{"id":210718,"date":"2018-06-24T18:29:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T18:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/210718-iran-news-in-brief-june-22-2018"},"modified":"2020-01-24T18:07:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T18:07:06","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-june-22-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-22-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran news in brief, June 22, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, June 22, 2018\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_tHqXTc_mrz8\" 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%2FtHqXTc_mrz8%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tHqXTc_mrz8\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT3M14S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2018-06-22T15:35:25Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_tHqXTc_mrz8\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FtHqXTc_mrz8%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, June 22, 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\/tHqXTc_mrz8\" 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%2FtHqXTc_mrz8%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, June 22, 2018\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, June 22, 2018 Iranian Charged with Plot to Smuggle Material from Illinois A federal indictment accuses a 56-year-old Iranian businessman of trying to smuggle materials used in the missile industry and restricted under nuclear-nonproliferation rules from Illinois to Iran. Federal prosecutors said Thursday that Saeed Valadbaigi plotted in 2011 to illegally export aluminum tubing used in both the missile and the aerospace industries from Illinois to Iran by way of Belgium and Malaysia. Charges against Valadbaigi include wire fraud and attempting to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Iranian Lawyer Arrested For Claiming Executed Sufi Man&#039;s Innocence Iranian authorities have arrested a lawyer for spreading &quot;lies&quot; after claiming that a Sufi man executed this week was wrongfully convicted of killing three police officers, local media report. The semiofficial Fars news agency said on June 20 that an arrest warrant was issued against Zeinab Taheri for making &quot;false statements&quot; and because of &quot;her lies propagated online claiming [Mohammad Salas] was not guilty.&quot; German Intelligence Chief Warns of Cyberattacks by Iran, Russia and China Germany has voiced concern about increasing cyberattacks from Iran, Russia and China. The head of Germany\u2019s domestic intelligence agency Bfv, Hans-Georg Maassen told the reporting network Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland that the &quot;quantity and quality of cyber campaigns staged by foreign intelligence services has been on the rise&quot; this year. Maassen warned that the intelligence services of Iran, Russia and China might be involved in the new wave of attacks against Germany. 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