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\u201cIranian Authorities Tighten Their Grip On Daycare Centers,\u201d<\/a> Radio Farda, September 6, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran\u2019s National Information Network Not Based on Censorship: Official,\u201d<\/a> IFP, September 6, 2020.\u00a0\u00a0When you read this story, your realize that based on Iran\u2019s history over 40 years that every media source, every one, will be censored\u2014just the opposite of what the headline declares.\u00a0 \u201cIn remarks at a televised interview, director of Iran\u2019s National Centre of Cyberspace, Abul-Hassan Firoozabadi, said the National Information Network (NIN) is not based upon censorship and will not carry out any filtering policy unless the platforms violate the law and their illegal activities would cause cultural, social, political and security problems. Like all other international networks, web contents in the Iranian Internet or the NIN will be accessible in accordance with the country\u2019s regulations and the network is not going to censor anything at the beginning, he added. \u201cThere is no plan to shut down any foreign network or platform, unless the platform disobeys the Iranian law and causes widespread destructive security effects,\u201d he noted.\u201d\u00a0 These arguments\u2014that media violates Iranian law and poses security threats\u2014are made all the time in Iranian courts at present.<\/p>\n

\u201cRouhani Is No Moderate,\u201d<\/a> Isaac Schorr, National Review, September 6, 2020.<\/p>\n

If Iran follows its pattern, of accusing Israel or the U.S. of so many attacks, then this announcement by the AEOI means that Iran does not think Israel or the U.S. prosecuted the attack.\u00a0 Atomic Energy Organization of Iran spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi just said the July incident at Natanz was \u201can act of sabotage\u201d and the \u201cculprits\u201d and \u201cincentives [motivations] and methods\u201d are known. In short, Iran has full knowledge of what happened.\u00a0 See \u201cIran claims it\u2019s identified saboteurs behind blast at nuclear site,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, September 6, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran: We will proudly continue helping Syria,\u201d<\/a> Tehran Times, September 6, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran has what is probably the most confusing currency system in the world, and it will soon become more so, as it says it will alter the appearance of the zeroes on one of its notes. Although the currency of record is the rial, that term is hardly used in trade and commerce. Instead, transactions are conducted in tomans. One toman is equal to 10 rials. A tourist blog, ariamedtour.com, gives this example: If you go to buy a bottle of water and ask how much it is, the seller will tell you that it is 1,500 tomans, meaning that you should pay 15,000 rials. That\u2019s not all. It also has two systems of bank notes: Rials are issued in 10 denominations from 100 to 100,000 rials. To complicate things further, there are Iran cheques in the amounts of 500,000 and 1 million rials. The central bank used to permit major banks to print their own bank notes known as \u201ccash cheques.\u201d They looked like official bank notes and could function as cash for a year. The two types were Iran cheques that could be cashed in any financial institution and cash cheques that could be cashed only at the issuing bank. In 2008 the central bank halted that practice, and took over the issue of Iran cheques. In May, after extended dawdling, Iran\u2019s rampant inflation (100,000 rials is now $2.38) led Parliament to slash four zeroes off the rial and change its name to the toman. One toman will equal 10,000 rials. The Financial Times quotes Abdolnaser Hemmati, governor of the Central Bank as saying on the bank\u2019s website, \u201cThe parliament is in favor of the currency revaluation plans \u2026 the color of four zeros will be different on new banknotes printed by the CBI to show that we are in a transitional period.\u201d For a transition period of up to two years, both the toman and the rial will be legal tender.\u201d\u00a0 This is from \u201cIran to introduce currency re-denomination in tomans,\u201d<\/a> Arthur Friedberg, Coin World, September 6, 2020.<\/p>\n

Totally improper, and a violation of human rights.\u00a0 \u201cIran airs televised confession of wrestler after Trump tweet,\u201d<\/a> WNEP, AP, September 6, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran to Extend Range of Air-Launched Cruise Missiles,\u201d<\/a> Tasnim, September 6, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran exports tea to India, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Canada, Australia, Spain, the Czech Republic, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.\u201d\u00a0 See \u201cIran\u2019s annual tea output expected to reach 130m tons,\u201d<\/a> Tehran Times, September 6, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran Among World\u2019s Top 5 Military Speedboat Producers,\u201d<\/a> IFP, September 6, 2020.<\/p>\n

Not inspiring, and may not be tested enough.\u00a0 \u201cIran, Russia to jointly produce COVID-19 vaccine,\u201d<\/a> India TV News, September 6, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIranian Authorities Tighten Their Grip On Daycare Centers,\u201d<\/a> Radio Farda, September 6, 2020.\u00a0What could this be?\u00a0 In the past, the State Welfare Organization controlled preschools.\u00a0 But after the Supreme Leader on Sep. 3 expressed concern over local daycare centers and their curriculum (they allow mixed dancing and swimming for the young children), Iran\u2019s Ministry of Education will oversee kindergartens and nurseries.\u00a0 Next up: \u201cFollowing the recent amendment of school and university textbooks, Iranian authorities are also set to change kindergarten textbooks’ content.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIranian Authorities Tighten Their Grip On Daycare Centers,\u201d Radio Farda, September 6, 2020. \u201cIran\u2019s National Information Network Not Based on Censorship: Official,\u201d IFP, September 6, 2020.\u00a0\u00a0When you read this story, your realize that based on Iran\u2019s history over 40 years that every media source, every one, will be censored\u2014just the opposite of what the headline … <\/p>\n

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