{"id":211065,"date":"2018-12-01T10:30:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T10:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/211065-iran-news-in-brief-november-29-2018"},"modified":"2020-01-24T17:48:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:48:37","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-november-29-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-november-29-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran news in brief, November 29, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, November 29, 2018\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_ycdn5aFwvQI\" 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%2Fycdn5aFwvQI%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ycdn5aFwvQI\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT3M18S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2018-11-29T18:07:43Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_ycdn5aFwvQI\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Fycdn5aFwvQI%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, November 29, 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\/ycdn5aFwvQI\" 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%2Fycdn5aFwvQI%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, November 29, 2018\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, November 29, 2018 Iran: Ahvaz National Steel Group Employees Continuing Strike for 19th Day Employees of the National Steel Group in Ahvaz, capital of Khuzestan Province of southwest Iran, continued their strike and protests on Wednesday, marking the 19th consecutive day. This gathering was held outside the Khuzestan Province governor\u2019s office. These workers are seeking their delayed paychecks and are protesting corrupt policies practiced by regime-linked company owners. The workers were holding up signs with the slogans: \u201cWorkers are aware and they abhor exploitation\u201d. 24th Day of Strikes and Protests by the Workers of Haft Tapeh Sugar Mill On Wednesday, the workers of Haft Tapeh, Iran\u2019s largest sugar factory, gathered in front of the mayor\u2019s office in Shush to protest against unpaid wages, the arrest of their colleagues and the corrupt practices of the company\u2019s private owners. The protesters were chanting, \u201cDeath to oppressors, hail the workers.\u201d Iranian Juvenile Offender May Be at Risk of Imminent Execution Juvenile offender Milad Azimi, may be at risk of execution for a crime he allegedly committed when he was 16, according to the state-run daily newspaper Hamdeli. Milad Azimi was held in a police station in the western province of Kermanshah for 15 days following his arrest in December 2011. During this time, he is believed to have been tortured and otherwise ill-treated: this included being flogged to make him \u201cconfess\u201d that he had stabbed the victim. He retracted his \u201cconfessions\u201d before the prosecutor and during his trial, saying it had been extracted through torture. No investigation into his allegations of torture are known to have been carried out. Azimi\u2019s family were granted a chance until December 4, to obtain the required diyeh, amounting to 550 million tomans. They sold their house, gold and other precious items to help pay for the blood money but they could provide only 150 million tomans. U.S. Pressures Iran With Sanctions, Indictments The United States on Wednesday indicted two Iranians for launching a major ransomware cyber-attack known as &quot;SamSam&quot; and sanctioned two others for helping exchange the ransom payments from Bitcoin digital currency into rials. The 34-month long hacking scheme wreaked havoc on hospitals, schools, companies and government agencies, including the cities of Atlanta, Georgia, and Newark, New Jersey, causing over &#36;30 million in losses to victims and allowing the alleged hackers to collect over &#36;6 million in ransom payments. The Treasury Department, meanwhile, said it had sanctioned Ali Khorashadizadeh and Mohammad Ghorbaniyan for exchanging digital ransomware payments into rials. 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This gathering was held outside the Khuzestan Province governor\u2019s office. These workers are seeking their delayed paychecks and are protesting corrupt policies practiced by regime-linked company owners.The workers were holding up signs with the slogans: \u201cWorkers are aware and they abhor exploitation\u201d.24th Day of Strikes and Protests by the Workers of Haft Tapeh Sugar MillOn Wednesday, the workers of Haft Tapeh, Iran\u2019s largest sugar factory, gathered in front of the mayor\u2019s office in Shush to protest against unpaid wages, the arrest of their colleagues and the corrupt practices of the company\u2019s private owners.The protesters were chanting, \u201cDeath to oppressors, hail the workers.\u201dIranian Juvenile Offender May Be at Risk of Imminent ExecutionJuvenile offender Milad Azimi, may be at risk of execution for a crime he allegedly committed when he was 16, according to the state-run daily newspaper Hamdeli.Milad Azimi was held in a police station in the western province of Kermanshah for 15 days following his arrest in December 2011. During this time, he is believed to have been tortured and otherwise ill-treated: this included being flogged to make him \u201cconfess\u201d that he had stabbed the victim. He retracted his \u201cconfessions\u201d before the prosecutor and during his trial, saying it had been extracted through torture. No investigation into his allegations of torture are known to have been carried out.Azimi\u2019s family were granted a chance until December 4, to obtain the required diyeh, amounting to 550 million tomans. They sold their house, gold and other precious items to help pay for the blood money but they could provide only 150 million tomans.U.S. Pressures Iran With Sanctions, IndictmentsThe United States on Wednesday indicted two Iranians for launching a major ransomware cyber-attack known as &quot;SamSam&quot; and sanctioned two others for helping exchange the ransom payments from Bitcoin digital currency into rials.The 34-month long hacking scheme wreaked havoc on hospitals, schools, companies and government agencies, including the cities of Atlanta, Georgia, and Newark, New Jersey, causing over $30 million in losses to victims and allowing the alleged hackers to collect over $6 million in ransom payments.The Treasury Department, meanwhile, said it had sanctioned Ali Khorashadizadeh and Mohammad Ghorbaniyan for exchanging digital ransomware payments into rials.According to the Treasury, the SamSam ransomware scheme targeted more than 200 victims.