{"id":210956,"date":"2018-09-18T09:24:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T09:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/210956-iran-news-in-brief-september-18-2018"},"modified":"2020-01-24T17:49:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:49:34","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-september-18-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-september-18-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran news in brief, September 18, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, September 18, 2018\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_lpi2WQnUMeA\" 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%2Flpi2WQnUMeA%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lpi2WQnUMeA\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT2M58S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2018-09-18T09:01:03Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_lpi2WQnUMeA\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Flpi2WQnUMeA%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, September 18, 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\/lpi2WQnUMeA\" 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%2Flpi2WQnUMeA%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, September 18, 2018\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, September 18, 2018 21 killed in a bus crash in central Iran At least 21 people have died in a road accident when a bus overturned following a collision with a tanker in central Iran. The collision, which occurred around 11:15 pm local time on Monday, triggered a fireball that engulfed both the truck and the bus on the motorway between Kashan and Natanz, more than 200 kilometers south of the capital Tehran. Amateur video broadcast on Iranian media shows a burning bus, with flames rising into the night sky. Iran has one of the highest road death rates in the world, with health ministry officials reporting around 16,300 killed in the Iranian year that ended in March and a further 336,000 injured. Among the main causes are reckless driving, the poor quality of the road network, particularly in rural areas, and the large number of domestically manufactured vehicles equipped with outdated technology. Pompeo Hails Success of Sanctions While Iran Says It &#039;Dooms&#039; The Region U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a September 16 tweet, &quot;many countries are taking actions to leave Iran&quot; as &quot;a different set of rules&quot; would apply to &quot;anyone who wants to engage in economic activity with the regime in Iran\u201d. Secretary Pompeo was referring to the arrangements that would be enforced after the second round of sanctions on Iran take effect starting from November 4 and will target Iran&#039;s oil export and banking system. The sanctions are part of U.S. measures against Iran following Washington&#039;s withdrawal from the nuclear deal with Iran on May 8. PMOI\/MEK resistance units make further calls for regime change As the regime in Iran faces increasing crises inside the country and on the international spectrum, members of Resistance Units associated to the Iranian Opposition People&#039;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) are embracing the occasion of a religious month in the Moslem calendar to expand their activities across the country and furthering their call for regime change. These measures are very dangerous and if arrested these individuals will certainly face the threat of being executed as the Iranian regime considers any support for the PMOI\/MEK as punishable by death.\"><\/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 18, 201821 killed in a bus crash in central Iran At least 21 people have died in a road accident when a bus overturned following [&#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":["post-210956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-iran-news-in-brief","tag-save"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Iran news in brief, September 18, 2018 - NCRI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, September 18, 201821 killed in a bus crash in central Iran At least 21 people have died in a road accident when a bus overturned following a collision with a tanker in central Iran.The collision, which occurred around 11:15 pm local time on Monday, triggered a fireball that engulfed both the truck and the bus on the motorway between Kashan and Natanz, more than 200 kilometers south of the capital Tehran.Amateur video broadcast on Iranian media shows a burning bus, with flames rising into the night sky.Iran has one of the highest road death rates in the world, with health ministry officials reporting around 16,300 killed in the Iranian year that ended in March and a further 336,000 injured.Among the main causes are reckless driving, the poor quality of the road network, particularly in rural areas, and the large number of domestically manufactured vehicles equipped with outdated technology.Pompeo Hails Success of Sanctions While Iran Says It &#039;Dooms&#039; The RegionU.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a September 16 tweet, &quot;many countries are taking actions to leave Iran&quot; as &quot;a different set of rules&quot; would apply to &quot;anyone who wants to engage in economic activity with the regime in Iran\u201d.Secretary Pompeo was referring to the arrangements that would be enforced after the second round of sanctions on Iran take effect starting from November 4 and will target Iran&#039;s oil export and banking system.The sanctions are part of U.S. measures against Iran following Washington&#039;s withdrawal from the nuclear deal with Iran on May 8.PMOI\/MEK resistance units make further calls for regime changeAs the regime in Iran faces increasing crises inside the country and on the international spectrum, members of Resistance Units associated to the Iranian Opposition People&#039;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) are embracing the occasion of a religious month in the Moslem calendar to expand their activities across the country and furthering their call for regime change.These measures are very dangerous and if arrested these individuals will certainly face the threat of being executed as the Iranian regime considers any support for the PMOI\/MEK as punishable by death.\" \/>\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-18-2018\/\" \/>\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 18, 2018 - NCRI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, September 18, 201821 killed in a bus crash in central Iran At least 21 people have died in a road accident when a bus overturned following a collision with a tanker in central Iran.The collision, which occurred around 11:15 pm local time on Monday, triggered a fireball that engulfed both the truck and the bus on the motorway between Kashan and Natanz, more than 200 kilometers south of the capital Tehran.Amateur video broadcast on Iranian media shows a burning bus, with flames rising into the night sky.Iran has one of the highest road death rates in the world, with health ministry officials reporting around 16,300 killed in the Iranian year that ended in March and a further 336,000 injured.Among the main causes are reckless driving, the poor quality of the road network, particularly in rural areas, and the large number of domestically manufactured vehicles equipped with outdated technology.Pompeo Hails Success of Sanctions While Iran Says It &#039;Dooms&#039; The RegionU.