A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on Jan. 19

Appointment of a deputy interior minister months after the seat was vacated was the front-page news of many dailies on Monday. Also dominating the front pages of several newspapers were the martyrdom of a number of Hezbollah combatants in an Israeli raid on Syria, and the amount of annual bonuses laborers will receive at the end of the year.

 

Abrar: “For now, there are no orders to dissolve any bank,” said an observer member of the Money and Credit Council. [His comments came after the Central Bank of Iran reported that one bank and a number of financial institutes are operating without proper permits.]

 

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Afarinesh: The Supreme Court has upheld the main part of the ruling issued in the case of former first vice-president [Mohammad Reza Rahimi under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad].

Afarinesh: A ceremony has been held in honor of Mohammad Ali Keshavarz whose artistic career has spanned six decades.

 

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Aftab-e Yazd: Mohammad Hossein Moghimi has been named deputy interior minister for political affairs.

Aftab-e Yazd: The amount of lead in poultry is 47 percent more than the standard level.

Aftab-e Yazd: Between 2009 and 2013 some 90,000 luxury cars were imported.

 

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Arman-e Emrooz: The Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs has announced that a number of individuals who have committed major sport offenses have been arrested.

 

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Asia: Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu arrives in Tehran on Monday.

 

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Asr-e Iranian: “After the go-ahead of parliament, water, electricity and gas offered to households with low consumption will be free,” said an MP.

 

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Asrar: “As many as 35 million people are exposed to pollution,” said the director of the Environment Protection Organization.

 

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Ebtekar: “Efforts to eliminate reformism [from the political equation] are useless,” said Mohammad Reza Aref, a senior reformist leader.

Ebtekar: “Hurling insults at Muslims will only render them more defiant,” said Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani.

 

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Eghtesad-e Pooya: The volume of trade between Iran and Iraq has hit the $12 billion mark.

 

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Etemad: “Nuclear negotiators are moving ahead within the framework [the establishment] has set,” said Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior advisor to the Supreme Leader.

Etemad: “I am closer to Mr. Hashemi [Rafsanjani] than to my father,” Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ali Jannati said.

 

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Ettela’at: A gun-running ring has been busted in Hormozgan Province.

Ettela’at: The Supreme Cultural Revolution Council has met to discuss the explosive growth of higher education in the country.

 

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Hemayat: “The West will pay a dear price for hurling insults at the Prophet Muhammad,” said the Iranian attorney general.

 

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Iran: To mark the Clean Air Day, Iranian children have staged a symbolic rally.

 

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Javan: The son of Imad Mughniyeh [a senior member of Lebanon’s Islamic Jihad Organization and Hezbollah] and a number of Hezbollah combatants were martyred in a Zionist operation in support of terrorists in Syria. Jihad Mughniyeh has joined his father.

 

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Kayhan: Students will gather outside the French embassy in Tehran at 15:00 local time on Monday to protest against the French government’s support for sacrilegious measures of Charlie Hebdo.

 

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Sepid: “As many as 47 million Iranians have unhealthy eating habits,” said a deputy health minister.

 

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Shahrvand: “Iran is the Rhinoplasty capital of the world,” said the secretary of an international body contouring congress.

 

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Siasat-e Rooz: “We can sink a US aircraft carrier,” said the commander of the naval forces of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps.

 

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Tehran Times: First Iranian-made electric car unveiled.

Tehran Times: Iran reiterates support for Iraq in fighting terrorists.