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This is the biggest rise for the dollar in Iran&#039;s government-controlled forex market during the past three months.The rate of exchange for the U.S. dollar was 11,000 rials on December 31. 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The Dutch company was fined 500,000 euros and a Bahrein-based subsidiary 350,000.The Limburg Court says the shell constructions were set up &quot;so that gas turbine parts could still be sold to clients in Iran.&quot; The court statement did not identify the clients.Jubeir: Iran chief sponsor of terrorism Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel Al-Jubeir reiterated on Monday that Iran has been the chief sponsor of terrorism for decades.Jubeir said Iran has been sponsoring terrorism since the 1979 Iranian revolution.Iran has established terrorist groups such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Houthis in Yemen, he said, adding that Iran had been implicated in terrorist attacks that took place in other countries, including Saudi Arabia and the United States.He said Iran has been providing arms to terrorist groups and interfering in other countries\u2019 affairs as well as harboring terrorists of Al Qaeda, including Osama Bin Laden\u2019s son.Iran Regime FM Zarif responds to question on rights abuses: \u2018I am a human rights professor,\u2019!Responding to a question regarding Iran\u2019s human rights abuses, Mohammad Javad Zarif, Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran Regime, said &quot;I am a human rights professor, I have taught human rights for over 30 years,\u201d at the 2019 Munich Security Conference.\u201cI believe human rights for us is a security requirement \u2013 not a moral nicety,\u201d Zarif added.Earlier this month, it was reported that the Iranian government arrested, imprisoned or executed at least 860 journalists in the three decades between the Islamic revolution in 1979 and 2009, according to documents leaked to media monitoring group Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF).\" \/>\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-february-19-2019\/\" \/>\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, February 19, 2019 - NCRI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, February 19, 2019U.S. Dollar, Prices Rise As Iran Faces Uncertainty The U.S. dollar is again on a steep rise in Iran. 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The greenback climbed to over 130,000 rials on Monday morning February 18. This is the biggest rise for the dollar in Iran's government-controlled forex market during the past three months.The rate of exchange for the U.S. dollar was 11,000 rials on December 31. The new rate is still well below the rate of 190,000 rials per dollar in the summer of 2018.As the dollar rose so did gold, as the two move in tandem; both being sought-after safe-havens.Market observers attribute the high price of foreign currencies and gold to uncertainty about the fate of the bills against money laundering and combating terrorism financing, which are required by the Financial Action Task Force to exclude Iran from its blacklist.Dutch company fined for exporting turbine parts to IranA Dutch company has been convicted of illegally exporting to Iran gas turbine parts that could be used in the manufacture of weapons.A court in the southern province of Limburg convicted Euroturbine BV on Monday of setting up shell construction companies aimed at avoiding Dutch export license requirements that were tightened in 2009. The Dutch company was fined 500,000 euros and a Bahrein-based subsidiary 350,000.The Limburg Court says the shell constructions were set up \"so that gas turbine parts could still be sold to clients in Iran.\" The court statement did not identify the clients.Jubeir: Iran chief sponsor of terrorism Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel Al-Jubeir reiterated on Monday that Iran has been the chief sponsor of terrorism for decades.Jubeir said Iran has been sponsoring terrorism since the 1979 Iranian revolution.Iran has established terrorist groups such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Houthis in Yemen, he said, adding that Iran had been implicated in terrorist attacks that took place in other countries, including Saudi Arabia and the United States.He said Iran has been providing arms to terrorist groups and interfering in other countries\u2019 affairs as well as harboring terrorists of Al Qaeda, including Osama Bin Laden\u2019s son.Iran Regime FM Zarif responds to question on rights abuses: \u2018I am a human rights professor,\u2019!Responding to a question regarding Iran\u2019s human rights abuses, Mohammad Javad Zarif, Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran Regime, said \"I am a human rights professor, I have taught human rights for over 30 years,\u201d at the 2019 Munich Security Conference.\u201cI believe human rights for us is a security requirement \u2013 not a moral nicety,\u201d Zarif added.Earlier this month, it was reported that the Iranian government arrested, imprisoned or executed at least 860 journalists in the three decades between the Islamic revolution in 1979 and 2009, according to documents leaked to media monitoring group Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF).","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-february-19-2019\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-february-19-2019\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-february-19-2019\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Iran news in brief, February 19, 2019"}]},{"@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\/211167","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=211167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}