{"id":210657,"date":"2018-06-05T16:17:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T16:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/210657-iran-news-in-brief-june-1-2018"},"modified":"2020-01-24T18:07:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T18:07:23","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-june-1-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-1-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran news in brief, June 1, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, June 1, 2018\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_z-HZzuhdwiI\" 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%2Fz-HZzuhdwiI%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z-HZzuhdwiI\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT4M13S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2018-06-01T21:31:45Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_z-HZzuhdwiI\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Fz-HZzuhdwiI%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, June 1, 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\/z-HZzuhdwiI\" 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%2Fz-HZzuhdwiI%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, June 1, 2018\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, June 1, 2018 GE Pulls Back From Work in Iran General Electric Co. is planning to end sales of oil and natural-gas equipment later this year in Iran, people familiar with the matter said, illustrating how U.S. withdrawal from the nuclear deal is shutting a narrow window of opportunity for some American businesses there. GE had big ambitions in Iran after world powers, including the U.S., agreed to lift many sanctions on Tehran in 2016 in exchange for curbs on Iran\u2019s nuclear program. GE\u2019s foreign subsidiaries were preparing as much as &#36;150 million in bids for pipelines. &#36;59 Billion Has Left Iran in Past Two Years More than &#36;59 billion in hard currency has left Iran during last two years, Iranian regime\u2019s Parliament Research Center (IPRC) has disclosed. According to IPRC, following the United States withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) or Tehran\u2019s nuclear deal with world power, more billions are expected to leave Iran in the coming months. IRPC has also said that &#36;59 billion is a significant figure in Iran\u2019s financial situation, a website close to the speaker of parliament, Khabar Online reported on Monday, May 28. The International Transport Workers\u2019 Federation, (ITF) Supports Truck Drivers in Iran The International Transport Workers\u2019 Federation, on behalf of the 20 million transport workers worldwide that our organization represents, stands in full solidarity with the truck drivers of Iran as they enter a tenth day of strikes. Truckers in Iran are taking mass action over low wages and rising expenses, as well as for workers\u2019 rights and road safety. Women partake in protests in Mashhad, Boukan Iranian women participated in protests in Shiraz (southern Iran), Boukan (western Iran), and Mashhad (in the northeast) on May 29 and 30, 2018. Wednesday, May 30, 2018, residents of Masjid Yas district in Boukan, Iranian Kurdistan, marched to the Governor\u2019s Office to protest water and gas cut-off. A good number of women living in this district actively participated in this march. On the same day, a group of women and men plundered by Afzal-e Tous Institute in Mashhad, capital of Razavi Khorassan Province in northeastern Iran, held a protest outside the Ayandeh Bank in this city. Quake victims forced out of camp on Governor\u2019s order Forty families who were living in Shahed Camps 2 and 3 were forced out of the camps on the order of the Governor of Sarpol-e Zahab. Women and children have thus been rendered homeless. Wednesday, May 30, 2018, on the orders of the Governor of Sarpol-e Zahab, one of the regions hardest hit by the November earthquake, the water and power of the units belonging to 40 families residing in Shahed Camps 2 and 3 were cut off and they were forced to evacuate the camps in the month of Ramadan. 15-year-old girl remains in detention without legal warrant Ma&#039;edeh Shabani-Nejad, 15, who was arrested in January for writing nationalistic and epical poetry in Arabic, remains in detention in Sepidar Prison of Ahwaz, southwestern Iran, because her family does not afford to pay the 350million-touman bail set for her release. she was arrested in her uncle&#039;s house in Ahwaz on January 25, 2018, by the IRGC&#039;s Department of Intelligence and transferred to the IRGC detention center.\"><\/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, June 1, 2018GE Pulls Back From Work in IranGeneral Electric Co. is planning to end sales of oil and natural-gas equipment later this year in Iran, [&#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-210657","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, June 1, 2018 - NCRI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, June 1, 2018GE Pulls Back From Work in IranGeneral Electric Co. is planning to end sales of oil and natural-gas equipment later this year in Iran, people familiar with the matter said, illustrating how U.S. withdrawal from the nuclear deal is shutting a narrow window of opportunity for some American businesses there. GE had big ambitions in Iran after world powers, including the U.S., agreed to lift many sanctions on Tehran in 2016 in exchange for curbs on Iran\u2019s nuclear program. GE\u2019s foreign subsidiaries were preparing as much as $150 million in bids for pipelines.$59 Billion Has Left Iran in Past Two YearsMore than $59 billion in hard currency has left Iran during last two years, Iranian regime\u2019s Parliament Research Center (IPRC) has disclosed.According to IPRC, following the United States withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) or Tehran\u2019s nuclear deal with world power, more billions are expected to leave Iran in the coming months.IRPC has also said that $59 billion is a significant figure in Iran\u2019s financial situation, a website close to the speaker of parliament, Khabar Online reported on Monday, May 28.The International Transport Workers\u2019 Federation, (ITF) Supports Truck Drivers in IranThe International Transport Workers\u2019 Federation, on behalf of the 20 million transport workers worldwide that our organization represents, stands in full solidarity with the truck drivers of Iran as they enter a tenth day of strikes.Truckers in Iran are taking mass action over low wages and rising expenses, as well as for workers\u2019 rights and road safety.Women partake in protests in Mashhad, BoukanIranian women participated in protests in Shiraz (southern Iran), Boukan (western Iran), and Mashhad (in the northeast) on May 29 and 30, 2018.Wednesday, May 30, 2018, residents of Masjid Yas district in Boukan, Iranian Kurdistan, marched to the Governor\u2019s Office to protest water and gas cut-off. 