{"id":211048,"date":"2018-11-24T07:32:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T07:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/211048-iran-news-in-brief-november-21-2018"},"modified":"2020-01-24T17:48:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:48:40","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-november-21-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-november-21-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran news in brief, November 21, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, November 21, 2018\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_1b-EfRafODU\" 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%2F1b-EfRafODU%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1b-EfRafODU\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT3M28S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2018-11-21T15:36:18Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_1b-EfRafODU\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F1b-EfRafODU%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, November 21, 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\/1b-EfRafODU\" 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%2F1b-EfRafODU%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, November 21, 2018\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, November 21, 2018 Hook: US Sanctions on Iran Have Had Almost &#039;Entire&#039; Global Compliance A senior Trump administration official says tough U.S. sanctions re-imposed on Iran earlier this month have been effective, with &quot;almost entire compliance&quot; from the international community. U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook made the comment in a sit-down interview with VOA&#039;s Arabic-language sister network Alhurra in Dubai on Monday. &quot;We have seen almost entire compliance with our sanctions regime,&quot; Hook said. &quot;And we don&#039;t anticipate having to sanction any major companies, because we haven&#039;t seen any evidence that these companies want to choose the Iranian market over the United States market.&quot; U.S. Targets Iranian-Russian Network Over Syrian Oil Shipments The United States said on Tuesday it had moved to disrupt an Iranian-Russian network that sent millions of barrels of oil to Syria and hundreds of millions of dollars to indirectly fund militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah. The complicated arrangement, described by the U.S. Treasury in a statement, involved a Russia-based company run by a Syrian citizen that shipped Iranian oil to Syria with the aid of a Russian state-owned company. Syria then helped transfer hundreds of millions of dollars in cash to Hezbollah, which functions as a political party that is part of the Lebanese government and as a militia, as well as to Hamas, the Palestinian group that rules the Gaza Strip. U.S. officials said Russia facilitated the delivery of oil from Iran to Syria, and that a variety of mechanisms were used in an attempt to conceal the shipments and oil-related payments. Pompeo to Khamenei: Spend Iranian People&#039;s Money on Iranians Not Terrorists On Nov 20, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned on Twitter that there were &quot;grave consequences for anyone shipping oil to Syria, or trying to evade US sanctions on the Islamic Republic&#039;s terrorist activities.&quot; He added that Iran&#039;s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei &quot;should decide if spending the Iranian people&#039;s money on the Iranian people is more important than investing schemes to fund Assad, Hezbollah, and other terrorists.&quot; Sugar Mill Workers Continue Protests Despite Arrests Workers of the Haft Tappeh Sugar Mill continued their strike On Tuesday, for the 16th consecutive day demanding their unpaid wages and protesting the privatization of the company. According to a striking worker who spoke to the semiofficial ILNA News Agency on November 14, at least 2,700 of the Haft Tappeh Sugar Mill workers have not received their salaries for the past four months. 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sanctions regime,\" Hook said. \"And we don't anticipate having to sanction any major companies, because we haven't seen any evidence that these companies want to choose the Iranian market over the United States market.\"U.S. Targets Iranian-Russian Network Over Syrian Oil ShipmentsThe United States said on Tuesday it had moved to disrupt an Iranian-Russian network that sent millions of barrels of oil to Syria and hundreds of millions of dollars to indirectly fund militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah.The complicated arrangement, described by the U.S. Treasury in a statement, involved a Russia-based company run by a Syrian citizen that shipped Iranian oil to Syria with the aid of a Russian state-owned company.Syria then helped transfer hundreds of millions of dollars in cash to Hezbollah, which functions as a political party that is part of the Lebanese government and as a militia, as well as to Hamas, the Palestinian group that rules the Gaza Strip.U.S. officials said Russia facilitated the delivery of oil from Iran to Syria, and that a variety of mechanisms were used in an attempt to conceal the shipments and oil-related payments.Pompeo to Khamenei: Spend Iranian People's Money on Iranians Not TerroristsOn Nov 20, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned on Twitter that there were \"grave consequences for anyone shipping oil to Syria, or trying to evade US sanctions on the Islamic Republic's terrorist activities.\"He added that Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei \"should decide if spending the Iranian people's money on the Iranian people is more important than investing schemes to fund Assad, Hezbollah, and other terrorists.\"Sugar Mill Workers Continue Protests Despite ArrestsWorkers of the Haft Tappeh Sugar Mill continued their strike On Tuesday, for the 16th consecutive day demanding their unpaid wages and protesting the privatization of the company.According to a striking worker who spoke to the semiofficial ILNA News Agency on November 14, at least 2,700 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