{"id":210437,"date":"2018-04-04T09:04:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T09:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/210437-iran-news-in-brief-march-9-2018"},"modified":"2020-01-14T21:58:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T21:58:42","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-march-9-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-march-9-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran news in brief, March 9, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, March 9, 2018\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_SawOIWdQjwI\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FSawOIWdQjwI%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SawOIWdQjwI\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT3M47S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2018-03-09T13:27:34Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_SawOIWdQjwI\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FSawOIWdQjwI%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, March 9, 2018<\/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\/SawOIWdQjwI\" 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%2FSawOIWdQjwI%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, March 9, 2018\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, March 9, 2018 Security Forces Brutally Raid Women&#039;s IWD Gathering in Tehran Thursday, March 8, 2018, on the International Women\u2019s Day, a group of courageous Iranian women gathered outside the Labor Ministry on Tehran\u2019s Azadi Ave. The women held placards which read, \u201cNo to gender-based discrimination\u201d, \u201cno to discriminatory labor law\u201d, \u201cequal and fair wages for women\u201d, \u201cFreedom, equality, justice.\u201d Security forces, plainclothes agents and female troops had been stationed in the area, on alert before the gathering started. To prevent the formation of the gathering and disperse the crowd, they viciously attacked the participants and brutalized them with batons and shockers. At least 20 women were arrested. Jubeir: Agreed with UK on need to deter Iran, stop its support for terrorism \u201cIran is playing a destructive and dangerous role in Yemen and destabilizing the region,\u201d British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told a news conference with his Saudi counterpart Adel al-Jubeir on Wednesday night. \u201cThe Saudi government has formed an alliance to support the legitimate government in Yemen,\u201d Johnson said. The British minister pointed to \u201ca British-Saudi agreement to control shipping lines in preparation for the opening of Yemeni ports.\u201d For his part, Adel al-Jubeir said that Saudi Arabia agreed with Britain \u201con the need to deter Iran and stop its support for terrorism.\u201d Canada Says Widow Of Iran Environmentalist Stopped From Traveling The widow of an Iranian-Canadian university professor and environmentalist who died under disputed circumstances in a Tehran prison has been stopped from traveling abroad, Canada&#039;s foreign affairs minister said Thursday. In a tweet early Thursday morning, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland confirmed Seyed-Emami&#039;s widow was barred from leaving the country. &quot;We demand that, as a Canadian, she be given the freedom to return home,&quot; Freeland wrote. 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To prevent the formation of the gathering and disperse the crowd, they viciously attacked the participants and brutalized them with batons and shockers. At least 20 women were arrested.Jubeir: Agreed with UK on need to deter Iran, stop its support for terrorism\u201cIran is playing a destructive and dangerous role in Yemen and destabilizing the region,\u201d British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told a news conference with his Saudi counterpart Adel al-Jubeir on Wednesday night.\u201cThe Saudi government has formed an alliance to support the legitimate government in Yemen,\u201d Johnson said. 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To prevent the formation of the gathering and disperse the crowd, they viciously attacked the participants and brutalized them with batons and shockers. At least 20 women were arrested.Jubeir: Agreed with UK on need to deter Iran, stop its support for terrorism\u201cIran is playing a destructive and dangerous role in Yemen and destabilizing the region,\u201d British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told a news conference with his Saudi counterpart Adel al-Jubeir on Wednesday night.\u201cThe Saudi government has formed an alliance to support the legitimate government in Yemen,\u201d Johnson said. The British minister pointed to \u201ca British-Saudi agreement to control shipping lines in preparation for the opening of Yemeni ports.\u201dFor his part, Adel al-Jubeir said that Saudi Arabia agreed with Britain \u201con the need to deter Iran and stop its support for terrorism.\u201dCanada Says Widow Of Iran Environmentalist Stopped From TravelingThe widow of an Iranian-Canadian university professor and environmentalist who died under disputed circumstances in a Tehran prison has been stopped from traveling abroad, Canada&#039;s foreign affairs minister said Thursday.In a tweet early Thursday morning, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland confirmed Seyed-Emami&#039;s widow was barred from leaving the country.