Rooz Exclusive - The public and press relations division of the Iran’s President's office has ‎published a report evaluating the headlines of Tehran newspapers regarding the recent report by ‎IAEA director ElBaradei. In a subsequent letter addressed to Tehran's prosecutor general, the ‎President's Office cited the report and called for confronting the newspapers that had failed to put ‎a positive spin on ElBaradei's report. ‎

An informed source from the President's Office told Rooz that the public and press relations ‎division received a special celebratory budget two weeks ahead of the ElBaradei's report. The ‎purpose of this celebratory budget, according to Rooz's source, was to "hand out pastries and ‎send government vehicles to city streets to honk and celebrate, but because of the gasoline ‎shortage, celebrations were limited to handing out pastries and renting billboard spaces at ‎Tehran's major highways." ‎

In connection with this plan, massive billboards were erected on Saturday to accompany ‎newspaper headlines. Apparently, officials at the president's office did not think that the public ‎may find it strange to see billboards boasting a nuclear "victory" before ElBaradei's report was ‎published. ‎

The same source cited a memorandum issued by the National Security Council requiring ‎newspapers to publish positive headlines on their first and second pages regarding Iran's nuclear ‎victory over the West. ‎

This informed insider told Rooz, "Press divisions at the president's office and the Press Oversight ‎Committee at the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance are have been charged with the task ‎of evaluating news reports dealing with the nuclear issue and identifying and confronting non-‎complying newspapers. According to the report published by the president office's public and ‎press relations division, most newspapers chose positive headlines to refer to ElBaradei's report, ‎with the notable exception of reformist E'temad, which chose an ambiguous headline and did not ‎discuss the nuclear issue on its front page. Other newspapers were given ratings ranging from ‎‎"neutral" to "positive." ‎

According to Rooz's source, the president's office has forwarded a letter to the office of Tehran's ‎prosecutor general, Saeed Mortazavi, complaining of E'temad's policies and the daily's ‎opposition to the regime's general goal and National Security Council Memoranda. ‎