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Published on: 09/30/2026 - 07:57 Modified on: 09/30/2026 - 11:37

In the headlines: a student demonstration against the Iranian regime in Tehran, despite the ongoing repression; the appointment of Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri as Prime Minister of Morocco after the victory of her party in the legislative elections; the shock wave in France after the revelations about anti-Semitic remarks attributed to Jordan Bardella; and the reading of the English novel "Jane Eyre" on the program for Chinese schoolchildren.

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On the front page of the press: the demonstration on Monday in Tehran by dozens of students, despite the ongoing repression.

According to Radio Free Europe, students at Allameh Tabatabai University gathered to “protest against the hijab law, demand the release of their imprisoned comrades and denounce the poor living conditions on campus” – a mobilization that has become rare, as Iranian authorities have intensified repression since the war with the United States. In one video verified by RFE, we see a crowd of students applauding and chanting slogans, while in another, only mentioned by the radio, a member of the basijs appears to "threaten to 'put the students in a bag', or in a body bag". For its part, the opposition site Iranwire indicates that the "No to Execution Tuesdays" campaign, against the death penalty, now extends to 66 prisons across the country. In the press release they published yesterday, on the occasion of their 140th consecutive week of mobilization, the members of this campaign reported at least 79 prisoners, including six women, executed during the month of August alone.

In Morocco, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri was appointed Prime Minister yesterday after her party's victory in the legislative elections. The mayor of Marrakech, co-leader of the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), was tasked with forming a new government by King Mohammed VI – a sober announcement on the website of Le Matin, the official daily. The Moroccan press insists that Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri is the first woman to occupy this position in the history of the Kingdom – which the Hespress site perceives as a sign of the “transformations of the Islamic world in the modern era”. The magazine Tel Quel, which spoke with the elected officials of its city, Marrakech, observes that "all avoid saying bad things" about this personality "who is both feared and respected". Abroad, The New York Times recalls that his appointment comes after elections "characterized by the lowest participation in nearly twenty years against a backdrop of widespread frustration over unemployment and mediocrity of public services, and concern over the exodus of many Moroccans". The Guardian also mentions the recent “spectacle of young migrants swimming across Moroccan waters to reach Ceuta”, and what it revealed about “the frustration of an entire generation”. “Worryingly, an adequate national response to this major generational challenge still seems far away,” writes the newspaper, and, to sum up, it is not a football World Cup that will change anything.

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Politics, again, in France, affected by the shock wave of Mediapart's revelations on anti-Semitic remarks attributed to Jordan Bardella. “A madness”, “a manipulation”, a “barbouzerie”: Le Parisien/Aujourd'hui en France recounts the counterattack of the RN which “unites” behind its president, whose entourage claims to have warned Marine Le Pen of the Mediapart investigation, although she seemed to discover it on Monday. The RN says it wants to file a defamation complaint but Le Figaro indicates that as the delays are particularly long, the case may not come before the courts "before a year and a half".

In the meantime, Marine Le Pen advises Mediapart to "put on your Kevlar suit" - comments that the site considers "threatening", testifying according to it to "the deep nature, (the) violence and (the) hostility to the press" of an extreme right engaged in what it itself describes as hunting for the "mole". At the head of these self-proclaimed "hunters", L'Infiltré, whose first issue was broadcast yesterday. The newest member of the media in the Bolloré sphere promised to reveal the identity of the alleged RN “traitor” at the origin of the leaks. But as Le Monde noted last night, "twenty o'clock has struck, and nothing", nothing in the magazine, at the time of its broadcast on the RN and its alleged "mole". “The infallible investigators failed in their quest for the lepenist felon,” the newspaper quips.

Despite the unity displayed, Mediapart's revelations risk reviving tensions within the RN. Libération sees them "sowing havoc at the highest level of the organization chart" of the RN, the hypothesis that they are "a consequence" of the presidential campaign "not being excluded", according to him, "which says a lot about the length of the knives which circulate under the frontist coats". Le Soir quotes political scientist Safia Dahani, who notes, for her part, that less than a month before the RN congress, "the cards are reshuffled", notably with the return of Marion Maréchal, the niece of Marine Le Pen. “At the RN,” concludes the Belgian newspaper, “everything ends up being played out in the inner circle. And if Jordan Bardella embodied a sort of ideal son-in-law at one point, he was never really part of the family.”

We end this press review in China, where an unexpected novel has entered the school curriculum. The Times reports that "Jane Eyre", the classic of English literature by Charlotte Brontë, is now compulsory in ninth grade, for 14/15 year olds. “Chinese schoolchildren will not be able to escape the romantic fantasies of Victorian England,” laughs the newspaper, which explains that the book was officially chosen to teach students “how to become a balanced person”, but above all to extol the virtues of marriage and the traditional family, the whims of a regime obsessed with demographic decline. But has the regime read Jane Eyre correctly, which said: "I am not a bird and no net ensnares me. I am a free human being with an independent will"?

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