Iranian press review: IRGC threatens to hit multiple targets in Israel, Gulf, Central Asia

IRGC will increase threats in opposition to Israel and its Arab allies

The Jam-e Jam day by day, affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), reported that the IRGC would hit a number of targets in Israel, the Gulf, and international locations in Central Asia internet hosting US navy bases if Israel assaults Iran’s nuclear websites.

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Beneath the headline: “who’s the ultimate winner?” the day by day made a comparability between the navy energy of Iran and Israel.

The day by day’s supply for this text was knowledge offered by International Hearth Energy (GFP), in line with which Iran was ranked 14 and Israel 20 for navy power in 2021. 

It additionally urged that Iran’s ballistic missiles arsenal might be a supply of navy superiority over Israel.

“Iran has missiles that may hit targets in a big geographical space, from China and the east of Kazakhstan to the south of India and Egypt,” the day by day wrote.

“Israel may use navy bases in international locations round Iran. Naze’at missiles may hit these bases. As well as, anti-ship cruise missiles and short-range rockets may destroy different targets [in the region].”

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In the meantime, on Monday, a high-ranking IRGC commander, Main Basic Gholam Ali Rashid, stated that in response to a possible assault by Israel, Iran would hit the bases from which the assaults originated and the path to the airspace used for the raid.

Since a report was revealed about Israel and US joint drills to destroy Iran’s nuclear services, the IRGC media have brazenly mentioned the elite pressure’s potential targets within the area.

Final week, Tehran Instances revealed a map of IRGC’s potential targets inside Israel. 

Iran restores larger schooling ban on activists

President Ebrahim Raisi’s hardline administration reinstated laws applied by former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to ban scholar activists from finishing their research at universities.

“Final week, Raisi’s authorities took again a draft of regulation in regards to the rights of all residents to larger schooling, referred to as ‘prohibiting the star crossing of the political college students’,” the Sharq day by day reported. 

In Iran, college students barred from college schooling are colloquially referred to as “starred college students” as a result of their names are star-crossed by college safety workplaces to stop them from registering at first of every semester. 

This course of started when Ahmadinejad took workplace in 2005.

Based on the Sharq day by day, about 1,000 college college students who handed the doorway exams to start their grasp’s research had been blacklisted by the intelligence companies throughout the first time period of Ahmadinejad’s presidency (2005-9).

Following the 2009 rebellion, the quantity dramatically elevated, and plenty of scholar activists had been pressured to depart the nation and stay in exile.

After Ahmadinejad’s two phrases, extra reasonable president Hassan Rouhani proposed a draft of a regulation to the parliament about equal rights to larger schooling. Nonetheless, even throughout his time, scholar activists had been barred from larger schooling and had been focused.

Iranian ladies promote hair to make ends meet

The Khorasan day by day reported that the variety of poor ladies promoting their hair has elevated in Iran’s second-largest metropolis, Mashhad.

Based on the day by day, younger ladies are the main hair sellers to posh magnificence salons; nevertheless, even ladies of their 60s commerce their hair for as little as $7 to cowl their medical bills.

Increased costs can be paid for the lengthy hair belonging to younger women. For instance, the day by day reported {that a} younger mom acquired $70 for her 8-year-old daughter’s lengthy blond hair.

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“Through the 4 months that I have been buying and selling hair, I’ve seen a lot poverty and helplessness that now I really feel depressed,” a hairdresser advised the day by day.

“Buying and selling lengthy and thick hair is an effective enterprise, however you see painful scenes. Most of those that promote their hairs are from the underprivileged suburbs, and generally they’re so poor that they may not take excellent care of their hair, and I am unable to pay them a lot cash.”

The day by day spoke with individuals who stated that they used the cash from promoting hair to purchase medication, pay the registration charges for college, purchase residence home equipment for newly married {couples}, and canopy on a regular basis residing bills. 

Tehran-Cairo dispute over avenue names

The names of two streets within the capital cities of Iran and Egypt had been stated to be the explanation for a impasse in political relations between the 2 international locations, native media reported. 

Regardless of makes an attempt to revive political ties, Tehran and Cairo don’t have any embassies in one another’s capitals. Some imagine that streets named after Khalid Ahmed Showky El Islambouli in Tehran and Farah Pahlavi in Cairo have been an impediment to rebuilding ties.

On Monday, a member of Tehran’s metropolis council Naser Amani stated that Cairo had requested Tehran to alter the identify of Khaled Islambouli avenue in central Tehran. In the meantime, Iran urged Cairo to rename Farah avenue within the Egyptian capital in return.

Neither Tehran nor Cairo have to this point modified the names of the streets.

Islambouli, who was killed by firing squad in 1982, assassinated Egypt’s former president Anwar Sadat on 6 October 1981. 

Pahlavi was the third spouse of Iran’s final king, the Shah, who transferred tens of millions of {dollars} to his accounts outdoors Iran earlier than being toppled by the revolutionaries.

Following Iran’s 1979 revolution, relations between the 2 international locations deteriorated quickly as Cairo rejected Tehran’s requests handy over the Shah who had sought refuge in Egypt.

*Iranian press overview is a digest of stories experiences not independently verified as correct by Center East Eye