{"id":210928,"date":"2018-09-05T19:17:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T19:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/210928-iran-news-in-brief-september-4-2018"},"modified":"2020-01-24T18:04:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T18:04:12","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-september-4-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-september-4-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran news in brief, September 4, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, September 4, 2018\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL__ifoSyClEA0\" 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%2F_ifoSyClEA0%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_ifoSyClEA0\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT4M27S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2018-09-04T21:27:42Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte__ifoSyClEA0\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F_ifoSyClEA0%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, September 4, 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\/_ifoSyClEA0\" 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%2F_ifoSyClEA0%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, September 4, 2018\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, September 4, 2018 Iranian boy tells horrific story of why a Tehran officer cut his ear Tehran municipality officers cut off a child\u2019s ear because they found him looking in trash for anything to sell and make a living, Iranian media outlets reports on Monday. The incident sparked controversy in Iran after a video of the child talking to a journalist and telling him how the municipality officers in Tehran cut off his ear using a blade because they found him looking in the trash circulated on social media networks. Child labor is common in Iran as children are exploited to collect garbage across different cities. Even regime officials acknowledge this phenomenon. Elham Fakhari, the chairperson of the social affairs committee in Tehran\u2019s municipal council, had said that contractors exploit children to collect garbage for cheap wages and under difficult working conditions. Iran: Self-immolation of a man to protest closure of his shop A citizen set himself on fire in front of municipality of Tehran, after the municipality sealed his shop. He was also trying to burn his child that people prevented him. Iranian currency hits record low at 128,000 rials to the dollar The Iranian rial hit a record low against the US dollar on the unofficial market on Monday amid a deterioration in the economic situation and the re-imposition of sanctions by the United States. The dollar was being offered for as much as 128,000 rials, according to foreign exchange website Bonbast.com, which tracks the unofficial market. The currency has been volatile for months because of a weak economy, financial difficulties at local banks and heavy demand for dollars among Iranians who fear the pullout of Washington from a landmark 2015 nuclear deal and renewed US sanctions could shrink Iran&#039;s exports of oil and other goods. A set of US sanctions targeting Iran\u2019s oil industry is due to take effect in November. Three Retribution Execution Sentences Carried Out in Zahedan Three prisoners at Zahedan Prison were executed in the early morning hours of September 3, 2018 \u2014 sooner than expected \u2014 reportedly in a vindictive response to recent skirmishes between security forces and an armed opposition group based in the Sistan &amp; Baluchestan province. Though all three prisoners were already on death row, the carrying out of their sentence so soon after the clash gives reason to read the timing as a retaliatory gesture. Sistan &amp; Baluchestan has a history of politically-motivated executions. At least 16 prisoners were put to death in similar circumstances in October of 2013. Iran Regime using civilian flights to smuggle arms to Hezbollah Iran Regime is using a civilian airline to smuggle arms to the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, Fox News reported Monday, citing Western intelligence officials who tracked two unscheduled flights in recent months. The intelligence officials told Fox the flights were believed to be carrying components for manufacturing precise weapons in Iranian factories inside Lebanon. \u201cThe Iranians are trying to come up with new ways and routes to smuggle weapons from Iran to its allies in the Middle East, testing and defying the West\u2019s abilities to track them down,\u201d a regional intelligence officer told Fox.\"><\/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, September 4, 2018Iranian boy tells horrific story of why a Tehran officer cut his ear Tehran municipality officers cut off a child&rsquo;s ear because they found [&#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-210928","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, September 4, 2018 - NCRI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, September 4, 2018Iranian boy tells horrific story of why a Tehran officer cut his ear Tehran municipality officers cut off a child\u2019s ear because they found him looking in trash for anything to sell and make a living, Iranian media outlets reports on Monday.The incident sparked controversy in Iran after a video of the child talking to a journalist and telling him how the municipality officers in Tehran cut off his ear using a blade because they found him looking in the trash circulated on social media networks.Child labor is common in Iran as children are exploited to collect garbage across different cities. Even regime officials acknowledge this phenomenon. Elham Fakhari, the chairperson of the social affairs committee in Tehran\u2019s municipal council, had said that contractors exploit children to collect garbage for cheap wages and under difficult working conditions. Iran: Self-immolation of a man to protest closure of his shopA citizen set himself on fire in front of municipality of Tehran, after the municipality sealed his shop. He was also trying to burn his child that people prevented him.Iranian currency hits record low at 128,000 rials to the dollarThe Iranian rial hit a record low against the US dollar on the unofficial market on Monday amid a deterioration in the economic situation and the re-imposition of sanctions by the United States.The dollar was being offered for as much as 128,000 rials, according to foreign exchange website Bonbast.com, which tracks the unofficial market.The currency has been volatile for months because of a