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Friday’s Iran Mini Report – July 20, 2018

Friday's Iran Mini Report - July 20, 2018

• U.S. Delegation to Meet Turkish Officials On Iran Sanctions

A U.S. delegation of Treasury and State Department officials will meet Turkish authorities on Friday to discuss sanctions targeting Iran, an official from Turkey’s foreign ministry said.

“A U.S. delegation currently holding talks in India will be visiting Ankara on Friday regarding sanctions against Iran,” a foreign ministry official told Reuters.

“The delegation will meet with related institutions, including from the foreign and finance ministries.”

• Hundreds of Dervishes Given Harsh Sentences

Tehran’s prosecutor Jafari Dolatabad says verdicts have been issued against 258 Iranian dervishes of the Gonabadi order, state-run news agency IRNA reported July 17.

Dolatabadi described the condemned dervishes, who are adherents to a minority Sufi Muslim faith, as the “elements of last February’s turmoil,” a reference to several days of protests by dervishes in February in Tehran that saw hundreds arrested and at least five dead.

• Christian Kurdish woman arrested with her son by intelligence forces

Christian Kurdish woman, Massoumeh Taqinejad, 30, from Kermanshah in western Iran, was arrested and detained along with her son, Artin, in a raid by intelligence forces on her residence in Karaj, on July 2, 2018.

This Christian Kurdish woman is charged with “proselytizing Christianity” on the internet. Her computer and personal belongings were confiscated by the intelligence agents at the time of her arrest.

• Shinabad girls, plundered women protest in Tehran, Rasht, and Mashhad

Female victims of a 2012 school fire in the northwestern Iranian city of Shinabad and their supporters staged a protest outside the Tehran office of the Mullahs’ President Hassan Rouhani, on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 17 and 18, 2018,. Shinabad girls criticized officials for not responding to their needs, by refusing to issue them passports and to pay for their travel abroad and medical expenses.