&quot;We demand that, as a Canadian, she be given the freedom to return home,&quot; Freeland wrote.New US Intelligence Report Highlights Global Security Threats From Iran and HezbollahIran and its Lebanese Shi\u2019a proxy Hezbollah represent an undiluted global threat emboldened by recent advances in Iraq and Syria and undeterred by the 2015 nuclear deal, a new US intelligence reported issued this week highlighted.\u201cIran\u2019s ballistic missile programs give it the potential to hold targets at risk across the region, and Tehran already has the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the Middle East,\u201d The report underlined that Iran \u201cand its strategic partner Lebanese Hezbollah \u2026 pose a persistent threat to the United States and its partners worldwide.\u201d Hezbollah had \u201cdemonstrated its intent to foment regional instability by deploying thousands of fighters to Syria and by providing weapons, tactics, and direction to militant and terrorist groups.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-march-9-2018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"NCRI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-04-04T09:04:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-01-14T21:58:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ncri-logo.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"402\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"100\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@iran_policy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@iran_policy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"Article\",\"BlogPosting\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-march-9-2018\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-march-9-2018\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Iran news in brief, March 9, 2018\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-04-04T09:04:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-14T21:58:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-march-9-2018\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":14,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"save\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Multimedia: Iran news in brief\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-march-9-2018\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-march-9-2018\\\/\",\"name\":\"Iran news in brief, March 9, 2018 - NCRI\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2018-04-04T09:04:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-14T21:58:42+00:00\",\"description\":\"Iran news in brief, March 9, 2018Security Forces Brutally Raid Women's IWD Gathering in TehranThursday, March 8, 2018, on the International Women\u2019s Day, a group of courageous Iranian women gathered outside the Labor Ministry on Tehran\u2019s Azadi Ave. The women held placards which read, \u201cNo to gender-based discrimination\u201d, \u201cno to discriminatory labor law\u201d, \u201cequal and fair wages for women\u201d, \u201cFreedom, equality, justice.\u201dSecurity forces, plainclothes agents and female troops had been stationed in the area, on alert before the gathering started. 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To prevent the formation of the gathering and disperse the crowd, they viciously attacked the participants and brutalized them with batons and shockers. At least 20 women were arrested.Jubeir: Agreed with UK on need to deter Iran, stop its support for terrorism\u201cIran is playing a destructive and dangerous role in Yemen and destabilizing the region,\u201d British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told a news conference with his Saudi counterpart Adel al-Jubeir on Wednesday night.\u201cThe Saudi government has formed an alliance to support the legitimate government in Yemen,\u201d Johnson said. The British minister pointed to \u201ca British-Saudi agreement to control shipping lines in preparation for the opening of Yemeni ports.\u201dFor his part, Adel al-Jubeir said that Saudi Arabia agreed with Britain \u201con the need to deter Iran and stop its support for terrorism.\u201dCanada Says Widow Of Iran Environmentalist Stopped From TravelingThe widow of an Iranian-Canadian university professor and environmentalist who died under disputed circumstances in a Tehran prison has been stopped from traveling abroad, Canada's foreign affairs minister said Thursday.In a tweet early Thursday morning, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland confirmed Seyed-Emami's widow was barred from leaving the country.\"We demand that, as a Canadian, she be given the freedom to return home,\" Freeland wrote.New US Intelligence Report Highlights Global Security Threats From Iran and HezbollahIran and its Lebanese Shi\u2019a proxy Hezbollah represent an undiluted global threat emboldened by recent advances in Iraq and Syria and undeterred by the 2015 nuclear deal, a new US intelligence reported issued this week highlighted.