VP files lawsuits against MPs protesting administration’s policies

According to the ILNA news agency, Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi has lodged complaints against several MPs who are known for being critical of the administration’s policies. Principlist MP Ali Motahhari, who has recently received the president’s official complaint, is also one of the lawmakers against whom Rahimi has filed a complaint.
No political activist held in jail, as political crime is not defined!
According to Khabar Online, MP Mohammad Dehqan of the Majlis Judicial and Legal Committee has made a comment about political activists held in jail. Dehqan has asserted that the political activists who are imprisoned on political charges can not be called ‘political prisoner’, because the term ‘political prisoner’ has not been yet defined by lawmakers. The lawmaker has also said some MPs tried to present a proposal for the definition of ‘political prisoner,’ but in the light of the current political situation the examination of the proposal was put on hold until the calm returns to the country’s political atmosphere.
Administration has not met its commitments, so bus fare shot up by 400%!
Hamzeh Shakib, a member of Tehran City Council, has said the administration has not allocated the budget needed for public transportation in Tehran, so the municipality was forced to raise the price of bus tickets. The bus fare has recently risen by 400 percent. The councilor has said either the administration should pay its share for public transportation or people themselves should pay extra cost for services.
Senior clergy censures administration for issuing unclear reports
A senior member of the Assembly of Experts Mohammad, Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, has criticized the administration’s reports on its activities and achievements as too general. In a recent meeting with a female administration official, Mesbah Yazdi said her report is too broad. Mesbah Yazdi, who is known to be an advocate of Ahmadinejad’s policies, sarcastically said if the achievements mentioned in the report had really been made, all problems facing the country should have been resolved.