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a September 16 tweet, &quot;many countries are taking actions to leave Iran&quot; as &quot;a different set of rules&quot; would apply to &quot;anyone who wants to engage in economic activity with the regime in Iran\u201d.Secretary Pompeo was referring to the arrangements that would be enforced after the second round of sanctions on Iran take effect starting from November 4 and will target Iran&#039;s oil export and banking system.The sanctions are part of U.S. measures against Iran following Washington&#039;s withdrawal from the nuclear deal with Iran on May 8.PMOI\/MEK resistance units make further calls for regime changeAs the regime in Iran faces increasing crises inside the country and on the international spectrum, members of Resistance Units associated to the Iranian Opposition People&#039;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) are embracing the occasion of a religious month in the Moslem calendar to expand their activities across the country and furthering their call for regime change.These measures are very dangerous and if arrested these individuals will certainly face the threat of being executed as the Iranian regime considers any support for the PMOI\/MEK as punishable by death.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-september-18-2018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"NCRI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-09-18T09:24:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-01-24T17:49:34+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-18-2018\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-september-18-2018\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Iran news in brief, September 18, 2018\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-09-18T09:24:13+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-24T17:49:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-september-18-2018\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":13,\"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-18-2018\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-september-18-2018\\\/\",\"name\":\"Iran news in brief, September 18, 2018 - NCRI\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2018-09-18T09:24:13+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-24T17:49:34+00:00\",\"description\":\"Iran news in brief, September 18, 201821 killed in a bus crash in central Iran At least 21 people have died in a road accident when a bus overturned following a collision with a tanker in central Iran.The collision, which occurred around 11:15 pm local time on Monday, triggered a fireball that engulfed both the truck and the bus on the motorway between Kashan and Natanz, more than 200 kilometers south of the capital Tehran.Amateur video broadcast on Iranian media shows a burning bus, with flames rising into the night sky.Iran has one of the highest road death rates in the world, with health ministry officials reporting around 16,300 killed in the Iranian year that ended in March and a further 336,000 injured.Among the main causes are reckless driving, the poor quality of the road network, particularly in rural areas, and the large number of domestically manufactured vehicles equipped with outdated technology.Pompeo Hails Success of Sanctions While Iran Says It 'Dooms' The RegionU.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a September 16 tweet, \\\"many countries are taking actions to leave Iran\\\" as \\\"a different set of rules\\\" would apply to \\\"anyone who wants to engage in economic activity with the regime in Iran\u201d.Secretary Pompeo was referring to the arrangements that would be enforced after the second round of sanctions on Iran take effect starting from November 4 and will target Iran's oil export and banking system.The sanctions are part of U.S. measures against Iran following Washington's withdrawal from the nuclear deal with Iran on May 8.PMOI\\\/MEK resistance units make further calls for regime changeAs the regime in Iran faces increasing crises inside the country and on the international spectrum, members of Resistance Units associated to the Iranian Opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\\\/MEK) are embracing the occasion of a religious month in the Moslem calendar to expand their activities across the country and furthering their call for regime change.These measures are very dangerous and if arrested these individuals will certainly face the threat of being executed as the Iranian regime considers any support for the PMOI\\\/MEK as punishable by death.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-september-18-2018\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-september-18-2018\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-september-18-2018\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Iran news in brief, September 18, 2018\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/\",\"name\":\"NCRI\",\"description\":\"Official website of the National Council of Resistance of Iran\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Official website of the National Council of Resistance of Iran\",\"alternateName\":\"Official website of the National Council of Resistance of Iran\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/01\\\/ncri-logo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/01\\\/ncri-logo.jpg\",\"width\":402,\"height\":100,\"caption\":\"Official website of the National Council of Resistance of Iran\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/iran_policy\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/author\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Iran news in brief, September 18, 2018 - NCRI","description":"Iran news in brief, September 18, 201821 killed in a bus crash in central Iran At least 21 people have died in a road accident when a bus overturned following a collision with a tanker in central Iran.The collision, which occurred around 11:15 pm local time on Monday, triggered a fireball that engulfed both the truck and the bus on the motorway between Kashan and Natanz, more than 200 kilometers south of the capital Tehran.Amateur video broadcast on Iranian media shows a burning bus, with flames rising into the night sky.Iran has one of the highest road death rates in the world, with health ministry officials reporting around 16,300 killed in the Iranian year that ended in March and a further 336,000 injured.Among the main causes are reckless driving, the poor quality of the road network, particularly in rural areas, and the large number of domestically manufactured vehicles equipped with outdated technology.Pompeo Hails Success of Sanctions While Iran Says It 'Dooms' The RegionU.