{"id":210402,"date":"2018-04-04T08:39:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T08:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/210402-iran-news-in-brief-march-2-2018"},"modified":"2020-01-14T21:58:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T21:58:42","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-march-2-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-march-2-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran news in brief, March 2, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_OuZAyFCvsSk\"><div id=\"lyte_OuZAyFCvsSk\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FOuZAyFCvsSk%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/OuZAyFCvsSk\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FOuZAyFCvsSk%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video thumbnail\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:853px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran news in brief, March 2, 2018US Military in Middle East Must Play Role in Stopping Iranian Regime&#8217;s Spread of TerrorGeneral Joseph Votel who is in charge of US Command [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[178],"class_list":{"0":"post-210402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-iran-news-in-brief","7":"tag-save"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Iran news in brief, March 2, 2018 - NCRI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, March 2, 2018US Military in Middle East Must Play Role in Stopping Iranian Regime&#039;s Spread of TerrorGeneral Joseph Votel who is in charge of US Command spoke this week about Iran. 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He had gone to the administrative office on Tuesday morning to pursue his wage and insurance claims.\u201dIran Regime&#039;s Interference in Iraqi Elections Stirs TensionsThe Iranian regime has been interfering in the internal affairs of numerous countries including Syria and Yemen. Recently, Iran\u2019s presence in Iraq is on the rise.During an official visit to Iran a few weeks ago, the Supreme Leader\u2019s top advisor, Ali Akbar Velayati, said: \u201cWe will not allow liberals and communists to govern in Iraq.\u201d The secretary of the Central Committee of the Iraqi Communist Party, Raed Fahmi, has commented on the remarks made by Velayati. He said that it is a clear interference in internal affairs.Iran detains 35 women for going to football matchIran has detained 35 women for trying to attend a football match, APA reports quoting BBC.They tried to go to a game between Tehran teams Esteqlal and Persepolis. Iran said they were temporarily held and would be released after the match.Fifa&#039;s president, Gianni Infantino, was also in attendance, along with Iranian Sport Minister Masoud Soltanifar.A live broadcast was taken off the air when a journalist asked Mr Soltanifar when women would be allowed to attend football matches.Qatar media omits Iran from White House statement on Trump callQatari media outlets have been accused of misleading reports after it completely omitted Iran from a White House press release statement regarding US President Trump\u2019s phone call with Emir Tamim al-Thani.All reports on the call that quoted Qatari outlets such as Qatar news agency, Doha&#039;s newspapers, both Al Jazeera Arabic and its English language channel, on air and online, failed to mention that Trump emphasized the need to highlight the \u201cways all Gulf Cooperation Council states can better counter Iranian destabilizing activities and defeat terrorists and extremists\u201d.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-march-2-2018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Iran news in brief, March 2, 2018 - NCRI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, March 2, 2018US Military in Middle East Must Play Role in Stopping Iranian Regime&#039;s Spread of TerrorGeneral Joseph Votel who is in charge of US Command spoke this week about Iran. 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He said that although the American-led coalition fighting ISIS in Syria does not have countering Iran as its mission, it is still an issue that needs to be dealt with. He said that the relationship between the Iraqi government, the Syrian Democratic Forces and the coalition has put the United States in a position to \u201cimpede Iran\u2019s objectives of establishing lines of communication through these critical areas and trying to connect Tehran to Beirut, for example\u201d.Iran: Suicide of a Worker; Who Was Not Paid His WagesOne of the seasonal workers of the Haft-Tapeh Sugarcane Company in southwestern part of Iran, on Tuesday February 27, threw himself into the canal of water and committed suicide out of desperation to protest non-payment of his claims.The state-run ILNA news agency quoted one of his co-workers as saying: \u201cMr. Naghdi has had about 27 years of work experience in Haft-Tapeh Sugarcane. He had gone to the administrative office on Tuesday morning to pursue his wage and insurance claims.\u201dIran Regime's Interference in Iraqi Elections Stirs TensionsThe Iranian regime has been interfering in the internal affairs of numerous countries including Syria and Yemen. Recently, Iran\u2019s presence in Iraq is on the rise.During an official visit to Iran a few weeks ago, the Supreme Leader\u2019s top advisor, Ali Akbar Velayati, said: \u201cWe will not allow liberals and communists to govern in Iraq.\u201d The secretary of the Central Committee of the Iraqi Communist Party, Raed Fahmi, has commented on the remarks made by Velayati. He said that it is a clear interference in internal affairs.Iran detains 35 women for going to football matchIran has detained 35 women for trying to attend a football match, APA reports quoting BBC.They tried to go to a game between Tehran teams Esteqlal and Persepolis. Iran said they were temporarily held and would be released after the match.Fifa's president, Gianni Infantino, was also in attendance, along with Iranian Sport Minister Masoud Soltanifar.A live broadcast was taken off the air when a journalist asked Mr Soltanifar when women would be allowed to attend football matches.Qatar media omits Iran from White House statement on Trump callQatari media outlets have been accused of misleading reports after it completely omitted Iran from a White House press release statement regarding US President Trump\u2019s phone call with Emir Tamim al-Thani.All reports on the call that quoted Qatari outlets such as Qatar news agency, Doha's newspapers, both Al Jazeera Arabic and its English language channel, on air and online, failed to mention that Trump emphasized the need to highlight the \u201cways all Gulf Cooperation Council states can better counter Iranian destabilizing activities and defeat terrorists and extremists\u201d.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-march-2-2018\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-march-2-2018\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-march-2-2018\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Iran news in brief, March 2, 2018"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/","name":"NCRI","description":"Official website of the National Council of Resistance of Iran","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#organization","name":"Official website of the National Council of Resistance of Iran","alternateName":"Official website of the National Council of Resistance of Iran","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ncri-logo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ncri-logo.jpg","width":402,"height":100,"caption":"Official website of the National Council of Resistance of Iran"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/iran_policy"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/author\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}