{"id":211109,"date":"2019-01-05T09:57:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T09:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/211109-iran-news-in-brief-december-31-2018"},"modified":"2020-01-24T17:47:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:47:45","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-december-31-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-december-31-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran news in brief, December 31, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, December 31, 2018\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_A56m0TqR-eM\" 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%2FA56m0TqR-eM%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A56m0TqR-eM\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT4M24S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2018-12-31T17:34:44Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_A56m0TqR-eM\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FA56m0TqR-eM%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, December 31, 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\/A56m0TqR-eM\" 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%2FA56m0TqR-eM%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, December 31, 2018\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, December 31, 2018 1- Grandson of Iran Regime&#039;s Founder Says Regime&#039;s Survival Is Not Guaranteed The grandson of the founder of Iran Regime said that there was no guarantee that the Iranian regime would survive. Other Iranian officials made similar remarks in the past few days indicating a growing fear of regime change among the regime\u2019s elite. \u201cWe must find the rules for human behavior and the causes of stability and collapse in order to live according to them. Otherwise there is no guarantee that we (regime) will stay and others will go,\u201d Hassan Khomeini said speaking at a ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of an Iranian cleric in Jamaran in North Tehran. 2- Graham More Upbeat on Syria Troop Withdrawal After Trump Meeting A senior Republican U.S. senator said he emerged from a White House meeting with President Donald Trump on Sunday reassured that Trump is committed to defeating Islamic State even as he plans to withdraw American troops from Syria. \u201cWe talked about Syria. He told me some things I didn\u2019t know that made me feel a lot better about where we\u2019re headed in Syria,\u201d Graham, an influential voice on national security Graham said later on Twitter that Trump would make sure that any withdrawal from Syria \u201cwill be done in a fashion to ensure: 1)ISIS is permanently destroyed 2)Iran doesn\u2019t fill in the back end. And 3)our Kurdish allies are protected.\u201d 3- US Envoy on Iran&#039;s Hypocrisy: &#039;Regime Gets to Be on Twitter, but Not the People&#039; US ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell on Saturday tweeted his anger at the Iranian regime\u2019s use of Twitter, while banning it for the Iranian people. \u201cIranian Regime gets to be on @twitter but not the Iranian people...\u201d Grenell tweeted in response to an account purporting to belong to Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani. 4- Khamenei Quickly Appoints His Trusted Man to Head an Important Council Sadeq Amoli Larijani - the chief of Iran\u2019s hardline judiciary who has been blacklisted by Washington - was named on Sunday as the new head of the powerful Expediency Council, state television reported. The council is intended to resolve disputes between parliament and a watchdog body, the Guardian Council. 5- Iranian Students Continue Protests Over Campus Bus Crash On Sunday, December 30th, students from Tehran&#039;s Azad University of Science and Research protested for the second consecutive day in protest of the loss of their 10 classmates during a bus accident. In the course of this move, the university president fled by his car from the university instead of answering the students. 6- Iran: Farmers in Isfahan Rally, Demand River Water Shares Farmers in the town of Varzaneh in Isfahan Province, central Iran, are continuing their rally on Sunday, saying they are even willing to risk their lives to have their demands fulfilled. These protests have continued for months now. Farmers in this area of Iran, like many other towns and cities across the country, are protesting the policies implemented by Iranian regime authorities. 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Other Iranian officials made similar remarks in the past few days indicating a growing fear of regime change among the regime\u2019s elite.\u201cWe must find the rules for human behavior and the causes of stability and collapse in order to live according to them. Otherwise there is no guarantee that we (regime) will stay and others will go,\u201d Hassan Khomeini said speaking at a ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of an Iranian cleric in Jamaran in North Tehran.2- Graham More Upbeat on Syria Troop Withdrawal After Trump MeetingA senior Republican U.S. senator said he emerged from a White House meeting with President Donald Trump on Sunday reassured that Trump is committed to defeating Islamic State even as he plans to withdraw American troops from Syria.\u201cWe talked about Syria. He told me some things I didn\u2019t know that made me feel a lot better about where we\u2019re headed in Syria,\u201d Graham, an influential voice on national securityGraham said later on Twitter that Trump would make sure that any withdrawal from Syria \u201cwill be done in a fashion to ensure: 1)ISIS is permanently destroyed 2)Iran doesn\u2019t fill in the back end. And 3)our Kurdish allies are protected.