{"id":211274,"date":"2019-06-19T13:17:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T13:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/211274-iran-news-in-brief-june-19-2019"},"modified":"2020-01-24T17:42:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:42:14","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-june-19-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-19-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran news in brief, June 19, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, June 19, 2019\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_Ku5y8vZlsNI\" 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%2FKu5y8vZlsNI%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ku5y8vZlsNI\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT3M42S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2019-06-19T09:28:08Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_Ku5y8vZlsNI\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FKu5y8vZlsNI%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, June 19, 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\/Ku5y8vZlsNI\" 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%2FKu5y8vZlsNI%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, June 19, 2019\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, June 19, 2019 Iran Regime Hangs Three Prisoners Today Three prisoners were hanged at dawn on Wednesday in Bandar Abbas. The state-run Fars News Agency quoted the regime\u2019s top judiciary official in Hormozgan Province as saying the trio were hanged in the city\u2019s prison. The victims\u2019 names were not given. Iran is the world\u2019s number one executioner per capita. Iranian Pensioners and Hospital Employees Hold Protests Iranian pensioners gathered on Tuesday outside the Parliament in Tehran to protest their inadequate pensions. The pensioners said that the managers of their Fund make excuses not to implement the law and increase their pension. The protesters were heard chanting: \u201cPensioners would die rather than accept abjection\u201d and \u201cWe\u2019re all together and fed up of empty promises.\u201d In May, retirees including government workers and teachers held three protests. They have in the past year held a number of protest rallies though none of their demands were met. On the other hand, the employees of the Imam Khomeini public Hospital in Karaj gathered for a second consecutive day outside the municipal organization in protest to not being paid their wages for the past months and the uncertain fate of the hospital. Two Independent Fuel Dealers Shot Dead in Iran n a brutal act by the Iranian Regime\u2019s Revolutionary Guards on Saturday, a young independent Balouchi fuel deliverer was shot dead outside the town of Sarbaz, southeast of Iran. He was driving a pickup truck carrying fuel containers. Another fuel deliverer in Sistan &amp; Balouchestan province was attacked and shot by Revolutionary Guards on Sunday. He died in Kerman hospital due to his wounds. Germany Says There Is &#039;Strong Evidence&#039; Iranian Regime Behind Tanker Attacks German Chancellor Angela Merkel said there is \u201cstrong evidence\u201d supporting a U.S. accusation that the Iranian regime was behind last week\u2019s attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. \u201cWe of course take these explanations very seriously, and there is strong evidence,\u201d Merkel said at a news conference Tuesday. The Pentagon on Monday released new photos and a timeline of the attacks. Merkel also said there will be consequences if the Iranian regime doesn&#039;t uphold its end of the nuclear pact. \u201cWe are pushing for Iran to keep to (the nuclear pact) - if that is not the case, there will of course be consequences,\u201d she said. Pompeo: US Must Be Able to Respond to Any Iranian Attack The United States must have the capability to respond to any Iranian attack on US interests, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday. He spoke at the Florida headquarters of US Central Command, which oversees the US forces in the Middle East, a day after the US said it was sending another 1,000 troops to the region in response to what it called hostile behavior by Tehran. That deployment should \u201cconvince the Islamic government of Iran that we are serious and to deter them from further aggression in the region,\u201d Pompeo said.\"><\/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 19, 2019Iran Regime Hangs Three Prisoners Today Three prisoners were hanged at dawn on Wednesday in Bandar Abbas. 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The victims\u2019 names were not given.Iran is the world\u2019s number one executioner per capita.Iranian Pensioners and Hospital Employees Hold ProtestsIranian pensioners gathered on Tuesday outside the Parliament in Tehran to protest their inadequate pensions.The pensioners said that the managers of their Fund make excuses not to implement the law and increase their pension.The protesters were heard chanting: \u201cPensioners would die rather than accept abjection\u201d and \u201cWe\u2019re all together and fed up of empty promises.