{"id":210988,"date":"2018-11-01T20:06:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T20:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/210988-iran-news-in-brief-october-19-2018"},"modified":"2020-01-24T17:49:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:49:14","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-october-19-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-october-19-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran news in brief, October 19, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, October 19, 2018\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_JyLPIvwbYbg\" 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%2FJyLPIvwbYbg%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JyLPIvwbYbg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT3M55S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2018-10-19T10:13:12Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_JyLPIvwbYbg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FJyLPIvwbYbg%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, October 19, 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\/JyLPIvwbYbg\" 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%2FJyLPIvwbYbg%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, October 19, 2018\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, October 19, 2018 Six PMOI\/MEK Supporters Sentenced 8 to18 Years Imprisonment and Exile The head of the regime&#039;s justice in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad province, the criminal mullah Mazarei, announced that six defendants affiliated to the Peoples\u2019 Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) were &quot;sentenced to imprisonment and exile from 8 to 18 years\u201d on the charge of writing slogans, blasphemy (against supreme leader) and burning &quot;propaganda banners with the images of national and religious figures&quot;. According to him, &quot;the enemies of the state ... used to take photos and videos of the sabotage acts and send them to their leaders after committing the crime.&quot; Mazarei said in a ridiculous and hollow gesture: &quot;The judiciary and the general bureau of intelligence of the province managed to have access to the photos and videos sent by this opponent group, and arrested them in a surprise operation through monitoring, spreading intelligence umbrella, and the application of technical techniques\u201d! Addiction age has plunged under 15 for Iranian women and girls Addiction has been spreading at an alarming rate among Iranian women and girls, compelling the regime\u2019s officials and experts to acknowledge it. Akram Mosavvari Manesh has asserted that the average addiction age has dropped to under 15 years of age among Iranian women and girls. Executive director of women\u2019s studies and research made the remarks on October 16, 2018, on the addiction of Iranian women and girls. She said, \u201cAddiction age has dropped to the 15-18 range and even under 15.\u201d Mosavvari Manesh added, \u201cThe worst social harm in Iran is addiction which also includes women and girls. The disaster has even entered schools.\u201d Prisoner Executed in Eastern Iran Ayoub Jahandar, 28, was executed at Ferdows Prison in the early morning hours of October 14, 2018. Ferdows Prison is in the city of Ferdows in South Khorasan Province. Fewer than 300 people are held in this small prison. Reports of executions here have been rare in recent years. According to Amnesty International\u2019s annual report, Iran ranks first in the world in executions per capita. Accused of Posing \u201cSecurity Risk,\u201d Iranian Actress Barred from Limelight After being interrogated twice for her social media publications, Iranian actress Parastoo Salehi says that Iranian security forces are barring her from making public appearances. Salehi said that she was first interrogated on August 19 of this year, when she was summoned by the Iranian judiciary surveillance unit to explain her public commentary on Iran\u2019s social and economic setbacks. In a video she recently published online, Salehi said she was called again on October 2nd to the Ministry of Intelligence facility on Khajeh Abdollah Ansari street. \u201cThe public wasn\u2019t to have knowledge of this meeting. But now I am being told again and again that I can\u2019t appear in public for \u2018security reasons.&#039;\u201d Salehi reported that she was being censured for using her public Instagram profile to decry issues such as embezzlement, the drop in value of the Iranian currency, political detainees, rape, child abuse, and the Caspian Sea agreement, a highly-contentious diplomatic agreement that was recently finalized.\"><\/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, October 19, 2018Six PMOI\/MEK Supporters Sentenced 8 to18 Years Imprisonment and Exile The head of the regime&#8217;s justice in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad province, the criminal [&#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-210988","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 v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Iran news in brief, October 19, 2018 - NCRI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, October 19, 2018Six PMOI\/MEK Supporters Sentenced 8 to18 Years Imprisonment and Exile The head of the regime&#039;s justice in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad province, the criminal mullah Mazarei, announced that six defendants affiliated to the Peoples\u2019 Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) were &quot;sentenced to imprisonment and exile from 8 to 18 years\u201d on the charge of writing slogans, blasphemy (against supreme leader) and burning &quot;propaganda banners with the images of national and religious figures&quot;. According to him, &quot;the enemies of the state... used to take photos and videos of the sabotage acts and send them to their leaders after committing the crime.&quot;Mazarei said in a ridiculous and hollow gesture: &quot;The judiciary and the general bureau of intelligence of the province managed to have access to the photos and videos sent by this opponent group, and arrested them in a surprise operation through monitoring, spreading intelligence umbrella, and the application of technical techniques\u201d!Addiction age has plunged under 15 for Iranian women and girlsAddiction has been spreading at an alarming rate among Iranian women and girls, compelling the regime\u2019s officials and experts to acknowledge it. Akram Mosavvari Manesh has asserted that the average addiction age has dropped to under 15 years of age among Iranian women and girls.Executive director of women\u2019s studies and research made the remarks on October 16, 2018, on the addiction of Iranian women and girls. She said, \u201cAddiction age has dropped to the 15-18 range and even under 15.