{"id":210908,"date":"2018-08-31T18:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/210908-iran-news-in-brief-august-21-2018"},"modified":"2020-01-24T18:04:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T18:04:17","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-august-21-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-august-21-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran news in brief, August 21, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_oogH-X6r61k\"><div id=\"lyte_oogH-X6r61k\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FoogH-X6r61k%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/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\/oogH-X6r61k\" 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%2FoogH-X6r61k%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video thumbnail\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/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, August 21, 2018Two arrested for spying for Iran in U.S. WASHINGTON &#8211; Two Iranian men were indicted on Monday for allegedly spying for Tehran in the [&#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-210908","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, August 21, 2018 - NCRI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, August 21, 2018Two arrested for spying for Iran in U.S. WASHINGTON - Two Iranian men were indicted on Monday for allegedly spying for Tehran in the United States, including conducting surveillance on backers of the Iranian opposition Mujahideen-e Khalq, the Justice Department said.Ahmadreza Mohammadi-Doostdar, 38, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen, and Majid Ghorbani, 59, an Iranian citizen and resident of California, were charged in the indictment with acting on behalf of Iran by conducting the surveillance, the Justice Department said in a statement. Both were arrested on Aug. 9. Reuters reported.Iran Regime Arrests Family Members of the Victims of 1988 Massacre in Fear of Justice-Seeking MovementSimultaneous with the anniversary of the massacre of political prisoners in 1988, and while the nationwide uprising continues, the ruling religious fascism in Iran, in fear of the rise in Justice-Seeking Movement, has arrested a number of families of these martyrs.Iranian Resistance calls on all the people, especially the brave youth, to protest these arrests and show support and solidarity with the prisoners of the uprising..France&#039;s Total Leaves Iran Amid Sanctions Threat from U.S.Iran\u2019s oil minister says the French oil-and-natural-gas company Total has &quot;officially left&quot; Iran amid threats by the United States to impose sanctions against companies that do business in the country.Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zangeneh was quoted by state television on August 20 as saying Total had officially &quot;left the contract to develop the South Pars Gas project.&quot;Conservative MP Insinuates Rouhani Has British CitizenshipThe issue of top Iranian officials and their children who have dual citizenship has once again flared up after a conservative MP indirectly accused the Islamic Republic\u2019s President Hassan Rouhani of being a British citizen.During the presentation of a parliament Investigation and Probe Committee report on Iranian officials who have dual citizenship, it was announced on Sunday, August 19, that one of the Iranian \u201ctop officials\u201d in a \u201cvery high and important position\u201d has British nationality.A hardline MP and member of the Committee, Abolfazl Torabi, maintained, one of the country\u2019s top officials has been naturalized as a British citizen, while studying in Scotland.Although Torabi did not mention Rouhani by name, but, he was apparently referring to the president, whom hardliners are grilling these days.Official says over 3,300 women committed suicide in Iran last yearNew statistics show more than 3,300 women committed suicide in Iran last year. The shocking new figures on suicides in Iran was revealed for the first time by one of the deputies of Iran\u2019s Ministry of Sports and Youth.In light of the Iranian regime\u2019s lack of transparency and the government agencies\u2019 failure to accurately register the date, this figure must be considered only part of the existing reality.Mohammad Mehdi Tondgooyan, deputy for youths\u2019 affairs at the Ministry of Sports and Youth, announced on August 19, 2018, that the suicide rate in Iran was estimated at 4,992 suicides in the year ending in March 2018.On women\u2019s suicides, Tondgooyan said, \u201cIn the whole country, the rate of attempted suicide in women was about two thirds, and one third in men,\u201d implying that nearly 3,300 women committed suicide in Iran in the period of only one year, which amounts to 9 women per day.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-august-21-2018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Iran news in brief, August 21, 2018 - NCRI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, August 21, 2018Two arrested for spying for Iran in U.S. WASHINGTON - Two Iranian men were indicted on Monday for allegedly spying for Tehran in the United States, including conducting surveillance on backers of the Iranian opposition Mujahideen-e Khalq, the Justice Department said.Ahmadreza Mohammadi-Doostdar, 38, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen, and Majid Ghorbani, 59, an Iranian citizen and resident of California, were charged in the indictment with acting on behalf of Iran by conducting the surveillance, the Justice Department said in a statement. 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Reuters reported.Iran Regime Arrests Family Members of the Victims of 1988 Massacre in Fear of Justice-Seeking MovementSimultaneous with the anniversary of the massacre of political prisoners in 1988, and while the nationwide uprising continues, the ruling religious fascism in Iran, in fear of the rise in Justice-Seeking Movement, has arrested a number of families of these martyrs.Iranian Resistance calls on all the people, especially the brave youth, to protest these arrests and show support and solidarity with the prisoners of the uprising..France&#039;s Total Leaves Iran Amid Sanctions Threat from U.S.Iran\u2019s oil minister says the French oil-and-natural-gas company Total has &quot;officially left&quot; Iran amid threats by the United States to impose sanctions against companies that do business in the country.Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zangeneh was quoted by state television on August 20 as saying Total had officially &quot;left the contract to develop the South Pars Gas project.