{"id":211218,"date":"2019-04-20T10:15:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T10:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/211218-iran-news-in-brief-april-17-2019"},"modified":"2020-01-24T17:44:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:44:17","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-april-17-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-april-17-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran news in brief, April 17, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, April 17, 2019\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_MpYMliBf-Lg\" 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%2FMpYMliBf-Lg%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MpYMliBf-Lg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT3M48S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2019-04-17T18:04:59Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_MpYMliBf-Lg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FMpYMliBf-Lg%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, April 17, 2019<\/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\/MpYMliBf-Lg\" 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%2FMpYMliBf-Lg%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, April 17, 2019\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, April 17, 2019 Structures Built by Army and Police Intensified Deadly Flash Floods A barrier by the army as well as a leisure and entertainment complex recently built by police in the city of Shiraz have been singled out as factors that intensified the recent deadly flash floods in the ancient city, southern Iran. In its report on the deadly flood, the fact-finding committee of the city council of Shiraz says, &quot;During past three decades, nearly 130 hectares of lands in the &quot;Quran Gate&quot; basin have have been affected by man-made structures that have prevented the water to be absorbed into the ground and intensified the floods in Shiraz.&quot; Furthermore, the report maintains that a mound, made by the Army, also helped the flash floods to accumulate, and intensify the flow of water. Teachers Activist Fatemeh Bahmani Receives One-Year Jail Sentence and Fine Teachers activist Fatemeh Bahmani and her husband, Mohammad Kurd, are each sentenced to one-year imprisonment and payment of a fine of 2 million Tomans. Fatemeh is a mother and her child is being kept by relatives since she has been arrested. Teachers activist Fatemeh Bahmani and her husband were arrested by security forces in Arak on November 11, 2018, during Iranian teachers\u2019 nationwide strike. 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Fatemeh is a mother and her child is being kept by relatives since she has been arrested.Teachers activist Fatemeh Bahmani and her husband were arrested by security forces in Arak on November 11, 2018, during Iranian teachers\u2019 nationwide strike. On that day, as the Coordinating Council of Iranian Educators\u2019 Guild Organization announced, 12 teachers were arrested and 30 teachers\u2019 activists were summoned and interrogated.The strike was to protest suppression and imprisonment of teachers, their dire living conditions, high inflation and diminution of their purchasing power.Instagram Suspends Accounts Belonging to Iran&#039;s Khamenei, IRGC LeadersThe Instagram accounts of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps\u2019 (IRGC) Quds Force, were suspended Tuesday \u2013 a day after the IRGC was officially designated by the United States as a terrorist organization.Instagram also suspended the accounts of IRGC commander-in-chief Mohammad Ali Jafari and Brig. Gen. 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Mohammed Pakpour, the commander of the IRGC\u2019s ground forces.Bahrain Jails 169 for Founding 'Iran-Linked Terror Group'A Bahraini court has convicted 139 people on terrorism-related charges in a mass trial involving 169 defendants, and sentenced them to prison terms of between three years and life in prison.The public prosecutor's office said on April 16 that 138 of those convicted were stripped of their citizenship and a further 30 were acquitted.The defendants, of which 109 are in custody and 60 were tried in absentia, can appeal.Charges against the group included forming a terrorist cell inside Bahrain with help from mainly Shi\u2019ite Iran for the purpose of carrying out attacks in the Sunni-ruled kingdom.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-april-17-2019\/","og_site_name":"NCRI","article_published_time":"2019-04-20T10:15:59+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-01-24T17:44:17+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-april-17-2019\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-april-17-2019\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Iran news in brief, April 17, 2019","datePublished":"2019-04-20T10:15:59+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T17:44:17+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-april-17-2019\/"},"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-april-17-2019\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-april-17-2019\/","name":"Iran news in brief, April 17, 2019 - NCRI","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2019-04-20T10:15:59+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T17:44:17+00:00","description":"Iran news in brief, April 17, 2019Structures Built by Army and Police Intensified Deadly Flash Floods A barrier by the army as well as a leisure and entertainment complex recently built by police in the city of Shiraz have been singled out as factors that intensified the recent deadly flash floods in the ancient city, southern Iran.In its report on the deadly flood, the fact-finding committee of the city council of Shiraz says, \"During past three decades, nearly 130 hectares of lands in the \"Quran Gate\" basin have have been affected by man-made structures that have prevented the water to be absorbed into the ground and intensified the floods in Shiraz.\"Furthermore, the report maintains that a mound, made by the Army, also helped the flash floods to accumulate, and intensify the flow of water.Teachers Activist Fatemeh Bahmani Receives One-Year Jail Sentence and FineTeachers activist Fatemeh Bahmani and her husband, Mohammad Kurd, are each sentenced to one-year imprisonment and payment of a fine of 2 million Tomans. Fatemeh is a mother and her child is being kept by relatives since she has been arrested.Teachers activist Fatemeh Bahmani and her husband were arrested by security forces in Arak on November 11, 2018, during Iranian teachers\u2019 nationwide strike. On that day, as the Coordinating Council of Iranian Educators\u2019 Guild Organization announced, 12 teachers were arrested and 30 teachers\u2019 activists were summoned and interrogated.The strike was to protest suppression and imprisonment of teachers, their dire living conditions, high inflation and diminution of their purchasing power.Instagram Suspends Accounts Belonging to Iran's Khamenei, IRGC LeadersThe Instagram accounts of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps\u2019 (IRGC) Quds Force, were suspended Tuesday \u2013 a day after the IRGC was officially designated by the United States as a terrorist organization.Instagram also suspended the accounts of IRGC commander-in-chief Mohammad Ali Jafari and Brig. Gen. 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