\u201dMosavvari Manesh added, \u201cThe worst social harm in Iran is addiction which also includes women and girls. The disaster has even entered schools.\u201dPrisoner Executed in Eastern IranAyoub Jahandar, 28, was executed at Ferdows Prison in the early morning hours of October 14, 2018.Ferdows Prison is in the city of Ferdows in South Khorasan Province. Fewer than 300 people are held in this small prison. 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She said, \u201cAddiction age has dropped to the 15-18 range and even under 15.\u201dMosavvari Manesh added, \u201cThe worst social harm in Iran is addiction which also includes women and girls. The disaster has even entered schools.\u201dPrisoner Executed in Eastern IranAyoub Jahandar, 28, was executed at Ferdows Prison in the early morning hours of October 14, 2018.Ferdows Prison is in the city of Ferdows in South Khorasan Province. Fewer than 300 people are held in this small prison. 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She said, \u201cAddiction age has dropped to the 15-18 range and even under 15.\u201dMosavvari Manesh added, \u201cThe worst social harm in Iran is addiction which also includes women and girls. The disaster has even entered schools.\u201dPrisoner Executed in Eastern IranAyoub Jahandar, 28, was executed at Ferdows Prison in the early morning hours of October 14, 2018.Ferdows Prison is in the city of Ferdows in South Khorasan Province. Fewer than 300 people are held in this small prison. Reports of executions here have been rare in recent years.According to Amnesty International\u2019s annual report, Iran ranks first in the world in executions per capita.Accused of Posing \u201cSecurity Risk,\u201d Iranian Actress Barred from Limelight After being interrogated twice for her social media publications, Iranian actress Parastoo Salehi says that Iranian security forces are barring her from making public appearances.Salehi said that she was first interrogated on August 19 of this year, when she was summoned by the Iranian judiciary surveillance unit to explain her public commentary on Iran\u2019s social and economic setbacks.In a video she recently published online, Salehi said she was called again on October 2nd to the Ministry of Intelligence facility on Khajeh Abdollah Ansari street. \u201cThe public wasn\u2019t to have knowledge of this meeting. But now I am being told again and again that I can\u2019t appear in public for \u2018security reasons.'\u201dSalehi reported that she was being censured for using her public Instagram profile to decry issues such as embezzlement, the drop in value of the Iranian currency, political detainees, rape, child abuse, and the Caspian Sea agreement, a highly-contentious diplomatic agreement that was recently finalized.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-october-19-2018\/","og_site_name":"NCRI","article_published_time":"2018-11-01T20:06:15+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-01-24T17:49:14+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-19-2018\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-october-19-2018\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Iran news in brief, October 19, 2018","datePublished":"2018-11-01T20:06:15+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T17:49:14+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-october-19-2018\/"},"wordCount":14,"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-19-2018\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-october-19-2018\/","name":"Iran news in brief, October 19, 2018 - NCRI","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2018-11-01T20:06:15+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T17:49:14+00:00","description":"Iran news in brief, October 19, 2018Six PMOI\/MEK Supporters Sentenced 8 to18 Years Imprisonment and Exile The head of the regime's justice in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad province, the criminal mullah Mazarei, announced that six defendants affiliated to the Peoples\u2019 Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) were \"sentenced to imprisonment and exile from 8 to 18 years\u201d on the charge of writing slogans, blasphemy (against supreme leader) and burning \"propaganda banners with the images of national and religious figures\". According to him, \"the enemies of the state... used to take photos and videos of the sabotage acts and send them to their leaders after committing the crime.\"Mazarei said in a ridiculous and hollow gesture: \"The judiciary and the general bureau of intelligence of the province managed to have access to the photos and videos sent by this opponent group, and arrested them in a surprise operation through monitoring, spreading intelligence umbrella, and the application of technical techniques\u201d!Addiction age has plunged under 15 for Iranian women and girlsAddiction has been spreading at an alarming rate among Iranian women and girls, compelling the regime\u2019s officials and experts to acknowledge it. Akram Mosavvari Manesh has asserted that the average addiction age has dropped to under 15 years of age among Iranian women and girls.Executive director of women\u2019s studies and research made the remarks on October 16, 2018, on the addiction of Iranian women and girls. She said, \u201cAddiction age has dropped to the 15-18 range and even under 15.\u201dMosavvari Manesh added, \u201cThe worst social harm in Iran is addiction which also includes women and girls. The disaster has even entered schools.\u201dPrisoner Executed in Eastern IranAyoub Jahandar, 28, was executed at Ferdows Prison in the early morning hours of October 14, 2018.Ferdows Prison is in the city of Ferdows in South Khorasan Province. Fewer than 300 people are held in this small prison. Reports of executions here have been rare in recent years.According to Amnesty International\u2019s annual report, Iran ranks first in the world in executions per capita.Accused of Posing \u201cSecurity Risk,\u201d Iranian Actress Barred from Limelight After being interrogated twice for her social media publications, Iranian actress Parastoo Salehi says that Iranian security forces are barring her from making public appearances.Salehi said that she was first interrogated on August 19 of this year, when she was summoned by the Iranian judiciary surveillance unit to explain her public commentary on Iran\u2019s social and economic setbacks.In a video she recently published online, Salehi said she was called again on October 2nd to the Ministry of Intelligence facility on Khajeh Abdollah Ansari street. \u201cThe public wasn\u2019t to have knowledge of this meeting. 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