\u201dIn May, retirees including government workers and teachers held three protests. They have in the past year held a number of protest rallies though none of their demands were met.On the other hand, the employees of the Imam Khomeini public Hospital in Karaj gathered for a second consecutive day outside the municipal organization in protest to not being paid their wages for the past months and the uncertain fate of the hospital.Two Independent Fuel Dealers Shot Dead in Irann a brutal act by the Iranian Regime\u2019s Revolutionary Guards on Saturday, a young independent Balouchi fuel deliverer was shot dead outside the town of Sarbaz, southeast of Iran. He was driving a pickup truck carrying fuel containers. Another fuel deliverer in Sistan &amp; Balouchestan province was attacked and shot by Revolutionary Guards on Sunday. He died in Kerman hospital due to his wounds. Germany Says There Is &#039;Strong Evidence&#039; Iranian Regime Behind Tanker AttacksGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel said there is \u201cstrong evidence\u201d supporting a U.S. accusation that the Iranian regime was behind last week\u2019s attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman.\u201cWe of course take these explanations very seriously, and there is strong evidence,\u201d Merkel said at a news conference Tuesday.The Pentagon on Monday released new photos and a timeline of the attacks. Merkel also said there will be consequences if the Iranian regime doesn&#039;t uphold its end of the nuclear pact. \u201cWe are pushing for Iran to keep to (the nuclear pact) - if that is not the case, there will of course be consequences,\u201d she said.Pompeo: US Must Be Able to Respond to Any Iranian AttackThe United States must have the capability to respond to any Iranian attack on US interests, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday.He spoke at the Florida headquarters of US Central Command, which oversees the US forces in the Middle East, a day after the US said it was sending another 1,000 troops to the region in response to what it called hostile behavior by Tehran.That deployment should \u201cconvince the Islamic government of Iran that we are serious and to deter them from further aggression in the region,\u201d Pompeo said.\" \/>\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-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, June 19, 2019 - NCRI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, June 19, 2019Iran Regime Hangs Three Prisoners Today Three prisoners were hanged at dawn on Wednesday in Bandar Abbas. 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They have in the past year held a number of protest rallies though none of their demands were met.On the other hand, the employees of the Imam Khomeini public Hospital in Karaj gathered for a second consecutive day outside the municipal organization in protest to not being paid their wages for the past months and the uncertain fate of the hospital.Two Independent Fuel Dealers Shot Dead in Irann a brutal act by the Iranian Regime\u2019s Revolutionary Guards on Saturday, a young independent Balouchi fuel deliverer was shot dead outside the town of Sarbaz, southeast of Iran. He was driving a pickup truck carrying fuel containers. Another fuel deliverer in Sistan &amp; Balouchestan province was attacked and shot by Revolutionary Guards on Sunday. He died in Kerman hospital due to his wounds. Germany Says There Is &#039;Strong Evidence&#039; Iranian Regime Behind Tanker AttacksGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel said there is \u201cstrong evidence\u201d supporting a U.S. accusation that the Iranian regime was behind last week\u2019s attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman.\u201cWe of course take these explanations very seriously, and there is strong evidence,\u201d Merkel said at a news conference Tuesday.The Pentagon on Monday released new photos and a timeline of the attacks. Merkel also said there will be consequences if the Iranian regime doesn&#039;t uphold its end of the nuclear pact. \u201cWe are pushing for Iran to keep to (the nuclear pact) - if that is not the case, there will of course be consequences,\u201d she said.Pompeo: US Must Be Able to Respond to Any Iranian AttackThe United States must have the capability to respond to any Iranian attack on US interests, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday.He spoke at the Florida headquarters of US Central Command, which oversees the US forces in the Middle East, a day after the US said it was sending another 1,000 troops to the region in response to what it called hostile behavior by Tehran.That deployment should \u201cconvince the Islamic government of Iran that we are serious and to deter them from further aggression in the region,\u201d Pompeo said.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-19-2019\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"NCRI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-06-19T13:17:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-01-24T17:42:14+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-19-2019\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-june-19-2019\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Iran news in brief, June 19, 2019\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-19T13:17:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-24T17:42:14+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-june-19-2019\\\/\"},\"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-june-19-2019\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-june-19-2019\\\/\",\"name\":\"Iran news in brief, June 19, 2019 - NCRI\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-19T13:17:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-24T17:42:14+00:00\",\"description\":\"Iran news in brief, June 19, 2019Iran Regime Hangs Three Prisoners Today Three prisoners were hanged at dawn on Wednesday in Bandar Abbas. 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Germany Says There Is 'Strong Evidence' Iranian Regime Behind Tanker AttacksGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel said there is \u201cstrong evidence\u201d supporting a U.S. accusation that the Iranian regime was behind last week\u2019s attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman.\u201cWe of course take these explanations very seriously, and there is strong evidence,\u201d Merkel said at a news conference Tuesday.The Pentagon on Monday released new photos and a timeline of the attacks. Merkel also said there will be consequences if the Iranian regime doesn't uphold its end of the nuclear pact. \u201cWe are pushing for Iran to keep to (the nuclear pact) - if that is not the case, there will of course be consequences,\u201d she said.Pompeo: US Must Be Able to Respond to Any Iranian AttackThe United States must have the capability to respond to any Iranian attack on US interests, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday.He spoke at the Florida headquarters of US Central Command, which oversees the US forces in the Middle East, a day after the US said it was sending another 1,000 troops to the region in response to what it called hostile behavior by Tehran.That deployment should \u201cconvince the Islamic government of Iran that we are serious and to deter them from further aggression in the region,\u201d Pompeo said.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-19-2019\/","og_site_name":"NCRI","article_published_time":"2019-06-19T13:17:37+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-01-24T17:42:14+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-19-2019\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-19-2019\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Iran news in brief, June 19, 2019","datePublished":"2019-06-19T13:17:37+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T17:42:14+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-19-2019\/"},"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-june-19-2019\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-19-2019\/","name":"Iran news in brief, June 19, 2019 - NCRI","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2019-06-19T13:17:37+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T17:42:14+00:00","description":"Iran news in brief, June 19, 2019Iran Regime Hangs Three Prisoners Today Three prisoners were hanged at dawn on Wednesday in Bandar Abbas. The state-run Fars News Agency quoted the regime\u2019s top judiciary official in Hormozgan Province as saying the trio were hanged in the city\u2019s prison. The victims\u2019 names were not given.Iran is the world\u2019s number one executioner per capita.Iranian Pensioners and Hospital Employees Hold ProtestsIranian pensioners gathered on Tuesday outside the Parliament in Tehran to protest their inadequate pensions.The pensioners said that the managers of their Fund make excuses not to implement the law and increase their pension.The protesters were heard chanting: \u201cPensioners would die rather than accept abjection\u201d and \u201cWe\u2019re all together and fed up of empty promises.\u201dIn May, retirees including government workers and teachers held three protests. They have in the past year held a number of protest rallies though none of their demands were met.On the other hand, the employees of the Imam Khomeini public Hospital in Karaj gathered for a second consecutive day outside the municipal organization in protest to not being paid their wages for the past months and the uncertain fate of the hospital.Two Independent Fuel Dealers Shot Dead in Irann a brutal act by the Iranian Regime\u2019s Revolutionary Guards on Saturday, a young independent Balouchi fuel deliverer was shot dead outside the town of Sarbaz, southeast of Iran. He was driving a pickup truck carrying fuel containers. Another fuel deliverer in Sistan &amp; Balouchestan province was attacked and shot by Revolutionary Guards on Sunday. He died in Kerman hospital due to his wounds. Germany Says There Is 'Strong Evidence' Iranian Regime Behind Tanker AttacksGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel said there is \u201cstrong evidence\u201d supporting a U.S. accusation that the Iranian regime was behind last week\u2019s attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman.\u201cWe of course take these explanations very seriously, and there is strong evidence,\u201d Merkel said at a news conference Tuesday.The Pentagon on Monday released new photos and a timeline of the attacks. Merkel also said there will be consequences if the Iranian regime doesn't uphold its end of the nuclear pact. \u201cWe are pushing for Iran to keep to (the nuclear pact) - if that is not the case, there will of course be consequences,\u201d she said.Pompeo: US Must Be Able to Respond to Any Iranian AttackThe United States must have the capability to respond to any Iranian attack on US interests, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday.He spoke at the Florida headquarters of US Central Command, which oversees the US forces in the Middle East, a day after the US said it was sending another 1,000 troops to the region in response to what it called hostile behavior by Tehran.That deployment should \u201cconvince the Islamic government of Iran that we are serious and to deter them from further aggression in the region,\u201d Pompeo said.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-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-june-19-2019\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-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, June 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\/211274","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=211274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}