{"id":210822,"date":"2018-07-20T18:00:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T18:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/210822-iran-news-in-brief-july-17-2018"},"modified":"2020-01-24T18:05:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T18:05:45","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-july-17-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-july-17-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran news in brief, July 17, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, July 17, 2018\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_AqxH7KOfQ6E\" 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%2FAqxH7KOfQ6E%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AqxH7KOfQ6E\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT4M59S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2018-07-17T09:54:47Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_AqxH7KOfQ6E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FAqxH7KOfQ6E%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, July 17, 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\/AqxH7KOfQ6E\" 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%2FAqxH7KOfQ6E%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, July 17, 2018\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, July 17, 2018 Mnuchin Says U.S. Will Consider Some Waivers On Iran Sanctions The United States wants to avoid disrupting global oil markets as it reimposes sanctions against Tehran and in certain cases will consider waivers for countries which need more time to wind down their oil imports from Iran, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said. &quot;We want people to reduce oil purchases to zero, but in certain cases if people can&#039;t do that overnight, we&#039;ll consider exceptions,&quot; Mnuchin told reporters on Friday, clarifying some U.S. officials&#039; comments that there would be no exemptions. Mnuchin&#039;s comments were embargoed for release on Monday. &quot;We&#039;ve said very specifically, there&#039;s no blanket waivers, there&#039;s no grandfathering,&quot; Mnuchin said, &quot;We want to be very careful in the wind-down around the energy markets to make sure that people have the time.&quot; Iran threatening German state\u2019s stability with WMD: Intel report Iran, July 16, 2018 - The Iranian regime has been singled out in a new German intelligence report as one of two countries seeking to obtain weapons of mass destruction, according to a text published by the state of Hesse. The document, obtained by the media, reads in part: \u201cWeapons of mass destruction are a continued instrument of power politics that also, in regional and international crises situations, can shatter the entire stability of state structures. States like Iran and North Korea attempt, in the context of proliferation, to acquire and spread such weapons by, for example, disguising the transportation ways through third countries.\u201d The Iranian regime intelligence apparatus\u2019 objective is \u201cto circumvent control mechanisms in countries that are not especially subject to embargo restrictions,\u201d the report covering the year of 2016 adds. Iranian Pilot Arrested After Revealing Safety Lapses On A TV Show An Iranian pilot who recently made revelations about gross safety violations by Iranian airlines was arrested on Sunday, July 15 in Tehran for a few hours. Five days earlier, Sadeghi appeared on a popular TV show on channel 3 of Iranian state TV and revealed that Iranian airlines put pressure on the pilots to fly planes with technical flaws. Protest of Farmers and Gardeners Continues in Western Isfahan On Monday morning, July 16, 2018, for the second day in a row, the tired and underprivileged farmers and gardeners in Isfahan gathered in front of the city\u2019s water organization in protest against the lack of water and the destruction of their agricultural farming lands and assets. The farmers and gardeners in the western cities of Isfahan demanded their water rights for the second day in a row. Protest of Looted Investors of Melal Credit Institution in Gachsaran On Monday morning, July 16, 2018, the looted investors of the Melal Credit Institute in Gachsaran closed the door of the institute in protest to the looting and plundering of their assets. The financial and credit institution of Melal in the Gachsaran Branch was formally named Arman and was active from 2012 to 2017 in Gachsaran. The 120,000-populated city of Gachsaran is located in the southwest of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. Sufi woman Sepideh Moradi refused to appear in court Sufi woman Sepideh Moradi refused to appear before the court on Saturday, July 14, 2018. Imprisoned in Qarchak Prison (a.k.a. Shahr-e Ray) in Varamin, Sufi woman Sepideh Moradi Sarvestani is protesting denial of access to defense lawyers for Sufi prisoners and the prison authorities\u2019 failure to observe the due process of law. Sufi woman Sepideh Moradi was summoned on July 14, 2018, by the 15th Branch of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran by the notorious Judge Salavati. Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian urges end to executions Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian called on the people of Iran as well as international human rights organizations to take action to abolish the death penalty in Iran. Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian who was herself on the death row for four years, has written an open letter addressed to death-row political prisoners Ramin Hossein Panahi, Zanyar and Loghman Moradi, Kamal Hassan Ramezan, etc., calling on the people of Iran and human rights organizations around the world to form a front against the death penalty.\"><\/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, July 17, 2018Mnuchin Says U.S. Will Consider Some Waivers On Iran Sanctions The United States wants to avoid disrupting global oil markets as it reimposes sanctions [&#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-210822","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, July 17, 2018 - NCRI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, July 17, 2018Mnuchin Says U.S. Will Consider Some Waivers On Iran Sanctions The United States wants to avoid disrupting global oil markets as it reimposes sanctions against Tehran and in certain cases will consider waivers for countries which need more time to wind down their oil imports from Iran, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said.