{"id":210494,"date":"2018-04-05T17:36:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T17:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/210494-iran-news-in-brief-april-04-2018"},"modified":"2020-01-14T21:58:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T21:58:41","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-april-04-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-april-04-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran news in brief, April 04, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, April 04, 2018\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_71nt1hYhWyc\" 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%2F71nt1hYhWyc%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/71nt1hYhWyc\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT4M7S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2018-04-04T14:18:07Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_71nt1hYhWyc\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F71nt1hYhWyc%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, April 04, 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\/71nt1hYhWyc\" 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%2F71nt1hYhWyc%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, April 04, 2018\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, April 04, 2018 Trump and Salman: emphasis on the need to cope with the Iranian regime&#039;s threat to regional stability Saudi Arabia&#039;s King Salman had a telephone conversation on Monday evening with US President Donald Trump, in which he discussed the latest regional situation. Salman, expressed his appreciation for a recent statement issued by the White House on its strong stance towards the Iran-backed Houthi militias in Yemen. Trump called on the need to address the Iranian threat. AHWAZ, Apr. 3, 2018. Dozens killed and wounded in fire Dozens of people were killed and wounded during an early morning Fire on April 3 in a cafe at a bazaar in western Ahvaz A spokesman for the Iranian Emergency Department announced that during the fire, at least 10 people were killed and 14 were injured. Houthi-Iranian attack targets Saudi oil tanker The spokesperson of the Arab coalition fighting to support legitimacy in Yemen said that a Saudi oil tanker was subjected to a Houthi-Iranian attack on Tuesday afternoon. Col. Turki al-Maliki confirmed that at exactly 1:30 pm local time, one of the Saudi oil tankers was attacked in international waters west of Hudaydah port, currently controlled Houthi armed militias supported by Iran. 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Salman, expressed his appreciation for a recent statement issued by the White House on its strong stance towards the Iran-backed Houthi militias in Yemen. Trump called on the need to address the Iranian threat.AHWAZ, Apr. 3, 2018. Dozens killed and wounded in fireDozens of people were killed and wounded during an early morning Fire on April 3 in a cafe at a bazaar in western AhvazA spokesman for the Iranian Emergency Department announced that during the fire, at least 10 people were killed and 14 were injured.Houthi-Iranian attack targets Saudi oil tanker The spokesperson of the Arab coalition fighting to support legitimacy in Yemen said that a Saudi oil tanker was subjected to a Houthi-Iranian attack on Tuesday afternoon.Col. 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Salman, expressed his appreciation for a recent statement issued by the White House on its strong stance towards the Iran-backed Houthi militias in Yemen. Trump called on the need to address the Iranian threat.AHWAZ, Apr. 3, 2018. Dozens killed and wounded in fireDozens of people were killed and wounded during an early morning Fire on April 3 in a cafe at a bazaar in western AhvazA spokesman for the Iranian Emergency Department announced that during the fire, at least 10 people were killed and 14 were injured.Houthi-Iranian attack targets Saudi oil tanker The spokesperson of the Arab coalition fighting to support legitimacy in Yemen said that a Saudi oil tanker was subjected to a Houthi-Iranian attack on Tuesday afternoon.Col. Turki al-Maliki confirmed that at exactly 1:30 pm local time, one of the Saudi oil tankers was attacked in international waters west of Hudaydah port, currently controlled Houthi armed militias supported by Iran.Border Markets Strike in the Cities of Iran's Kurdistan ProvinceOn Tuesday, April 3, the bazaris in various cities of Kurdistan, including Kermanshah, Saghez and Javanrood, went on strike and closed their shops in an attempt to protest the closure of the borders by the IRGC and the regime's agents.Marco Rubio: Leaving Syria without a clear plan, will strengthen the Iranian regime and \u2026Senator Marco Rubio opposed the withdrawal of US forces from Syria and said in a message that Donald Trump had made great progress in defeating ISIL in Syria and that we should leave Syria as soon as possible. But leaving without a clear plan and a vacuum left behind would undermine US security and boost Putin, the Iranian regime and Hezbollah.Marriage of girl children promoted by Iranian regime\u2019s TV serialA TV serial broadcast during Nowruz holidays has been widely criticized by children\u2019s rights activists in Iran for promoting marriage of girl children.The serial called, \u201cPaytakht\u201d or th capital, which is a comedy making fun of the marriage of two teenage girls, 12 or 13 years old, has created great concern among children\u2019s rights advocates which according to them the TV serial has already violated many children\u2019s rights in the form of teasing and dialogues between the serial characters, and the producers must account for them.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-april-04-2018\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-april-04-2018\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-april-04-2018\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Iran news in brief, April 04, 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\/210494","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=210494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}