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Local News and Views from Iran – The “Local” section is dedicated to political news stories from Iran that do not fall under any of the other main categories, including municipal issues, special interests groups, party politics, and statements from religious figures.

Hard News

Iran holds funeral for IRGC commander killed in Israel’s assault on Syria

Emad Askarieh -
A funeral procession has been held for a senior Iranian military commander who was recently martyred in an airstrike carried out by an Israeli helicopter on Syria’s occupied Golan Heights.
Local

What Zarif told reporters and fellow commuters on the subway

Emad Askarieh -
“I wouldn’t get involved in things I have no knowledge about. Diplomacy is the only thing I know,” said Foreign Minister Zarif.
Crisis

Iran denounces acts of terror, blasphemy

Emad Askarieh -
President Rouhani has said that Iran condemns terror, violence and extremism under the pretext of defending religions and insults to religions in the name of defending freedom.
Crisis

Iranians hold rally on insulting cartoon outside French embassy

Emad Askarieh -
The protesters chanted ‘Islam will be victorious’ and carried placards in condemnation of the cartoons insulting the Prophet Muhammad.
Local

Welfare Organization has built 68,000 apartments for welfare families in 10 months

Emad Askarieh -
The families who have more than one disabled member and those run by women have priority.
Education

Ahmadinejad’s unauthorized university up and running

Emad Askarieh -
Unconfirmed reports suggest that the University of Iranians has started to admit students in defiance of the science ministry’s revocation of its permit.
Hard News

Over one ton of narcotics seized in Saravan

Emad Askarieh -
Acting on a tip-off about imminent shipment of narcotics across the border into Iran, border guards seized a haul of 1,460 kilograms of opium in southern Iran.
Judiciary

House arrest is in line with the law: Official

Emad Askarieh -
Those who question the house arrest are the ones who either have not read the law or do not understand it, said the head of the Administrative Justice Court.
Hard News

President urges nuclear negotiators to adopt logical attitude

Emad Askarieh -
We are all from one single country, living under a single flag with a single Constitution and a single leadership. And we all seek a single objective which is national prosperity, said President Rouhani.
Hard News

Biggest ever narcotic drug consignment seized in Fars Province

Emad Askarieh -
A haul of 7-ton opium along with 12 kg of heroin planted in a cement bulker truck was seized.
Local

The controversy a speech on the floor caused

Emad Askarieh -
Newspapers and MPs with different political leanings have reacted differently to Ali Motahari’s comments that sparked a brawl in parliament.
Local

Mr. Rouhani, admit that you don’t know the US

IFP Editorial Staff -
Dariush Sajjadi, a reformist blogger, challenges Rouhani’s call for a referendum, saying people’s direct vote will do little to make a breakthrough nuclear deal a reality.
Americas

Common enemies use oil as political tool: Leader to Maduro

Emad Askarieh -
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says enemies are using oil as a political tool to exert pressure on oil exporting countries.
Local

Signs of divergence in a conference on convergence

Emad Askarieh -
A reformist daily says a gathering which was originally meant to secure convergence among principlists seems to have revealed cracks in their ranks.
Local

Principlists eye convergence in preparation for victory in 10th legislative elections

Emad Askarieh -
Principlists get together to examine ways of securing much-needed unity for parliamentary elections expected to be held in early 2016.
Hard News

Divisive moves linked to Western spy agencies: Leader

Emad Askarieh -
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the enemy’s intelligence agencies are behind divisive plots hatched against Muslims.
Local

Points which we missed on ‘referendum’ proposal

Emad Askarieh -
Mehdi Fazaeli has taken a look at the Constitution and the conditions in which it allows a referendum, stressing the inviolability of the Constitution.
Hard News

Iran must be immunized against sanctions: Ayatollah Khamenei

Emad Askarieh -
The Leader said that the only way that Iran could counter enemy’s power is for the country to be immunized against sanctions.
Local

Interaction, independence and dignity are our ideals

IFP Editorial Staff -
Seyyed Reza Akrami, a statesman, elaborates on President Rouhani’s comments that our ideals are not tied to centrifuges.
Local

What is the president concerned about?

IFP Editorial Staff -
A former Iranian ambassador to the UN elaborates on the problems the Rouhani government faces and the reasons why the president is concerned.
Local

Reactions by reformists and principlists to Rouhani’s call for referendum

Emad Askarieh -
President Rouhani's proposal for referendum on key state questions has drawn strong reactions from political activists, reformist and principlist alike.
Hard News

President Rouhani for referendum on significant topics

Emad Askarieh -
Under the Constitution, as for major economic, social, political and cultural issues, instead of having the suggested changes to the law approved in parliament, they could be put to a referendum, said President Rouhani.
Local

Iranian survival does not hinge on a deal with the West

Emad Askarieh -
Gholamali Haddad Adel says the Iranian survival does not hinge on a deal with the West and unity holds the key to principlist success.
Local

Court orders 7th floor of the cell phone hub of the capital removed

Emad Askarieh -
The Court of Administrative Justice finds the addition to Alaeddin Shopping Center illegal and orders it demolished.
Local

President Rouhani is to bring down the curtain on illegal wiretaps

Emad Askarieh -
To safeguard civic rights, the recent bill presented to parliament by President Rouhani seeks to end unlawful intelligence gathering on members of the public.
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