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GE\u2019s foreign subsidiaries were preparing as much as $150 million in bids for pipelines.$59 Billion Has Left Iran in Past Two YearsMore than $59 billion in hard currency has left Iran during last two years, Iranian regime\u2019s Parliament Research Center (IPRC) has disclosed.According to IPRC, following the United States withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) or Tehran\u2019s nuclear deal with world power, more billions are expected to leave Iran in the coming months.IRPC has also said that $59 billion is a significant figure in Iran\u2019s financial situation, a website close to the speaker of parliament, Khabar Online reported on Monday, May 28.The International Transport Workers\u2019 Federation, (ITF) Supports Truck Drivers in IranThe International Transport Workers\u2019 Federation, on behalf of the 20 million transport workers worldwide that our organization represents, stands in full solidarity with the truck drivers of Iran as they enter a tenth day of strikes.Truckers in Iran are taking mass action over low wages and rising expenses, as well as for workers\u2019 rights and road safety.Women partake in protests in Mashhad, BoukanIranian women participated in protests in Shiraz (southern Iran), Boukan (western Iran), and Mashhad (in the northeast) on May 29 and 30, 2018.Wednesday, May 30, 2018, residents of Masjid Yas district in Boukan, Iranian Kurdistan, marched to the Governor\u2019s Office to protest water and gas cut-off. A good number of women living in this district actively participated in this march.On the same day, a group of women and men plundered by Afzal-e Tous Institute in Mashhad, capital of Razavi Khorassan Province in northeastern Iran, held a protest outside the Ayandeh Bank in this city.Quake victims forced out of camp on Governor\u2019s orderForty families who were living in Shahed Camps 2 and 3 were forced out of the camps on the order of the Governor of Sarpol-e Zahab. Women and children have thus been rendered homeless.Wednesday, May 30, 2018, on the orders of the Governor of Sarpol-e Zahab, one of the regions hardest hit by the November earthquake, the water and power of the units belonging to 40 families residing in Shahed Camps 2 and 3 were cut off and they were forced to evacuate the camps in the month of Ramadan.15-year-old girl remains in detention without legal warrantMa'edeh Shabani-Nejad, 15, who was arrested in January for writing nationalistic and epical poetry in Arabic, remains in detention in Sepidar Prison of Ahwaz, southwestern Iran, because her family does not afford to pay the 350million-touman bail set for her release.she was arrested in her uncle's house in Ahwaz on January 25, 2018, by the IRGC's Department of Intelligence and transferred to the IRGC detention center.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-1-2018\/","og_site_name":"NCRI","article_published_time":"2018-06-05T16:17:39+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-01-24T18:07:23+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-june-1-2018\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-1-2018\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Iran news in brief, June 1, 2018","datePublished":"2018-06-05T16:17:39+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T18:07:23+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-1-2018\/"},"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-june-1-2018\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-1-2018\/","name":"Iran news in brief, June 1, 2018 - NCRI","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2018-06-05T16:17:39+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T18:07:23+00:00","description":"Iran news in brief, June 1, 2018GE Pulls Back From Work in IranGeneral Electric Co. is planning to end sales of oil and natural-gas equipment later this year in Iran, people familiar with the matter said, illustrating how U.S. withdrawal from the nuclear deal is shutting a narrow window of opportunity for some American businesses there. 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GE\u2019s foreign subsidiaries were preparing as much as $150 million in bids for pipelines.$59 Billion Has Left Iran in Past Two YearsMore than $59 billion in hard currency has left Iran during last two years, Iranian regime\u2019s Parliament Research Center (IPRC) has disclosed.According to IPRC, following the United States withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) or Tehran\u2019s nuclear deal with world power, more billions are expected to leave Iran in the coming months.IRPC has also said that $59 billion is a significant figure in Iran\u2019s financial situation, a website close to the speaker of parliament, Khabar Online reported on Monday, May 28.The International Transport Workers\u2019 Federation, (ITF) Supports Truck Drivers in IranThe International Transport Workers\u2019 Federation, on behalf of the 20 million transport workers worldwide that our organization represents, stands in full solidarity with the truck drivers of Iran as they enter a tenth day of strikes.Truckers in Iran are taking mass action over low wages and rising expenses, as well as for workers\u2019 rights and road safety.Women partake in protests in Mashhad, BoukanIranian women participated in protests in Shiraz (southern Iran), Boukan (western Iran), and Mashhad (in the northeast) on May 29 and 30, 2018.Wednesday, May 30, 2018, residents of Masjid Yas district in Boukan, Iranian Kurdistan, marched to the Governor\u2019s Office to protest water and gas cut-off. A good number of women living in this district actively participated in this march.On the same day, a group of women and men plundered by Afzal-e Tous Institute in Mashhad, capital of Razavi Khorassan Province in northeastern Iran, held a protest outside the Ayandeh Bank in this city.Quake victims forced out of camp on Governor\u2019s orderForty families who were living in Shahed Camps 2 and 3 were forced out of the camps on the order of the Governor of Sarpol-e Zahab. 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