&quot;Conservative MP Insinuates Rouhani Has British CitizenshipThe issue of top Iranian officials and their children who have dual citizenship has once again flared up after a conservative MP indirectly accused the Islamic Republic\u2019s President Hassan Rouhani of being a British citizen.During the presentation of a parliament Investigation and Probe Committee report on Iranian officials who have dual citizenship, it was announced on Sunday, August 19, that one of the Iranian \u201ctop officials\u201d in a \u201cvery high and important position\u201d has British nationality.A hardline MP and member of the Committee, Abolfazl Torabi, maintained, one of the country\u2019s top officials has been naturalized as a British citizen, while studying in Scotland.Although Torabi did not mention Rouhani by name, but, he was apparently referring to the president, whom hardliners are grilling these days.Official says over 3,300 women committed suicide in Iran last yearNew statistics show more than 3,300 women committed suicide in Iran last year. The shocking new figures on suicides in Iran was revealed for the first time by one of the deputies of Iran\u2019s Ministry of Sports and Youth.In light of the Iranian regime\u2019s lack of transparency and the government agencies\u2019 failure to accurately register the date, this figure must be considered only part of the existing reality.Mohammad Mehdi Tondgooyan, deputy for youths\u2019 affairs at the Ministry of Sports and Youth, announced on August 19, 2018, that the suicide rate in Iran was estimated at 4,992 suicides in the year ending in March 2018.On women\u2019s suicides, Tondgooyan said, \u201cIn the whole country, the rate of attempted suicide in women was about two thirds, and one third in men,\u201d implying that nearly 3,300 women committed suicide in Iran in the period of only one year, which amounts to 9 women per day.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-august-21-2018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"NCRI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-08-31T18:00:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-01-24T18:04:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ncri-logo.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"402\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"100\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@iran_policy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@iran_policy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"Article\",\"BlogPosting\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-august-21-2018\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-august-21-2018\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Iran news in brief, August 21, 2018\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-08-31T18:00:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-24T18:04:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-august-21-2018\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":16,\"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-august-21-2018\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-august-21-2018\\\/\",\"name\":\"Iran news in brief, August 21, 2018 - NCRI\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2018-08-31T18:00:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-24T18:04:17+00:00\",\"description\":\"Iran news in brief, August 21, 2018Two arrested for spying for Iran in U.S. WASHINGTON - Two Iranian men were indicted on Monday for allegedly spying for Tehran in the United States, including conducting surveillance on backers of the Iranian opposition Mujahideen-e Khalq, the Justice Department said.Ahmadreza Mohammadi-Doostdar, 38, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen, and Majid Ghorbani, 59, an Iranian citizen and resident of California, were charged in the indictment with acting on behalf of Iran by conducting the surveillance, the Justice Department said in a statement. 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The shocking new figures on suicides in Iran was revealed for the first time by one of the deputies of Iran\u2019s Ministry of Sports and Youth.In light of the Iranian regime\u2019s lack of transparency and the government agencies\u2019 failure to accurately register the date, this figure must be considered only part of the existing reality.Mohammad Mehdi Tondgooyan, deputy for youths\u2019 affairs at the Ministry of Sports and Youth, announced on August 19, 2018, that the suicide rate in Iran was estimated at 4,992 suicides in the year ending in March 2018.On women\u2019s suicides, Tondgooyan said, \u201cIn the whole country, the rate of attempted suicide in women was about two thirds, and one third in men,\u201d implying that nearly 3,300 women committed suicide in Iran in the period of only one year, which amounts to 9 women per day.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-august-21-2018\/","og_site_name":"NCRI","article_published_time":"2018-08-31T18:00:35+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-01-24T18:04:17+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-august-21-2018\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-august-21-2018\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Iran news in brief, August 21, 2018","datePublished":"2018-08-31T18:00:35+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T18:04:17+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-august-21-2018\/"},"wordCount":16,"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-august-21-2018\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-august-21-2018\/","name":"Iran news in brief, August 21, 2018 - NCRI","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2018-08-31T18:00:35+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T18:04:17+00:00","description":"Iran news in brief, August 21, 2018Two arrested for spying for Iran in U.S. WASHINGTON - Two Iranian men were indicted on Monday for allegedly spying for Tehran in the United States, including conducting surveillance on backers of the Iranian opposition Mujahideen-e Khalq, the Justice Department said.Ahmadreza Mohammadi-Doostdar, 38, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen, and Majid Ghorbani, 59, an Iranian citizen and resident of California, were charged in the indictment with acting on behalf of Iran by conducting the surveillance, the Justice Department said in a statement. Both were arrested on Aug. 9. Reuters reported.Iran Regime Arrests Family Members of the Victims of 1988 Massacre in Fear of Justice-Seeking MovementSimultaneous with the anniversary of the massacre of political prisoners in 1988, and while the nationwide uprising continues, the ruling religious fascism in Iran, in fear of the rise in Justice-Seeking Movement, has arrested a number of families of these martyrs.Iranian Resistance calls on all the people, especially the brave youth, to protest these arrests and show support and solidarity with the prisoners of the uprising..France's Total Leaves Iran Amid Sanctions Threat from U.S.Iran\u2019s oil minister says the French oil-and-natural-gas company Total has \"officially left\" Iran amid threats by the United States to impose sanctions against companies that do business in the country.Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zangeneh was quoted by state television on August 20 as saying Total had officially \"left the contract to develop the South Pars Gas project.\"Conservative MP Insinuates Rouhani Has British CitizenshipThe issue of top Iranian officials and their children who have dual citizenship has once again flared up after a conservative MP indirectly accused the Islamic Republic\u2019s President Hassan Rouhani of being a British citizen.During the presentation of a parliament Investigation and Probe Committee report on Iranian officials who have dual citizenship, it was announced on Sunday, August 19, that one of the Iranian \u201ctop officials\u201d in a \u201cvery high and important position\u201d has British nationality.A hardline MP and member of the Committee, Abolfazl Torabi, maintained, one of the country\u2019s top officials has been naturalized as a British citizen, while studying in Scotland.Although Torabi did not mention Rouhani by name, but, he was apparently referring to the president, whom hardliners are grilling these days.Official says over 3,300 women committed suicide in Iran last yearNew statistics show more than 3,300 women committed suicide in Iran last year. 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