\" \/>\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-november-29-2018\/\" \/>\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, November 29, 2018 - NCRI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, November 29, 2018Iran: Ahvaz National Steel Group Employees Continuing Strike for 19th Day Employees of the National Steel Group in Ahvaz, capital of Khuzestan Province of southwest Iran, continued their strike and protests on Wednesday, marking the 19th consecutive day. 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These workers are seeking their delayed paychecks and are protesting corrupt policies practiced by regime-linked company owners.The workers were holding up signs with the slogans: \u201cWorkers are aware and they abhor exploitation\u201d.24th Day of Strikes and Protests by the Workers of Haft Tapeh Sugar MillOn Wednesday, the workers of Haft Tapeh, Iran\u2019s largest sugar factory, gathered in front of the mayor\u2019s office in Shush to protest against unpaid wages, the arrest of their colleagues and the corrupt practices of the company\u2019s private owners.The protesters were chanting, \u201cDeath to oppressors, hail the workers.\u201dIranian Juvenile Offender May Be at Risk of Imminent ExecutionJuvenile offender Milad Azimi, may be at risk of execution for a crime he allegedly committed when he was 16, according to the state-run daily newspaper Hamdeli.Milad Azimi was held in a police station in the western province of Kermanshah for 15 days following his arrest in December 2011. 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They sold their house, gold and other precious items to help pay for the blood money but they could provide only 150 million tomans.U.S. Pressures Iran With Sanctions, IndictmentsThe United States on Wednesday indicted two Iranians for launching a major ransomware cyber-attack known as &quot;SamSam&quot; and sanctioned two others for helping exchange the ransom payments from Bitcoin digital currency into rials.The 34-month long hacking scheme wreaked havoc on hospitals, schools, companies and government agencies, including the cities of Atlanta, Georgia, and Newark, New Jersey, causing over $30 million in losses to victims and allowing the alleged hackers to collect over $6 million in ransom payments.The Treasury Department, meanwhile, said it had sanctioned Ali Khorashadizadeh and Mohammad Ghorbaniyan for exchanging digital ransomware payments into rials.According to the Treasury, the SamSam ransomware scheme targeted more than 200 victims.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-november-29-2018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"NCRI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-12-01T10:30:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-01-24T17:48:37+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-november-29-2018\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-november-29-2018\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Iran news in brief, November 29, 2018\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-12-01T10:30:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-24T17:48:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-november-29-2018\\\/\"},\"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-november-29-2018\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-november-29-2018\\\/\",\"name\":\"Iran news in brief, November 29, 2018 - NCRI\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2018-12-01T10:30:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-24T17:48:37+00:00\",\"description\":\"Iran news in brief, November 29, 2018Iran: Ahvaz National Steel Group Employees Continuing Strike for 19th Day Employees of the National Steel Group in Ahvaz, capital of Khuzestan Province of southwest Iran, continued their strike and protests on Wednesday, marking the 19th consecutive day. 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This gathering was held outside the Khuzestan Province governor\u2019s office. These workers are seeking their delayed paychecks and are protesting corrupt policies practiced by regime-linked company owners.The workers were holding up signs with the slogans: \u201cWorkers are aware and they abhor exploitation\u201d.24th Day of Strikes and Protests by the Workers of Haft Tapeh Sugar MillOn Wednesday, the workers of Haft Tapeh, Iran\u2019s largest sugar factory, gathered in front of the mayor\u2019s office in Shush to protest against unpaid wages, the arrest of their colleagues and the corrupt practices of the company\u2019s private owners.The protesters were chanting, \u201cDeath to oppressors, hail the workers.\u201dIranian Juvenile Offender May Be at Risk of Imminent ExecutionJuvenile offender Milad Azimi, may be at risk of execution for a crime he allegedly committed when he was 16, according to the state-run daily newspaper Hamdeli.Milad Azimi was held in a police station in the western province of Kermanshah for 15 days following his arrest in December 2011. During this time, he is believed to have been tortured and otherwise ill-treated: this included being flogged to make him \u201cconfess\u201d that he had stabbed the victim. He retracted his \u201cconfessions\u201d before the prosecutor and during his trial, saying it had been extracted through torture. No investigation into his allegations of torture are known to have been carried out.Azimi\u2019s family were granted a chance until December 4, to obtain the required diyeh, amounting to 550 million tomans. They sold their house, gold and other precious items to help pay for the blood money but they could provide only 150 million tomans.U.S. Pressures Iran With Sanctions, IndictmentsThe United States on Wednesday indicted two Iranians for launching a major ransomware cyber-attack known as \"SamSam\" and sanctioned two others for helping exchange the ransom payments from Bitcoin digital currency into rials.The 34-month long hacking scheme wreaked havoc on hospitals, schools, companies and government agencies, including the cities of Atlanta, Georgia, and Newark, New Jersey, causing over $30 million in losses to victims and allowing the alleged hackers to collect over $6 million in ransom payments.The Treasury Department, meanwhile, said it had sanctioned Ali Khorashadizadeh and Mohammad Ghorbaniyan for exchanging digital ransomware payments into rials.According to the Treasury, the SamSam ransomware scheme targeted more than 200 victims.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-november-29-2018\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-november-29-2018\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-november-29-2018\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Iran news in brief, November 29, 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\/211065","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=211065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}