{"id":210901,"date":"2018-08-19T19:36:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T19:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/210901-iran-news-in-brief-august-16-2018"},"modified":"2020-01-24T18:04:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T18:04:22","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-august-16-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-august-16-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran news in brief, August 16, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, August 16, 2018\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_hVr_QKcKuEM\" 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%2FhVr_QKcKuEM%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hVr_QKcKuEM\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT3M38S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2018-08-16T18:04:48Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_hVr_QKcKuEM\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FhVr_QKcKuEM%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, August 16, 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\/hVr_QKcKuEM\" 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%2FhVr_QKcKuEM%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, August 16, 2018\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, August 16, 2018 Crowd surrounds Iranian policemen who brutally beat street vendor A video of a large crowd surrounding Iranian policemen in Tehran after they viciously beat up a street vendor and destroyed his small cart was widely circulated on social media on Wednesday. A group of young men surrounded the policemen who were sat in their car. People in the crowd are heard demanding that the policemen get out of their car, chanting \u201ccome out\u201d, but they refuse and cover their faces so as not to appear on camera. Millions of Iranian citizens work as street vendors to make ends meet amid the rising poverty and ailing economic situation in the country. However, Iranian authorities legally ban those people from selling on the streets because of increasing complaints from storeowners. Protests have heightened in the country, where on several occasions, demonstrators chant \u201cNot Gaza, not Lebanon, my soul is for Iran\u201d in what translates public anger towards the spending of billions of Iranian money on militias who meddle in the affairs of Arab states. Iran regime Minister Shocked by &#36;250 Billion of Import Requests Iran\u2019s Minister of Industry, Mines and Business says, fluctuations in the local forex market in the past four months have tripled the number of applications for import licenses worth &#36;250 billion dollar. Describing the figure as \u201cunbelievable\u201d, Mohammad Shariatmadari has insisted that a \u201cnumber of\u201d profiteering individuals are trying to \u201cfish in troubled waters\u201d, referring to the current currency and economic crisis. The figure of &#36;250 billion is almost triple of Iran&#039;s annual oil income. Import applications mean requests by importers to receive cheaper, subsidized dollars or other hard currencies from the government. Women played prominent roles in recent protests in Tehran and Rasht On August 14, women joined the protest rally of plundered investors of Caspian Credit and Alborz Iranian institutes in front of the Central Bank in Tehran, Iran. The protesting crowd slammed the regime\u2019s hollow promises and demanded their money back after two years of protests. They accused the officials of lying and turning a blind eye on their empty baskets. Women played prominent roles also in the protest by employees of the Edalat Stocks company held outside the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance in Tehran. Tehran Official: &#039;Tsunami&#039; of Poverty Bearing Down on Iran A municipal leader in the Iranian capital, Tehran, has issued a stark warning about Iran&#039;s economic problems, saying a &quot;tsunami&quot; of poverty is bearing down on society. Iranian state media said Tehran City Council Chairman Mohsen Hashemi Rafsanjani made the comment in a Tuesday speech about urban governance in the capital. &quot;Today, poverty is bearing down on society like a tsunami,&quot; Rafsanjani was quoted as saying. 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People in the crowd are heard demanding that the policemen get out of their car, chanting \u201ccome out\u201d, but they refuse and cover their faces so as not to appear on camera.Millions of Iranian citizens work as street vendors to make ends meet amid the rising poverty and ailing economic situation in the country. However, Iranian authorities legally ban those people from selling on the streets because of increasing complaints from storeowners.Protests have heightened in the country, where on several occasions, demonstrators chant \u201cNot Gaza, not Lebanon, my soul is for Iran\u201d in what translates public anger towards the spending of billions of Iranian money on militias who meddle in the affairs of Arab states.Iran regime Minister Shocked by $250 Billion of Import RequestsIran\u2019s Minister of Industry, Mines and Business says, fluctuations in the local forex market in the past four months have tripled the number of applications for import licenses worth $250 billion dollar.Describing the figure as \u201cunbelievable\u201d, Mohammad Shariatmadari has insisted that a \u201cnumber of\u201d profiteering individuals are trying to \u201cfish in troubled waters\u201d, referring to the current currency and economic crisis.The figure of $250 billion is almost triple of Iran's annual oil income.Import applications mean requests by importers to receive cheaper, subsidized dollars or other hard currencies from the government.Women played prominent roles in recent protests in Tehran and RashtOn August 14, women joined the protest rally of plundered investors of Caspian Credit and Alborz Iranian institutes in front of the Central Bank in Tehran, Iran. The protesting crowd slammed the regime\u2019s hollow promises and demanded their money back after two years of protests. They accused the officials of lying and turning a blind eye on their empty baskets.Women played prominent roles also in the protest by employees of the Edalat Stocks company held outside the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance in Tehran.Tehran Official: 'Tsunami' of Poverty Bearing Down on IranA municipal leader in the Iranian capital, Tehran, has issued a stark warning about Iran's economic problems, saying a \"tsunami\" of poverty is bearing down on society.Iranian state media said Tehran City Council Chairman Mohsen Hashemi Rafsanjani made the comment in a Tuesday speech about urban governance in the capital.\"Today, poverty is bearing down on society like a tsunami,\" Rafsanjani was quoted as saying. 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