numerous scandals<\/a> he is involved in, he received the Supreme Leader’s support and was reinstalled for the third consecutive year. Khamenei also refused to take a stance on the deadly catastrophic collapse of the 10-story Metropol Complex in Abadan which has become a social crisis in the southern Khuzestan province and beyond.<\/p>\nIn his speech for the MPs, Khamenei warned against factional infighting by saying: “Avoiding retribution and conflict is one of the duties of the parliament. In the current global situation, management has become more difficult and complicated. Members of parliament, the government, the Judiciary, and other bodies should be more vigilant. We must be careful to avoid making mistakes because the enemy is waiting for our mistakes, rather than to rely on its own abilities.”<\/p>\n
\nUPDATE: 2:00 PM CEST<\/span><\/p>\nAmid Nationwide Disgust Against Clerics, Raisi’s Education Minister Calls for More Influence of the Seminary in Iran’s Universities<\/h3>\n
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During a provincial visit to Qom and accompanying the Iranian regime’s president, Minister of Education Mohammad Ali Zolfi Gol said:” If graduate students from the seminary become familiar with university culture and vice versa, academics will also be attracted to the seminary and they will be more effective.”<\/p>\n
To influence young generations, the Iranian regime has systemically passed laws to make sure schools are staffed with state-affiliated cadres. According to official reports, the Ministry of Education now has 4,500 formal teachers with seminary degrees. This procedure for hiring students is based on the regime parliament’s resolution passed in 1986 to employ at least 25,000 male and female seminary students in the country’s education system.<\/p>\n
Statistics show that in 2020, about one million of the country’s university graduates are unemployed, of which 474,000 are men and 538,000 are women.<\/p>\n
\nCalls to Restrict Internet Shows State Media Failure, Former Official Says<\/h3>\n
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Criticizing a column in the state-run Kayhan newspaper, Abbas Abdi, a former intelligence official wrote in the Etemad daily that calls to restrict the internet provide proof that the state monopolized media has failed to gain people’s trust.<\/p>\n
Abdi wrote<\/a>: “Undoubtedly, more than 99% or even 99.99% of the facilities and budget of the country’s official media have been monopolized by IRIB (the state Radio and Television Organization), Kayhan, and dozens of large and small newspapers and governmental or semi-governmental news agencies who favor the status quo. Kayhan hereby acknowledges that the official media has failed vis-a-vis cyberspace.”<\/p>\n“Perhaps the gravest conclusion to be drawn from Kayhan’s piece is to ask yourselves “what you have done in the last 43 years of absolute and unwarranted domination of all the media and educational institutions and why are the people being influenced by other means. Is there a failure bigger than this?” Abdi added. “Despite the monopoly of your own media, you have portrayed the people of Iran as if they are becoming more and more ignorant and not more aware. In fact, this is your perception of the people you want to dominate. This text shows the obvious failure of the official media. Even if you do not want to admit your failure, limiting the internet will not cure the pain.”<\/p>\n
\nCalls for Regime Change in North Iran<\/h3>\n
On Tuesday afternoon, May 24, at 5 pm local time, bystanders and passersby near the Lahijan Lake in the city of Lahijan in the northern Gilan province heard loudspeakers airing slogans of regime change.<\/p>\n
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