weak economy, financial difficulties at local banks and heavy demand for dollars among Iranians who fear the pullout of Washington from a landmark 2015 nuclear deal and renewed US sanctions could shrink Iran&#039;s exports of oil and other goods.A set of US sanctions targeting Iran\u2019s oil industry is due to take effect in November.Three Retribution Execution Sentences Carried Out in ZahedanThree prisoners at Zahedan Prison were executed in the early morning hours of September 3, 2018 \u2014 sooner than expected \u2014 reportedly in a vindictive response to recent skirmishes between security forces and an armed opposition group based in the Sistan &amp; Baluchestan province.Though all three prisoners were already on death row, the carrying out of their sentence so soon after the clash gives reason to read the timing as a retaliatory gesture.Sistan &amp; Baluchestan has a history of politically-motivated executions. At least 16 prisoners were put to death in similar circumstances in October of 2013. Iran Regime using civilian flights to smuggle arms to Hezbollah Iran Regime is using a civilian airline to smuggle arms to the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, Fox News reported Monday, citing Western intelligence officials who tracked two unscheduled flights in recent months.The intelligence officials told Fox the flights were believed to be carrying components for manufacturing precise weapons in Iranian factories inside Lebanon.\u201cThe Iranians are trying to come up with new ways and routes to smuggle weapons from Iran to its allies in the Middle East, testing and defying the West\u2019s abilities to track them down,\u201d a regional intelligence officer told Fox.\" \/>\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-september-4-2018\/\" \/>\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, September 4, 2018 - NCRI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, September 4, 2018Iranian boy tells horrific story of why a Tehran officer cut his ear Tehran municipality officers cut off a child\u2019s ear because they found him looking in trash for anything to sell and make a living, Iranian media outlets reports on Monday.The incident sparked controversy in Iran after a video of the child talking to a journalist and telling him how the municipality officers in Tehran cut off his ear using a blade because they found him looking in the trash circulated on social media networks.Child labor is common in Iran as children are exploited to collect garbage across different cities. Even regime officials acknowledge this phenomenon. Elham Fakhari, the chairperson of the social affairs committee in Tehran\u2019s municipal council, had said that contractors exploit children to collect garbage for cheap wages and under difficult working conditions. Iran: Self-immolation of a man to protest closure of his shopA citizen set himself on fire in front of municipality of Tehran, after the municipality sealed his shop. He was also trying to burn his child that people prevented him.Iranian currency hits record low at 128,000 rials to the dollarThe Iranian rial hit a record low against the US dollar on the unofficial market on Monday amid a deterioration in the economic situation and the re-imposition of sanctions by the United States.The dollar was being offered for as much as 128,000 rials, according to foreign exchange website Bonbast.com, which tracks the unofficial market.The currency has been volatile for months because of a weak economy, financial difficulties at local banks and heavy demand for dollars among Iranians who fear the pullout of Washington from a landmark 2015 nuclear deal and renewed US sanctions could shrink Iran&#039;s exports of oil and other goods.A set of US sanctions targeting Iran\u2019s oil industry is due to take effect in November.Three Retribution Execution Sentences Carried Out in ZahedanThree prisoners at Zahedan Prison were executed in the early morning hours of September 3, 2018 \u2014 sooner than expected \u2014 reportedly in a vindictive response to recent skirmishes between security forces and an armed opposition group based in the Sistan &amp; Baluchestan province.Though all three prisoners were already on death row, the carrying out of their sentence so soon after the clash gives reason to read the timing as a retaliatory gesture.Sistan &amp; Baluchestan has a history of politically-motivated executions. At least 16 prisoners were put to death in similar circumstances in October of 2013. Iran Regime using civilian flights to smuggle arms to Hezbollah Iran Regime is using a civilian airline to smuggle arms to the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, Fox News reported Monday, citing Western intelligence officials who tracked two unscheduled flights in recent months.The intelligence officials told Fox the flights were believed to be carrying components for manufacturing precise weapons in Iranian factories inside Lebanon.\u201cThe Iranians are trying to come up with new ways and routes to smuggle weapons from Iran to its allies in the Middle East, testing and defying the West\u2019s abilities to track them down,\u201d a regional intelligence officer told Fox.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-september-4-2018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"NCRI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-09-05T19:17:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-01-24T18:04:12+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-september-4-2018\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-september-4-2018\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Iran news in brief, September 4, 2018\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-09-05T19:17:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-24T18:04:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-september-4-2018\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":12,\"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-september-4-2018\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-september-4-2018\\\/\",\"name\":\"Iran news in brief, September 4, 2018 - NCRI\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2018-09-05T19:17:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-24T18:04:12+00:00\",\"description\":\"Iran news in brief, September 4, 2018Iranian boy tells horrific story of why a Tehran officer cut his ear Tehran municipality officers cut off a child\u2019s ear because they found him looking in trash for anything to sell and make a living, Iranian media outlets reports on Monday.The incident sparked controversy in Iran after a