The column ‘Persian Press Review’ features the headlines and leading articles carried by Farsi dailies.

Tuesday’s headlines
IRAN: A new method for the payment of overtime benefits to government employees
ASRAR: Central bank powerless in face of state banks, says central banker
JAVAN: Families of the victims of MKO terror attacks gather in front of the French Embassy in Tehran
FARHIKHTEGAN: By 2011 science and research centers of Azad University will reach over 30, says president of Azad University Abdollah Jasbi
JAHAN-E SANAAT: Total puts gasoline sale to Iran on hold
GOSTARESH-E SANAAT: Sanctions have no effect on raw material supply to Iran’s industries, says an official
HAMSHAHRI: Fate of bank interests entangled with cash subsidies
HADAF-VA EQTESAD: Over 1000 civil servants will be transferred from Tehran by the end of July, says an official in the governor general office
JAHAN-E SANAAT: The plan to cut subsidies has put us in a state of indecision, says Central Bank governor
HADAF-VA EQTESAD: Demands of the private sector from the Central Bank governor
Leading articles
KAYHAN in its editorial entitled “How does Iran calculate?” says that the negotiations over Iran’s nuclear activities have undergone major changes and everything is going to change in the near future.
For over a year the West has been making efforts to impose its preconditions on the negotiations by attempting to change Iran’s political calculations.
UN Resolution 1929 was not issued so that the negotiations over Iran’s nuclear activities could be altered according to the West’s will.
The Westerners announced that they would come back to the negotiating table after the resolution was issued. But the West just envisaged that the resolution would bring Iran to a room with an agreed seating arrangement. Most importantly, the Westerners thought that they could compel Iran to make political calculations and negotiate according to their wishes.
However, Iran is determined to prove to the West that it will not only change its political calculations but also has prepared itself to add new elements to them which the West had never thought of.
There is a surprise in store for the West.
RESALAT in its editorial entitled “Paris paying tribute to terrorists” says that the French government allowed Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) members to hold a political rally and a political meeting in a suburb of Paris on the anniversary of the 7th of Tir (June 28) incident, which was the most infamous terrorist act in the history of the Islamic Revolution of Iran. Granting permission to MKO members to hold a rally and a meeting, which endorsed terrorism and the murder of former Judiciary chief Ayatollah Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti and 72 Iranian officials, once again showed that the French government is a pro-terrorist government. It also shows that the French government is aware of the atrocities committed by the MKO and endorses them. Former U.S. ambassador to the UN John Bolton attended the MKO meeting as an unofficial on representative of the U.S. government, which was the Zionists’ expression of solidarity with the MKO. The MKO members gathered in a suburb of Paris to remind the U.S. and Europe to tighten the sanctions on Iran and to discard respect for human rights and humanitarian considerations. It seems that the U.S. and Europe were in dire need of such a reminder from the MKO.
KHABAR in its editorial by former Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi entitled “Neighbors under the Shadow of Sanctions” has pointed to sanctions move against Iran. Asefi says sanctions not only will affect Iran but its neighbors as well. For example, the volume of Iran-UAE trade stands at $17 billion, meaning that when sanctions put into effect the UAE will also be affected. In general, sanctions could also affect Iran’s ties with its neighbors negatively. Thus, it seems necessary that Iran’s neighbors take effective measures based on their own national interests and fight against unjustified sanctions against Iran.
AFARINESH in a commentary says pressure groups countries seek to impose their views on governments, but such actions never goes beyond the recognized norms and regulations of their country let alone allowing themselves to insult members of their parliaments. The anti-parliament moves last week by extremists needs to be closely scrutinized since such wayward acts, if become a norm, will cause irreparable harm to the country and influence decision-making.