Development Plan" wrote that "the bill on fixed provisions of the plan was approved in the Parliament with numerous changes and rapidly." This newspaper warned about "the danger of changing the sixth development plan in the Parliament," writing: "The bill regulating some provisions of the country's development plans, which was submitted to the Parliament by the government on November 5 with 50 articles, aimed to permanently approve some general provisions of national development to prevent their recurrence in five-year plans, was approved yesterday in a different form and with a rapid pace in the Parliament." Mehdi Ghadimi in a report for the newspaper Sharq pointed out that "alongside the 50 articles proposed by the government, 74 articles were also added by representatives in the commission," and "among these, some of the added articles, sometimes with their clauses and notes, are as extensive as a new law." Sharq emphasized that the inclusion of some articles within the provisions of the development plans has also raised the voice of representatives such as Ahmad Tavakoli, to the extent that he shouted from the Parliament podium on Tuesday in response to the declaration of the day marking the beginning of the Imamate of Imam Mahdi within the added provisions of the national development plan: 'By God, even Imam Mahdi would not be pleased with this.'" The prosecutor of Varamin, in an interview with Farnaz Estadanabari, a reporter for the newspaper Farhikhtegan, regarding the current status of the case of the murder of Setayesh Gharishi, stated: "For now, the forensic opinion is confidential." Abolqasem Morad Talab emphasized, however, that "if you ask my opinion, I would say that there was an assault. If it were up to me, I would issue the indictment today considering the assault, but regarding the forensic opinion, we must wait until they complete their investigations, and after that, until the case goes to the criminal court, we must keep the opinion confidential, but my opinion is the same." The prosecutor of Varamin also confirmed the attribution of the murder suspect's account on Instagram but rejected the news published about his suicide attempt four months before the murder of Setayesh, stating: "At the beginning of the investigation, we also examined this issue, but it was not true." Meanwhile, the investigator of this case also stated regarding the possibility of interviewing the murderer of Setayesh Gharishi, emphasizing that "he is not allowed to be interviewed," told the Farhikhtegan newspaper: "The suspect does not see. Did you make such a fuss about the seventy-year-old man who assaulted in Mashhad?" The newspaper Kayhan, however, quoted Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi as saying: "The murder case that occurred in Varamin sends the message that families must have more oversight over the activities of teenagers on social networks and also when they are home alone." This newspaper then accused the government and the Ministry of Communications of being responsible for "the blood of a young girl being shed in one of the deprived areas of the capital" by not filtering social networks, even writing: "How many more Setayeshes must fall victim before the government and the Ministry of Communications wake up?"