{"id":211270,"date":"2019-06-17T09:02:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T09:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/211270-iran-news-in-brief-june-15-2019"},"modified":"2020-01-24T17:42:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:42:15","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-june-15-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-15-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran news in brief, June 15, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, June 15, 2019\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_MZGoRd1A8_0\" 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%2FMZGoRd1A8_0%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MZGoRd1A8_0\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT3M7S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2019-06-15T12:08:39Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_MZGoRd1A8_0\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FMZGoRd1A8_0%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, June 15, 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\/MZGoRd1A8_0\" 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%2FMZGoRd1A8_0%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, June 15, 2019\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, June 15, 2019 Trump Says Iranian Regime Was Behind Tanker Attacks Calling the Iranian regime \u201ca nation of terror,\u201d U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed the assessment of his top advisers and publicly accused Tehran of responsibility for recent attacks on tankers near the strategic Strait of Hormuz. Trump said on Friday that the Iranian regime\u2019s culpability had been \u201cexposed\u201d. Speaking on Fox News, he said, \u201cIran did do it and you know they did it because you saw the boat,\u201d. US officials said on Thursday that the Trump administration was considering a return to providing naval escorts to vessels transiting through the maritime choke point. Arab League Chief Tells Iranian Regime to &#039;Be Careful and Reverse Course&#039; The Secretary General of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, called on the Iranian regime to &quot;be careful and reverse course.&quot; Aboul Gheit said \u201cWe believe that responsibilities need to be clearly defined\u201d. \u201cThe facts will be revealed, I am sure, it\u2019s only a matter of time.\u201d UK: Almost Certain Iran Attacked the Gulf of Oman Tankers The United Kingdom said on Friday that it is almost certain that a branch of the Iranian military attacked the two tankers on June 13 in Gulf of Oman. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said that Britain calls on the Iranian regime to urgently cease all forms of destabilizing activity, adding that no other state or non-state actor could plausibly have been responsible for the attacks. The attacks build on a pattern of destabilizing Iranian behavior and pose a serious danger to the region, said Hunt. McCaul: Iranian Regime &#039;Getting Desperate&#039; After Sanction Waivers Granted The Iranian regime is &quot;getting desperate&quot; after the U.S lifted oil sanctions waivers in early May, and Iranian leaders are lying when they say they weren&#039;t involved in the attacks in ships in the Gulf, U.S. Congressman Michael McCaul said on Friday. &quot;This is clearly an IRGC vessel,&quot; McCaul said, referring to a video showing an unexploded mine being removed from one of the hit ships. &quot;Now they&#039;re trying to cover up the evidence, going back to try to take these mines off the hull of the ship so that we couldn&#039;t catch them in the act,&quot; said McCaul. &quot;But the good thing is, we have great surveillance over there and we see everything they do.&quot;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:853px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran news in brief, June 15, 2019Trump Says Iranian Regime Was Behind Tanker Attacks Calling the Iranian regime &ldquo;a nation of terror,&rdquo; U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed the assessment of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[178],"class_list":{"0":"post-211270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-iran-news-in-brief","7":"tag-save"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Iran news in brief, June 15, 2019 - NCRI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, June 15, 2019Trump Says Iranian Regime Was Behind Tanker Attacks Calling the Iranian regime \u201ca nation of terror,\u201d U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed the assessment of his top advisers and publicly accused Tehran of responsibility for recent attacks on tankers near the strategic Strait of Hormuz.Trump said on Friday that the Iranian regime\u2019s culpability had been \u201cexposed\u201d. Speaking on Fox News, he said, \u201cIran did do it and you know they did it because you saw the boat,\u201d.US officials said on Thursday that the Trump administration was considering a return to providing naval escorts to vessels transiting through the maritime choke point. Arab League Chief Tells Iranian Regime to &#039;Be Careful and Reverse Course&#039;The Secretary General of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, called on the Iranian regime to &quot;be careful and reverse course.&quot;Aboul Gheit said \u201cWe believe that responsibilities need to be clearly defined\u201d. \u201cThe facts will be revealed, I am sure, it\u2019s only a matter of time.\u201dUK: Almost Certain Iran Attacked the Gulf of Oman TankersThe United Kingdom said on Friday that it is almost certain that a branch of the Iranian military attacked the two tankers on June 13 in Gulf of Oman.Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said that Britain calls on the Iranian regime to urgently cease all forms of destabilizing activity, adding that no other state or non-state actor could plausibly have been responsible for the attacks.The attacks build on a pattern of destabilizing Iranian behavior and pose a serious danger to the region, said Hunt.McCaul: Iranian Regime &#039;Getting Desperate&#039; After Sanction Waivers GrantedThe Iranian regime is &quot;getting desperate&quot; after the U.S lifted oil sanctions waivers in early May, and Iranian leaders are lying when they say they weren&#039;t involved in the attacks in ships in the Gulf, U.S. Congressman Michael McCaul said on Friday.&quot;This is clearly an IRGC vessel,&quot; McCaul said, referring to a video showing an unexploded mine being removed from one of the hit ships.&quot;Now they&#039;re trying to cover up the evidence, going back to try to take these mines off the hull of the ship so that we couldn&#039;t catch them in the act,&quot; said McCaul. &quot;But the good thing is, we have great surveillance over there and we see everything they do.