Tuesday
Jan082013
Iran Live Coverage: The Regime Admits the Oil Squeeze
Tuesday, January 8, 2013 at 5:51See also Monday's Iran Live Coverage: Threatening the Reformists
2055 GMT: Economy Watch. The Central Bank has put Iran's November rate of inflation at 27.4%, a rise of 1.3% from October and of 5.6% from April.
1527 GMT: Elections Watch. Ali Saeedi, the Supreme Leader's representative to the Revolutionary Guards, has said that it is the duty of the Guards to ensure a "reasonable engineering of the elections".
Saeedi put that duty within the context of the claim that the US is pursuing a "proxy war" against the Islamic Republic.
1353 GMT: All the President's Men. Senior Presidential aide Ali Akbar Javanfekr, summoned back to Evin Prison on Monday from a 12-day hospital stay, has been freed on another furlough after a few hours in detention.