About half way down the page of this link you can hear a news broadcast about Mehdiabad, Bank Saderat, etc.
The delivery by the newsreader is professional bored-to-death deadpan with a few false starts. No idea what the significance of this is.
http://radiokoocheh.com/article/127182
Other stuff
Trita Parsi does not think there will be any change of Government via an "Iranian Spring" following the Arab Spring. The only way he envisages any such thing happening is via mass civil disobedience on a wide spread issue (like discontent over electricity and gas price rises e.g. mass non-payment of bills).
The Chief of Bank Saderat has been sacked (over the $2.6bn fraud).
If Mehdiabad is held through an Austrian based subsidiary, we might be able to pursue international arbitration on the basis of a bilateral investment treaty. Itok certainly has a parent company registered in Vienna.
It is not impossible the Americans will put pressure on anyone dealing with Bank Saderat.
Use Google translate to see the article - I don't think it tells us anything new. What is new is the news has been talked about in Iran, not just in Russian newspapers?
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