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By Kayhan Life Staff Sept. 2 - An Islamic Republic

By Kayhan Life Staff
Sept. 2 - An Islamic Republic parliamentary committee is investigating the Ministry of Agriculture Jihad to determine whether economic corruption linked to the import of livestock feed and other agricultural inputs has cost the public purse as much as 2 quadrillion rials ($1 billion).

The Ministry of Agriculture Jihad allowed preferential government foreign exchange rates to be applied to the import of livestock feed and other agricultural goods. However, after the products entered the country, they were reportedly sold on the free market at prices up to four times higher than their original cost.

The ministry is now resisting a request from the committee in charge of investigating and inspecting the Ministry of Agriculture to provide a list of companies that imported these goods. The refusal has raised concerns about the possible existence of a corruption and rent-seeking network — referring to profits or benefits obtained above normal market value — within the ministry’s upper levels.

The Tehran-based Tabnak news website reported on Aug. 31 on the alleged $1 billion corruption scandal. It said the Ministry of Agriculture Jihad’s response to a request from Iran’s General Inspection Organization (GIO, affiliated with the Judiciary) for a list of importers had exposed what it termed a massive foreign-exchange rent-seeking scheme involving livestock feed and other agricultural inputs.

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By Roshanak Astaraki (@roshanak.astaraki) Sept. 2

By Roshanak Astaraki (@roshanak.astaraki)
Sept. 2 - The United States’s “Economic D-Day” — also known as Operation Economic Outcast, a campaign designed to maximize sanctions pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran and deepen its economic isolation — could prove to be the missing link in the U.S. campaign to bring down the regime.

Even before the campaign was officially launched, the Iranian currency fell to its lowest-ever level of nearly 2,060,000 rials per U.S. dollar. Persistent efforts by the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran (CBI) failed to lift it to 2,000,000 rials per dollar.

Although the dollar functions as a thermometer of Iran’s economy, and its unprecedented surge highlights the powerful impact of the U.S.’s economic campaign against the regime, other factors have also become strikingly apparent: a decline in Iran’s oil exports to China and rising prices across various markets, including the automobile market, in less than a week.

The new economic pressures are operating on three key fronts:

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By Nazanine Nouri Sept. 2 - Norway’s new King Haak

By Nazanine Nouri
Sept. 2 - Norway’s new King Haakon VIII has taken an oath of allegiance to the Constitution in a ceremony presided over by Masud Gharahkhani — the Iranian-born President of the Norwegian Parliament (Storting), who ranks second only to the monarch in the country’s official hierarchy.

Norway’s King Harald V passed away on Sept. 1, paving the way for his son Haakon to take over the throne. In Norway, a new monarch must swear allegiance to the Constitution in a ceremony officiated by the President of the Parliament.

During the ceremony, King Haakon VIII declared: “Honorable President of the Storting, I promise and swear that I will govern the Kingdom of Norway in accordance with its Constitution and Laws; so help me God, the Almighty and Omniscient.”

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DUBAI, Sept 2 (Reuters) – A car struck a gathering

DUBAI, Sept 2 (Reuters) – A car struck a gathering of supporters of Iran‘s government and armed forces in the northeastern city of Mashhad overnight, killing four people and injuring more than 10, several Iranian media reported on Wednesday.

A car travelling at high speed first collided with another vehicle, lost control and then veered into the crowd after hitting safety barriers and traffic signs, Noor News reported, citing Mohsen Mousa-Abadi, head of Razavi Khorasan Province’s traffic police. The driver was arrested.

“The driver of the car is a man of about 35 years old and has a conditional licence, with medical restrictions. This person has no vision in his left eye and was driving only with his right eye,” an unnamed traffic police official was quoted as saying in a later report by the judiciary’s news outlet Mizan.

Mizan added that the accident was neither intentional nor security-related.

(Reporting by Dubai Newsroom; Editing by Tom Hogue)

WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secre

WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday said airlines, the maritime industry and digital assets could be possible targets as the Trump administration continues its planned efforts to squeeze Iran‘s economy.

Bessent, asked about Russian support for Iran in an interview on Fox News following a G20 gathering in North Carolina this week, also warned “everyone” against backing Tehran.

“My message to everyone is stay away. We all want this conflict to end, and the fastest way for the conflict to end is for no one to provide any support to this regime,” he told “Fox & Friends” one day after Russian President Vladimir Putin threw his support behind Iran.

“We are having very fulsome talks with anyone supporting the regime,” he added.

On Tuesday, Bessent said the administration could also target airline leasing companies and that more Iran bank sanctions could come this week.

(Reporting by Susan Heavey; Editing by Sharon Singleton and Michelle Nichols)

By Nandita Bose, Humeyra Pamuk and Gram Slattery W

By Nandita Bose, Humeyra Pamuk and Gram Slattery
WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Top aides to President Donald Trump are pushing to keep the Iran war from escalating before November’s midterm elections to staunch Republican electoral losses, four people familiar with the discussions said, a strategy that is already under strain as the United States and Iran resume their back-and-forth attacks.

White House officials will consider ramping up military action after the November 3 vote, said the sources, who requested anonymity to describe internal thinking, though any return to full-scale conflict is far from a given.

For now, they said, the administration is focused on tightening the economic pressure on Iran in an effort to extract concessions in any future negotiation that months of military action failed to secure.

“We are keeping the pressure on Iran,” one White House official said. “But November is a priority.”

Keeping the war mostly contained until then would help prevent the unpopular conflict from dominating the news as Trump’s Republicans campaign to defend thin majorities in the Senate and House of Representatives, said the sources, three of whom are White House officials.

Only 31% of Americans approve of the war, while some 63% disapprove, according to a late August Reuters/Ipsos poll, and voters are particularly unhappy about high gas prices.

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