{"id":210979,"date":"2018-11-01T20:02:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T20:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/210979-iran-news-in-brief-october-12-2018"},"modified":"2020-01-24T17:49:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:49:15","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-october-12-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-october-12-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran news in brief, October 12, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, October 12, 2018\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_PFU3oVXbNGw\" 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%2FPFU3oVXbNGw%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PFU3oVXbNGw\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT3M44S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2018-10-12T19:46:02Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_PFU3oVXbNGw\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FPFU3oVXbNGw%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, October 12, 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\/PFU3oVXbNGw\" 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%2FPFU3oVXbNGw%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, October 12, 2018\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, October 12, 2018 Iran Plot in Paris &#039;Lays Bare&#039; Terrorist Intentions, Pompeo Says A plot by Iranian officials to bomb a dissident rally in the heart of Paris \u201clays bare Iran\u2019s continued support of terrorism throughout Europe,\u201d and justifies the Trump administration\u2019s broad reimposition of sanctions on the state, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday. The secretary praised Germany&#039;s decision a day prior to extradite Asadollah Assadi, an Iranian diplomat accredited in Austria, to Belgium, where officials first hatched a plan to trigger explosives at a June 30 rally of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). \u201cThe scale of this plot, which involved arrests of numerous suspects across Europe \u2013 including in Belgium, France and Germany \u2013 reminds us that Iran remains the world\u2019s leading state sponsor of terrorism,\u201d Pompeo said. \u201cWe support our European allies in exposing and countering the threat that Iranian-backed terrorism poses around the world.\u201d Saudi Arabia to Make Up for Loss of Iranian Oil to India Saudi Arabia, the world&#039;s biggest oil exporter, will supply Indian oil buyers with an additional 4 million barrels of crude oil in November, several sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The extra supply indicates a willingness by Saudi Arabia to increase crude supply to make up the shortfall once sanctions by the United States on oil exports from Iran, the third-largest producer in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), start up on Nov. 4. India is Iran&#039;s top oil client after China, though several refiners have indicated they will stop taking Iranian barrels because of the sanctions. Strikes by Iran\u2019s merchants enters its third day On Wednesday morning, shops in Tehran\u2019s Shahrak-e San\u2019ati were closed in protest to increasing prices, inflation, poverty and other economic grievances. This is the third day of a strike that began on Monday and spread to more than 50 cities and 21 provinces across Iran. The movement has also reached the south-eastern reaches of the country, in the city of Mirjaveh, where merchants kept their shops closed in solidarity with the ongoing strike. In Najaf Abad, Isfahan province, shops were closed in the Sheikh Baha\u2019i shopping center. The bazaar of Takestan, Qazvin province, also joined the strikes and shut down on Wednesday. Mina Rad disappeared after reporting in to the Intelligence Department Mina Rad has disappeared after she reported in to the Department of Intelligence which had summoned her. No one has any information about her whereabouts. Mina Rad is a young poet from Doroud, in Lorestan Province, western Iran. She had been previously summoned three times and interrogated by the Intelligence Department. She was constantly called by intelligence agents and threatened on the phone. Mina Rad was among those arrested during the uprisings in Doroud, one of the hotbeds of protests in January 2018. 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This is the third day of a strike that began on Monday and spread to more than 50 cities and 21 provinces across Iran.The movement has also reached the south-eastern reaches of the country, in the city of Mirjaveh, where merchants kept their shops closed in solidarity with the ongoing strike. In Najaf Abad, Isfahan province, shops were closed in the Sheikh Baha\u2019i shopping center. The bazaar of Takestan, Qazvin province, also joined the strikes and shut down on Wednesday.Mina Rad disappeared after reporting in to the Intelligence DepartmentMina Rad has disappeared after she reported in to the Department of Intelligence which had summoned her. No one has any information about her whereabouts.Mina Rad is a young poet from Doroud, in Lorestan Province, western Iran. She had been previously summoned three times and interrogated by the Intelligence Department. She was constantly called by intelligence agents and threatened on the phone.Mina Rad was among those arrested during the uprisings in Doroud, one of the hotbeds of protests in January 2018. She was interrogated and subsequently released.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-october-12-2018\/","og_site_name":"NCRI","article_published_time":"2018-11-01T20:02:38+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-01-24T17:49:15+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-october-12-2018\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-october-12-2018\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Iran news in brief, October 12, 2018","datePublished":"2018-11-01T20:02:38+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T17:49:15+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-october-12-2018\/"},"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-october-12-2018\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-october-12-2018\/","name":"Iran news in brief, October 12, 2018 - NCRI","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2018-11-01T20:02:38+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T17:49:15+00:00","description":"Iran news in brief, October 12, 2018Iran Plot in Paris 'Lays Bare' Terrorist Intentions, Pompeo Says A plot by Iranian officials to bomb a dissident rally in the heart of Paris \u201clays bare Iran\u2019s continued support of terrorism throughout Europe,\u201d and justifies the Trump administration\u2019s broad reimposition of sanctions on the state, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday.The secretary praised Germany's decision a day prior to extradite Asadollah Assadi, an Iranian diplomat accredited in Austria, to Belgium, where officials first hatched a plan to trigger explosives at a June 30 rally of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).\u201cThe scale of this plot, which involved arrests of numerous suspects across Europe \u2013 including in Belgium, France and Germany \u2013 reminds us that Iran remains the world\u2019s leading state sponsor of terrorism,\u201d Pompeo said. \u201cWe support our European allies in exposing and countering the threat that Iranian-backed terrorism poses around the world.\u201dSaudi Arabia to Make Up for Loss of Iranian Oil to IndiaSaudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, will supply Indian oil buyers with an additional 4 million barrels of crude oil in November, several sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.The extra supply indicates a willingness by Saudi Arabia to increase crude supply to make up the shortfall once sanctions by the United States on oil exports from Iran, the third-largest producer in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), start up on Nov. 4.India is Iran's top oil client after China, though several refiners have indicated they will stop taking Iranian barrels because of the sanctions.Strikes by Iran\u2019s merchants enters its third dayOn Wednesday morning, shops in Tehran\u2019s Shahrak-e San\u2019ati were closed in protest to increasing prices, inflation, poverty and other economic grievances. 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She was constantly called by intelligence agents and threatened on the phone.Mina Rad was among those arrested during the uprisings in Doroud, one of the hotbeds of protests in January 2018. 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