{"id":210828,"date":"2018-07-20T18:04:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T18:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/210828-iran-news-in-brief-july-20-2018"},"modified":"2020-01-24T18:05:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T18:05:44","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-july-20-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-july-20-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran news in brief, July 20, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, July 20, 2018\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_BOjKKnfTpzs\" 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%2FBOjKKnfTpzs%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BOjKKnfTpzs\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT2M44S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2018-07-20T14:59:03Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_BOjKKnfTpzs\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FBOjKKnfTpzs%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, July 20, 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\/BOjKKnfTpzs\" 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%2FBOjKKnfTpzs%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, July 20, 2018\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, July 20, 2018 U.S. Delegation to Meet Turkish Officials On Iran Sanctions A U.S. delegation of Treasury and State Department officials will meet Turkish authorities on Friday to discuss sanctions targeting Iran, an official from Turkey&#039;s foreign ministry said. &quot;A U.S. delegation currently holding talks in India will be visiting Ankara on Friday regarding sanctions against Iran,&quot; a foreign ministry official told Reuters. &quot;The delegation will meet with related institutions, including from the foreign and finance ministries.&quot; Hundreds of Dervishes Given Harsh Sentences Tehran\u2019s prosecutor Jafari Dolatabad says verdicts have been issued against 258 Iranian dervishes of the Gonabadi order, state-run news agency IRNA reported July 17. Dolatabadi described the condemned dervishes, who are adherents to a minority Sufi Muslim faith, as the \u201celements of last February\u2019s turmoil,\u201d a reference to several days of protests by dervishes in February in Tehran that saw hundreds arrested and at least five dead. Christian Kurdish woman arrested with her son by intelligence forces Christian Kurdish woman, Massoumeh Taqinejad, 30, from Kermanshah in western Iran, was arrested and detained along with her son, Artin, in a raid by intelligence forces on her residence in Karaj, on July 2, 2018. This Christian Kurdish woman is charged with \u201cproselytizing Christianity\u201d on the internet. Her computer and personal belongings were confiscated by the intelligence agents at the time of her arrest. 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