video of the child talking to a journalist and telling him how the municipality officers in Tehran cut off his ear using a blade because they found him looking in the trash circulated on social media networks.Child labor is common in Iran as children are exploited to collect garbage across different cities. Even regime officials acknowledge this phenomenon. Elham Fakhari, the chairperson of the social affairs committee in Tehran\u2019s municipal council, had said that contractors exploit children to collect garbage for cheap wages and under difficult working conditions. Iran: Self-immolation of a man to protest closure of his shopA citizen set himself on fire in front of municipality of Tehran, after the municipality sealed his shop. He was also trying to burn his child that people prevented him.Iranian currency hits record low at 128,000 rials to the dollarThe Iranian rial hit a record low against the US dollar on the unofficial market on Monday amid a deterioration in the economic situation and the re-imposition of sanctions by the United States.The dollar was being offered for as much as 128,000 rials, according to foreign exchange website Bonbast.com, which tracks the unofficial market.The currency has been volatile for months because of a weak economy, financial difficulties at local banks and heavy demand for dollars among Iranians who fear the pullout of Washington from a landmark 2015 nuclear deal and renewed US sanctions could shrink Iran's exports of oil and other goods.A set of US sanctions targeting Iran\u2019s oil industry is due to take effect in November.Three Retribution Execution Sentences Carried Out in ZahedanThree prisoners at Zahedan Prison were executed in the early morning hours of September 3, 2018 \u2014 sooner than expected \u2014 reportedly in a vindictive response to recent skirmishes between security forces and an armed opposition group based in the Sistan &amp; Baluchestan province.Though all three prisoners were already on death row, the carrying out of their sentence so soon after the clash gives reason to read the timing as a retaliatory gesture.Sistan &amp; Baluchestan has a history of politically-motivated executions. 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At least 16 prisoners were put to death in similar circumstances in October of 2013. Iran Regime using civilian flights to smuggle arms to Hezbollah Iran Regime is using a civilian airline to smuggle arms to the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, Fox News reported Monday, citing Western intelligence officials who tracked two unscheduled flights in recent months.The intelligence officials told Fox the flights were believed to be carrying components for manufacturing precise weapons in Iranian factories inside Lebanon.\u201cThe Iranians are trying to come up with new ways and routes to smuggle weapons from Iran to its allies in the Middle East, testing and defying the West\u2019s abilities to track them down,\u201d a regional intelligence officer told Fox.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-september-4-2018\/","og_site_name":"NCRI","article_published_time":"2018-09-05T19:17:44+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-01-24T18:04:12+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-september-4-2018\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-september-4-2018\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Iran news in brief, September 4, 2018","datePublished":"2018-09-05T19:17:44+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T18:04:12+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-september-4-2018\/"},"wordCount":12,"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-september-4-2018\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-september-4-2018\/","name":"Iran news in brief, September 4, 2018 - NCRI","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2018-09-05T19:17:44+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T18:04:12+00:00","description":"Iran news in brief, September 4, 2018Iranian boy tells horrific story of why a Tehran officer cut his ear Tehran municipality officers cut off a child\u2019s ear because they found him looking in trash for anything to sell and make a living, Iranian media outlets reports on Monday.The incident sparked controversy in Iran after a video of the child talking to a journalist and telling him how the municipality officers in Tehran cut off his ear using a blade because they found him looking in the trash circulated on social media networks.Child labor is common in Iran as children are exploited to collect garbage across different cities. Even regime officials acknowledge this phenomenon. Elham Fakhari, the chairperson of the social affairs committee in Tehran\u2019s municipal council, had said that contractors exploit children to collect garbage for cheap wages and under difficult working conditions. Iran: Self-immolation of a man to protest closure of his shopA citizen set himself on fire in front of municipality of Tehran, after the municipality sealed his shop. He was also trying to burn his child that people prevented him.Iranian currency hits record low at 128,000 rials to the dollarThe Iranian rial hit a record low against the US dollar on the unofficial market on Monday amid a deterioration in the economic situation and the re-imposition of sanctions by the United States.The dollar was being offered for as much as 128,000 rials, according to foreign exchange website Bonbast.com, which tracks the unofficial market.The currency has been volatile for months because of a weak economy, financial difficulties at local banks and heavy demand for dollars among Iranians who fear the pullout of Washington from a landmark 2015 nuclear deal and renewed US sanctions could shrink Iran's exports of oil and other goods.A set of US sanctions targeting Iran\u2019s oil industry is due to take effect in November.Three Retribution Execution Sentences Carried Out in ZahedanThree prisoners at Zahedan Prison were executed in the early morning hours of September 3, 2018 \u2014 sooner than expected \u2014 reportedly in a vindictive response to recent skirmishes between security forces and an armed opposition group based in the Sistan &amp; Baluchestan province.Though all three prisoners were already on death row, the carrying out of their sentence so soon after the clash gives reason to read the timing as a retaliatory gesture.Sistan &amp; Baluchestan has a history of politically-motivated executions. At least 16 prisoners were put to death in similar circumstances in October of 2013. 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