\u201cIran\u2019s ballistic missile programs give it the potential to hold targets at risk across the region, and Tehran already has the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the Middle East,\u201d The report underlined that Iran \u201cand its strategic partner Lebanese Hezbollah \u2026 pose a persistent threat to the United States and its partners worldwide.\u201d Hezbollah had \u201cdemonstrated its intent to foment regional instability by deploying thousands of fighters to Syria and by providing weapons, tactics, and direction to militant and terrorist groups.\u201d","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-march-9-2018\/","og_site_name":"NCRI","article_published_time":"2018-04-04T09:04:58+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-01-14T21:58:42+00:00","og_image":[{"width":402,"height":100,"url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ncri-logo.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@iran_policy","twitter_site":"@iran_policy","twitter_misc":{"Written by":""},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":["Article","BlogPosting"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-march-9-2018\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-march-9-2018\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Iran news in brief, March 9, 2018","datePublished":"2018-04-04T09:04:58+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-14T21:58:42+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-march-9-2018\/"},"wordCount":14,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#organization"},"keywords":["save"],"articleSection":["Multimedia: Iran news in brief"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-march-9-2018\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-march-9-2018\/","name":"Iran news in brief, March 9, 2018 - NCRI","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2018-04-04T09:04:58+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-14T21:58:42+00:00","description":"Iran news in brief, March 9, 2018Security Forces Brutally Raid Women's IWD Gathering in TehranThursday, March 8, 2018, on the International Women\u2019s Day, a group of courageous Iranian women gathered outside the Labor Ministry on Tehran\u2019s Azadi Ave. The women held placards which read, \u201cNo to gender-based discrimination\u201d, \u201cno to discriminatory labor law\u201d, \u201cequal and fair wages for women\u201d, \u201cFreedom, equality, justice.\u201dSecurity forces, plainclothes agents and female troops had been stationed in the area, on alert before the gathering started. To prevent the formation of the gathering and disperse the crowd, they viciously attacked the participants and brutalized them with batons and shockers. At least 20 women were arrested.Jubeir: Agreed with UK on need to deter Iran, stop its support for terrorism\u201cIran is playing a destructive and dangerous role in Yemen and destabilizing the region,\u201d British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told a news conference with his Saudi counterpart Adel al-Jubeir on Wednesday night.\u201cThe Saudi government has formed an alliance to support the legitimate government in Yemen,\u201d Johnson said. The British minister pointed to \u201ca British-Saudi agreement to control shipping lines in preparation for the opening of Yemeni ports.\u201dFor his part, Adel al-Jubeir said that Saudi Arabia agreed with Britain \u201con the need to deter Iran and stop its support for terrorism.\u201dCanada Says Widow Of Iran Environmentalist Stopped From TravelingThe widow of an Iranian-Canadian university professor and environmentalist who died under disputed circumstances in a Tehran prison has been stopped from traveling abroad, Canada's foreign affairs minister said Thursday.In a tweet early Thursday morning, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland confirmed Seyed-Emami's widow was barred from leaving the country.\"We demand that, as a Canadian, she be given the freedom to return home,\" Freeland wrote.New US Intelligence Report Highlights Global Security Threats From Iran and HezbollahIran and its Lebanese Shi\u2019a proxy Hezbollah represent an undiluted global threat emboldened by recent advances in Iraq and Syria and undeterred by the 2015 nuclear deal, a new US intelligence reported issued this week highlighted.\u201cIran\u2019s ballistic missile programs give it the potential to hold targets at risk across the region, and Tehran already has the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the Middle East,\u201d The report underlined that Iran \u201cand its strategic partner Lebanese Hezbollah \u2026 pose a persistent threat to the United States and its partners worldwide.\u201d Hezbollah had \u201cdemonstrated its intent to foment regional instability by deploying thousands of fighters to Syria and by providing weapons, tactics, and direction to militant and terrorist groups.\u201d","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-march-9-2018\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-march-9-2018\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-march-9-2018\/#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 9, 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\/210437","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=210437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}