&quot;We want people to reduce oil purchases to zero, but in certain cases if people can&#039;t do that overnight, we&#039;ll consider exceptions,&quot; Mnuchin told reporters on Friday, clarifying some U.S. officials&#039; comments that there would be no exemptions. Mnuchin&#039;s comments were embargoed for release on Monday.&quot;We&#039;ve said very specifically, there&#039;s no blanket waivers, there&#039;s no grandfathering,&quot; Mnuchin said, &quot;We want to be very careful in the wind-down around the energy markets to make sure that people have the time.&quot;Iran threatening German state\u2019s stability with WMD: Intel reportIran, July 16, 2018 - The Iranian regime has been singled out in a new German intelligence report as one of two countries seeking to obtain weapons of mass destruction, according to a text published by the state of Hesse.The document, obtained by the media, reads in part:\u201cWeapons of mass destruction are a continued instrument of power politics that also, in regional and international crises situations, can shatter the entire stability of state structures. 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Mnuchin's comments were embargoed for release on Monday.\"We've said very specifically, there's no blanket waivers, there's no grandfathering,\" Mnuchin said, \"We want to be very careful in the wind-down around the energy markets to make sure that people have the time.\"Iran threatening German state\u2019s stability with WMD: Intel reportIran, July 16, 2018 - The Iranian regime has been singled out in a new German intelligence report as one of two countries seeking to obtain weapons of mass destruction, according to a text published by the state of Hesse.The document, obtained by the media, reads in part:\u201cWeapons of mass destruction are a continued instrument of power politics that also, in regional and international crises situations, can shatter the entire stability of state structures. States like Iran and North Korea attempt, in the context of proliferation, to acquire and spread such weapons by, for example, disguising the transportation ways through third countries.\u201dThe Iranian regime intelligence apparatus\u2019 objective is \u201cto circumvent control mechanisms in countries that are not especially subject to embargo restrictions,\u201d the report covering the year of 2016 adds.Iranian Pilot Arrested After Revealing Safety Lapses On A TV ShowAn Iranian pilot who recently made revelations about gross safety violations by Iranian airlines was arrested on Sunday, July 15 in Tehran for a few hours.Five days earlier, Sadeghi appeared on a popular TV show on channel 3 of Iranian state TV and revealed that Iranian airlines put pressure on the pilots to fly planes with technical flaws.Protest of Farmers and Gardeners Continues in Western IsfahanOn Monday morning, July 16, 2018, for the second day in a row, the tired and underprivileged farmers and gardeners in Isfahan gathered in front of the city\u2019s water organization in protest against the lack of water and the destruction of their agricultural farming lands and assets.The farmers and gardeners in the western cities of Isfahan demanded their water rights for the second day in a row.Protest of Looted Investors of Melal Credit Institution in GachsaranOn Monday morning, July 16, 2018, the looted investors of the Melal Credit Institute in Gachsaran closed the door of the institute in protest to the looting and plundering of their assets.The financial and credit institution of Melal in the Gachsaran Branch was formally named Arman and was active from 2012 to 2017 in Gachsaran.The 120,000-populated city of Gachsaran is located in the southwest of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran.Sufi woman Sepideh Moradi refused to appear in courtSufi woman Sepideh Moradi refused to appear before the court on Saturday, July 14, 2018.Imprisoned in Qarchak Prison (a.k.a. Shahr-e Ray) in Varamin, Sufi woman Sepideh Moradi Sarvestani is protesting denial of access to defense lawyers for Sufi prisoners and the prison authorities\u2019 failure to observe the due process of law.Sufi woman Sepideh Moradi was summoned on July 14, 2018, by the 15th Branch of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran by the notorious Judge Salavati.Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian urges end to executionsKurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian called on the people of Iran as well as international human rights organizations to take action to abolish the death penalty in Iran.Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian who was herself on the death row for four years, has written an open letter addressed to death-row political prisoners Ramin Hossein Panahi, Zanyar and Loghman Moradi, Kamal Hassan Ramezan, etc., calling on the people of Iran and human rights organizations around the world to form a front against the death penalty.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-july-17-2018\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Iran news in brief, July 17, 2018 - NCRI","og_description":"Iran news in brief, July 17, 2018Mnuchin Says U.S. Will Consider Some Waivers On Iran Sanctions The United States wants to avoid disrupting global oil markets as it reimposes sanctions against Tehran and in certain cases will consider waivers for countries which need more time to wind down their oil imports from Iran, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said.\"We want people to reduce oil purchases to zero, but in certain cases if people can't do that overnight, we'll consider exceptions,\" Mnuchin told reporters on Friday, clarifying some U.S. officials' comments that there would be no exemptions. Mnuchin's comments were embargoed for release on Monday.\"We've said very specifically, there's no blanket waivers, there's no grandfathering,\" Mnuchin said, \"We want to be very careful in the wind-down around the energy markets to make sure that people have the time.\"Iran threatening German state\u2019s stability with WMD: Intel reportIran, July 16, 2018 - The Iranian regime has been singled out in a new German intelligence report as one of two countries seeking to obtain weapons of mass destruction, according to a text published by the state of Hesse.The document, obtained by the media, reads in part:\u201cWeapons of mass destruction are a continued instrument of power politics that also, in regional and international crises situations, can shatter the entire stability of state structures. 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