0620 GMT: It has been a slow weekend for news from Iran. This morning's headline in the State outlet IRNA is a declaration from the Minister of Cooperatives that 18 million hecta res of cultivated land will create jobs. Press TV goes farther with no stories at all, apart from condolences to Pakistan over the death of 127 people in a plane crash outside Islamabad.
Interestingly, neither website features the meeting of the Expediency Council, the body which periodically gathers to discuss developments in legislation and Government action, and the purported reconciliation of former President Hashemi Rafsanjani --- the head of the Council --- with President Ahmadinejad.
Mehr trumpeted the return of Ahmadinejad to the Council after a three-year boycott of its sessions and featured a photograph of his shared smile with Rafsanjani. However, as we wondered if the political kissing and making up was real, analyst Meir Javadanfar offered another explanation: Ahmadinejad had been ordered by the Supreme Leader to go to the Council and display that all is now well.
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