{"id":210529,"date":"2018-04-22T16:47:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T16:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/210529-iran-news-in-brief-april-18-2018"},"modified":"2020-01-14T21:58:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T21:58:41","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-april-18-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-april-18-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran news in brief, April 18, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, April 18, 2018\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_25blYQkF5B0\" 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%2F25blYQkF5B0%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/25blYQkF5B0\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT3M31S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2018-04-18T14:51:48Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_25blYQkF5B0\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F25blYQkF5B0%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, April 18, 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\/25blYQkF5B0\" 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%2F25blYQkF5B0%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, April 18, 2018\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, April 18, 2018 Continued strikes by shopkeepers and Bazar merchants for the third consecutive day On Tuesday April 17, the Strikers in Baneh and Marivan in the western province of, Kurdistan continued their third day of protest against the new customs laws and the closure of the borders. Reports from cities of Saghez, Javanrood, and Marivan indicate that the marketers and shopkeepers in these cities also joined the nationwide strike of border towns. According to the representative of Marivan, only from this city 8,000 men careers have lost their jobs, causing a sharp recession in the marketers and businesses. Day 2 of protests by thousands in Kazerun On Tuesday, April 17, residents of Kazerun, southern Iran, protested for a second day against the decision by the regime to split the city into two. They chanted: \u201cGuns, tanks and explosives don&#039;t scare us anymore\u201d, &quot;Our Enemy Is Here, It Is Falsely Said to Be America\u201d and \u201cWe will not yield to humiliation\u201d. Families of 500 detained Iranian Arab protesters rally outside Governor\u2019s Office in Ahvaz Relatives of the approximately 500 Iranian Arab demonstrators detained in recent anti-regime protests in Ahvaz, south-west Iran, held a rally outside the Office of the Governor of Khuzestan Province on Monday, April 16, 2018. The families published a statement, which was circulated online via social media, stating that their loved ones had been arrested simply for defending their Arab heritage. Iran: A 3-year-old Baluchi girl shot dead by SSF A toddler girl aged 3, was among the passengers of a car targeted by the State Security Force in Delegan, in the southeastern province of Sistan-o Baluchistan. The four passengers of a car were shot to death by the SSF on Thursday, April 12, 2018. 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Reports from cities of Saghez, Javanrood, and Marivan indicate that the marketers and shopkeepers in these cities also joined the nationwide strike of border towns.According to the representative of Marivan, only from this city 8,000 men careers have lost their jobs, causing a sharp recession in the marketers and businesses.Day 2 of protests by thousands in KazerunOn Tuesday, April 17, residents of Kazerun, southern Iran, protested for a second day against the decision by the regime to split the city into two.They chanted: \u201cGuns, tanks and explosives don&#039;t scare us anymore\u201d, &quot;Our Enemy Is Here, It Is Falsely Said to Be America\u201d and \u201cWe will not yield to humiliation\u201d. 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Reports from cities of Saghez, Javanrood, and Marivan indicate that the marketers and shopkeepers in these cities also joined the nationwide strike of border towns.According to the representative of Marivan, only from this city 8,000 men careers have lost their jobs, causing a sharp recession in the marketers and businesses.Day 2 of protests by thousands in KazerunOn Tuesday, April 17, residents of Kazerun, southern Iran, protested for a second day against the decision by the regime to split the city into two.They chanted: \u201cGuns, tanks and explosives don't scare us anymore\u201d, \"Our Enemy Is Here, It Is Falsely Said to Be America\u201d and \u201cWe will not yield to humiliation\u201d. 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