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a September 16 tweet, \"many countries are taking actions to leave Iran\" as \"a different set of rules\" would apply to \"anyone who wants to engage in economic activity with the regime in Iran\u201d.Secretary Pompeo was referring to the arrangements that would be enforced after the second round of sanctions on Iran take effect starting from November 4 and will target Iran's oil export and banking system.The sanctions are part of U.S. measures against Iran following Washington's withdrawal from the nuclear deal with Iran on May 8.PMOI\/MEK resistance units make further calls for regime changeAs the regime in Iran faces increasing crises inside the country and on the international spectrum, members of Resistance Units associated to the Iranian Opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) are embracing the occasion of a religious month in the Moslem calendar to expand their activities across the country and furthering their call for regime change.These measures are very dangerous and if arrested these individuals will certainly face the threat of being executed as the Iranian regime considers any support for the PMOI\/MEK as punishable by death.","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-september-18-2018\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Iran news in brief, September 18, 2018 - NCRI","og_description":"Iran news in brief, September 18, 201821 killed in a bus crash in central Iran At least 21 people have died in a road accident when a bus overturned following a collision with a tanker in central Iran.The collision, which occurred around 11:15 pm local time on Monday, triggered a fireball that engulfed both the truck and the bus on the motorway between Kashan and Natanz, more than 200 kilometers south of the capital Tehran.Amateur video broadcast on Iranian media shows a burning bus, with flames rising into the night sky.Iran has one of the highest road death rates in the world, with health ministry officials reporting around 16,300 killed in the Iranian year that ended in March and a further 336,000 injured.Among the main causes are reckless driving, the poor quality of the road network, particularly in rural areas, and the large number of domestically manufactured vehicles equipped with outdated technology.Pompeo Hails Success of Sanctions While Iran Says It 'Dooms' The RegionU.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a September 16 tweet, \"many countries are taking actions to leave Iran\" as \"a different set of rules\" would apply to \"anyone who wants to engage in economic activity with the regime in Iran\u201d.Secretary Pompeo was referring to the arrangements that would be enforced after the second round of sanctions on Iran take effect starting from November 4 and will target Iran's oil export and banking system.The sanctions are part of U.S. measures against Iran following Washington's withdrawal from the nuclear deal with Iran on May 8.PMOI\/MEK resistance units make further calls for regime changeAs the regime in Iran faces increasing crises inside the country and on the international spectrum, members of Resistance Units associated to the Iranian Opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) are embracing the occasion of a religious month in the Moslem calendar to expand their activities across the country and furthering their call for regime change.These measures are very dangerous and if arrested these individuals will certainly face the threat of being executed as the Iranian regime considers any support for the PMOI\/MEK as punishable by death.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-september-18-2018\/","og_site_name":"NCRI","article_published_time":"2018-09-18T09:24:13+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-01-24T17:49:34+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-18-2018\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-september-18-2018\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Iran news in brief, September 18, 2018","datePublished":"2018-09-18T09:24:13+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T17:49:34+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-september-18-2018\/"},"wordCount":13,"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-18-2018\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-september-18-2018\/","name":"Iran news in brief, September 18, 2018 - NCRI","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2018-09-18T09:24:13+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T17:49:34+00:00","description":"Iran news in brief, September 18, 201821 killed in a bus crash in central Iran At least 21 people have died in a road accident when a bus overturned following a collision with a tanker in central Iran.The collision, which occurred around 11:15 pm local time on Monday, triggered a fireball that engulfed both the truck and the bus on the motorway between Kashan and Natanz, more than 200 kilometers south of the capital Tehran.Amateur video broadcast on Iranian media shows a burning bus, with flames rising into the night sky.Iran has one of the highest road death rates in the world, with health ministry officials reporting around 16,300 killed in the Iranian year that ended in March and a further 336,000 injured.Among the main causes are reckless driving, the poor quality of the road network, particularly in rural areas, and the large number of domestically manufactured vehicles equipped with outdated technology.Pompeo Hails Success of Sanctions While Iran Says It 'Dooms' The RegionU.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a September 16 tweet, \"many countries are taking actions to leave Iran\" as \"a different set of rules\" would apply to \"anyone who wants to engage in economic activity with the regime in Iran\u201d.Secretary Pompeo was referring to the arrangements that would be enforced after the second round of sanctions on Iran take effect starting from November 4 and will target Iran's oil export and banking system.The sanctions are part of U.S. measures against Iran following Washington's withdrawal from the nuclear deal with Iran on May 8.PMOI\/MEK resistance units make further calls for regime changeAs the regime in Iran faces increasing crises inside the country and on the international spectrum, members of Resistance Units associated to the Iranian Opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) are embracing the occasion of a religious month in the Moslem calendar to expand their activities across the country and furthering their call for regime change.These measures are very dangerous and if arrested these individuals will certainly face the threat of being executed as the Iranian regime considers any support for the PMOI\/MEK as punishable by death.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-september-18-2018\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-september-18-2018\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-september-18-2018\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Iran news in brief, September 18, 2018"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/","name":"NCRI","description":"Official website of the National Council of Resistance of Iran","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#organization","name":"Official website of the National Council of Resistance of Iran","alternateName":"Official website of the National Council of Resistance of Iran","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ncri-logo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ncri-logo.jpg","width":402,"height":100,"caption":"Official website of the National Council of Resistance of Iran"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/iran_policy"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/author\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}