\u201d3- US Envoy on Iran's Hypocrisy: 'Regime Gets to Be on Twitter, but Not the People'US ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell on Saturday tweeted his anger at the Iranian regime\u2019s use of Twitter, while banning it for the Iranian people.\u201cIranian Regime gets to be on @twitter but not the Iranian people...\u201d Grenell tweeted in response to an account purporting to belong to Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani.4- Khamenei Quickly Appoints His Trusted Man to Head an Important CouncilSadeq Amoli Larijani - the chief of Iran\u2019s hardline judiciary who has been blacklisted by Washington - was named on Sunday as the new head of the powerful Expediency Council, state television reported.The council is intended to resolve disputes between parliament and a watchdog body, the Guardian Council.5- Iranian Students Continue Protests Over Campus Bus CrashOn Sunday, December 30th, students from Tehran's Azad University of Science and Research protested for the second consecutive day in protest of the loss of their 10 classmates during a bus accident.In the course of this move, the university president fled by his car from the university instead of answering the students. 6- Iran: Farmers in Isfahan Rally, Demand River Water SharesFarmers in the town of Varzaneh in Isfahan Province, central Iran, are continuing their rally on Sunday, saying they are even willing to risk their lives to have their demands fulfilled. These protests have continued for months now.Farmers in this area of Iran, like many other towns and cities across the country, are protesting the policies implemented by Iranian regime authorities. Rivers throughout Iran are rerouted and river flows obstructed to provide for projects mainly pursued by the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and other initiatives that profit only those linked to Iranian regime authorities, or considered insiders.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-december-31-2018\/","og_site_name":"NCRI","article_published_time":"2019-01-05T09:57:03+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-01-24T17:47:45+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-december-31-2018\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-december-31-2018\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Iran news in brief, December 31, 2018","datePublished":"2019-01-05T09:57:03+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T17:47:45+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-december-31-2018\/"},"wordCount":16,"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-december-31-2018\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-december-31-2018\/","name":"Iran news in brief, December 31, 2018 - NCRI","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2019-01-05T09:57:03+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T17:47:45+00:00","description":"Iran news in brief, December 31, 20181- Grandson of Iran Regime's Founder Says Regime's Survival Is Not Guaranteed The grandson of the founder of Iran Regime said that there was no guarantee that the Iranian regime would survive. Other Iranian officials made similar remarks in the past few days indicating a growing fear of regime change among the regime\u2019s elite.\u201cWe must find the rules for human behavior and the causes of stability and collapse in order to live according to them. Otherwise there is no guarantee that we (regime) will stay and others will go,\u201d Hassan Khomeini said speaking at a ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of an Iranian cleric in Jamaran in North Tehran.2- Graham More Upbeat on Syria Troop Withdrawal After Trump MeetingA senior Republican U.S. senator said he emerged from a White House meeting with President Donald Trump on Sunday reassured that Trump is committed to defeating Islamic State even as he plans to withdraw American troops from Syria.\u201cWe talked about Syria. He told me some things I didn\u2019t know that made me feel a lot better about where we\u2019re headed in Syria,\u201d Graham, an influential voice on national securityGraham said later on Twitter that Trump would make sure that any withdrawal from Syria \u201cwill be done in a fashion to ensure: 1)ISIS is permanently destroyed 2)Iran doesn\u2019t fill in the back end. And 3)our Kurdish allies are protected.\u201d3- US Envoy on Iran's Hypocrisy: 'Regime Gets to Be on Twitter, but Not the People'US ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell on Saturday tweeted his anger at the Iranian regime\u2019s use of Twitter, while banning it for the Iranian people.\u201cIranian Regime gets to be on @twitter but not the Iranian people...\u201d Grenell tweeted in response to an account purporting to belong to Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani.4- Khamenei Quickly Appoints His Trusted Man to Head an Important CouncilSadeq Amoli Larijani - the chief of Iran\u2019s hardline judiciary who has been blacklisted by Washington - was named on Sunday as the new head of the powerful Expediency Council, state television reported.The council is intended to resolve disputes between parliament and a watchdog body, the Guardian Council.5- Iranian Students Continue Protests Over Campus Bus CrashOn Sunday, December 30th, students from Tehran's Azad University of Science and Research protested for the second consecutive day in protest of the loss of their 10 classmates during a bus accident.In the course of this move, the university president fled by his car from the university instead of answering the students. 6- Iran: Farmers in Isfahan Rally, Demand River Water SharesFarmers in the town of Varzaneh in Isfahan Province, central Iran, are continuing their rally on Sunday, saying they are even willing to risk their lives to have their demands fulfilled. 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