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Tuesday’s Iran Mini Report – June 12, 2018

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• Indian Oil Major Starts Cutting Oil Imports from Iran

One of the biggest Iranian oil customers among India’s refiners, Nayara Energy—formerly known as Essar Oil—started scaling back oil purchases from Iran this month, Reuters reported on Monday, citing sources familiar with the issue.

Nayara Energy has just re-branded after a consortium of investors, including Russia’s largest oil producer Rosneft, oil trader Trafigura, and UCP investment group, finalized a deal to take over Essar Oil in the summer of 2017.

• PM says Iran should not interfere in Lebanon’s affairs

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has criticized a top Iranian general for comments he reportedly made recently in which he praised Iran-backed groups for making gains in last month’s parliamentary elections.

Hariri told reporters later Monday that the comments are “regrettable,” adding that interfering in Lebanon’s internal affairs is “not in their (Iran’s) interest, nor those of Lebanon or the region.”

• New report of protests in Iran

From early Monday morning June 11, 2018, the cities of Ahvaz, Tehran, Shadegan, Borazjan, and Izeh have witnessed rallies by workers and other groups of people protesting poor living conditions, social crises, and theft by authorities and state companies.

• Rafsanjani daughter: Iran’s policies will force regime change

The daughter of Iran’s former president, Hashemi Rafsanjani, has criticized Tehran’s foreign policies saying they will lead to the overthrow of the regime.

Faezeh Hashemi said : The regime is giving wrong reasons to the Iranian people in order to distort the public opinion about what has happened and what is happening now, since the current problems facing Iran are not the result of the Iranian nuclear agreement, but because of Tehran’s foreign policies including in Syria and Yemen.

She added: “Ironically, when we intervene in a country, we spend a lot of money there, and distort our credibility in the world, but when it comes to benefits, we are expelled from these countries including Syria and Iraq,” adding that these policies have proven to be counterproductive and harmful.

• Iranian women’s rowing team exercizes in black water

iranian women’s rowing team exercizes in black water. Yeganeh Yaghoutpour, one of the members of the Iranian women’s rowing team, describing the deplorable conditions of women’s exercises ahead of the rowing tournament.

Yaghoutpour also explained in this interview, that the circumstances for the Iranian women’s rowing team is horrible and they do not have any place for prep exercizes. As a result, she said, “the athletes in this field have to do their exercizes in the sewage and there has been no improvement in this situation.”