0645 GMT: Four days of news dominated by the Supreme Leader's visit to northeastern Iran have come to an end, so Iranian State media returns to other stories that all is well in the Islamic Republic. IRNA claims once again that development of the South Pars oil and gas field, beset by technical and economic difficulties for years, is proceeding.
Press TV features the Foreign Ministry's denial that Tajik Air, one of severalinternational carriers which have reportedly suspended flights to Iran because of financial issues, has stopped service. The Iranian Ambassador to Tajikistan insisted, “TajikAir’s last Tuesday flight was cancelled due to disarrangements in Tehran and Dushanbe, but the flight was operated [on Saturday] with almost full capacity."
Khabar Online's English-language edition --- notable for its good-news emphasis in contrast to criticism of the Government that appears in its Persian-language counterpart --- features the proclamation of the Deputy Head of the Trade Promotion Organization that non-oil exports increased 30% between March and September.
Non-oil exports have accounted for about 20% of Iranian revenues, but that share is likely to increase amid the sharp drop in Tehran's oil exports this year.
Other media fail to join the All-Is-Well performance. Mehr leads with the consideration of further European sanctions on Iran's energy sector, and Aftab breaks the regime blackout on news of the Iranian currency to claim the Rial is trading --- when it is trading --- at 32600:1 vs. the US dollar.
The Central Bank imposed an "open-market" rate of 28500:1 two weeks later. Almost all official exchanges soon limited or stopped sale of US dollars.
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