&quot;\" \/>\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-june-15-2019\/\" \/>\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, June 15, 2019 - NCRI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, June 15, 2019Trump Says Iranian Regime Was Behind Tanker Attacks Calling the Iranian regime \u201ca nation of terror,\u201d U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed the assessment of his top advisers and publicly accused Tehran of responsibility for recent attacks on tankers near the strategic Strait of Hormuz.Trump said on Friday that the Iranian regime\u2019s culpability had been \u201cexposed\u201d. Speaking on Fox News, he said, \u201cIran did do it and you know they did it because you saw the boat,\u201d.US officials said on Thursday that the Trump administration was considering a return to providing naval escorts to vessels transiting through the maritime choke point. Arab League Chief Tells Iranian Regime to &#039;Be Careful and Reverse Course&#039;The Secretary General of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, called on the Iranian regime to &quot;be careful and reverse course.&quot;Aboul Gheit said \u201cWe believe that responsibilities need to be clearly defined\u201d. \u201cThe facts will be revealed, I am sure, it\u2019s only a matter of time.\u201dUK: Almost Certain Iran Attacked the Gulf of Oman TankersThe United Kingdom said on Friday that it is almost certain that a branch of the Iranian military attacked the two tankers on June 13 in Gulf of Oman.Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said that Britain calls on the Iranian regime to urgently cease all forms of destabilizing activity, adding that no other state or non-state actor could plausibly have been responsible for the attacks.The attacks build on a pattern of destabilizing Iranian behavior and pose a serious danger to the region, said Hunt.McCaul: Iranian Regime &#039;Getting Desperate&#039; After Sanction Waivers GrantedThe Iranian regime is &quot;getting desperate&quot; after the U.S lifted oil sanctions waivers in early May, and Iranian leaders are lying when they say they weren&#039;t involved in the attacks in ships in the Gulf, U.S. Congressman Michael McCaul said on Friday.&quot;This is clearly an IRGC vessel,&quot; McCaul said, referring to a video showing an unexploded mine being removed from one of the hit ships.&quot;Now they&#039;re trying to cover up the evidence, going back to try to take these mines off the hull of the ship so that we couldn&#039;t catch them in the act,&quot; said McCaul. &quot;But the good thing is, we have great surveillance over there and we see everything they do.&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-15-2019\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"NCRI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-06-17T09:02:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-01-24T17:42:15+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-june-15-2019\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-june-15-2019\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Iran news in brief, June 15, 2019\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-17T09:02:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-24T17:42:15+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-june-15-2019\\\/\"},\"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-june-15-2019\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-june-15-2019\\\/\",\"name\":\"Iran news in brief, June 15, 2019 - NCRI\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-17T09:02:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-24T17:42:15+00:00\",\"description\":\"Iran news in brief, June 15, 2019Trump Says Iranian Regime Was Behind Tanker Attacks Calling the Iranian regime \u201ca nation of terror,\u201d U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed the assessment of his top advisers and publicly accused Tehran of responsibility for recent attacks on tankers near the strategic Strait of Hormuz.Trump said on Friday that the Iranian regime\u2019s culpability had been \u201cexposed\u201d. 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Arab League Chief Tells Iranian Regime to 'Be Careful and Reverse Course'The Secretary General of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, called on the Iranian regime to \"be careful and reverse course.\"Aboul Gheit said \u201cWe believe that responsibilities need to be clearly defined\u201d. \u201cThe facts will be revealed, I am sure, it\u2019s only a matter of time.\u201dUK: Almost Certain Iran Attacked the Gulf of Oman TankersThe United Kingdom said on Friday that it is almost certain that a branch of the Iranian military attacked the two tankers on June 13 in Gulf of Oman.Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said that Britain calls on the Iranian regime to urgently cease all forms of destabilizing activity, adding that no other state or non-state actor could plausibly have been responsible for the attacks.The attacks build on a pattern of destabilizing Iranian behavior and pose a serious danger to the region, said Hunt.McCaul: Iranian Regime 'Getting Desperate' After Sanction Waivers GrantedThe Iranian regime is \"getting desperate\" after the U.S lifted oil sanctions waivers in early May, and Iranian leaders are lying when they say they weren't involved in the attacks in ships in the Gulf, U.S. Congressman Michael McCaul said on Friday.\"This is clearly an IRGC vessel,\" McCaul said, referring to a video showing an unexploded mine being removed from one of the hit ships.\"Now they're trying to cover up the evidence, going back to try to take these mines off the hull of the ship so that we couldn't catch them in the act,\" said McCaul. \"But the good thing is, we have great surveillance over there and we see everything they do.\"","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-15-2019\/","og_site_name":"NCRI","article_published_time":"2019-06-17T09:02:39+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-01-24T17:42:15+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-june-15-2019\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-15-2019\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Iran news in brief, June 15, 2019","datePublished":"2019-06-17T09:02:39+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T17:42:15+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-15-2019\/"},"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-june-15-2019\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-15-2019\/","name":"Iran news in brief, June 15, 2019 - NCRI","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2019-06-17T09:02:39+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T17:42:15+00:00","description":"Iran news in brief, June 15, 2019Trump Says Iranian Regime Was Behind Tanker Attacks Calling the Iranian regime \u201ca nation of terror,\u201d U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed the assessment of his top advisers and publicly accused Tehran of responsibility for recent attacks on tankers near the strategic Strait of Hormuz.Trump said on Friday that the Iranian regime\u2019s culpability had been \u201cexposed\u201d. Speaking on Fox News, he said, \u201cIran did do it and you know they did it because you saw the boat,\u201d.US officials said on Thursday that the Trump administration was considering a return to providing naval escorts to vessels transiting through the maritime choke point. 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