{"id":211287,"date":"2019-07-02T14:52:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T14:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/211287-iran-news-in-brief-june-29-2019"},"modified":"2020-01-24T17:42:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:42:07","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-june-29-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-29-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran news in brief, June 29, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, June 29, 2019\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_ys8KwGLrTYc\" 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%2Fys8KwGLrTYc%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ys8KwGLrTYc\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT5M14S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2019-06-30T07:47:04Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_ys8KwGLrTYc\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Fys8KwGLrTYc%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, June 29, 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\/ys8KwGLrTYc\" 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%2Fys8KwGLrTYc%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, June 29, 2019\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, June 29, 2019 Young Activist Dies Under Suspicious Circumstances in Iranian Jail A young Iranian Arab man named Benyamin Albughobeish has been killed in an Iranian prison, according to local human rights sources in Ahvaz. On June 26, Benyamin\u2019s family received a phone call from the Iranian Intelligence Ministry office in Ahvaz, informing them of the death of their son at the Intelligence Ministry\u2019s detention center in the city. Benyamin, 29, along with his brother Mohammad-Ali Albughobeish, 26, and his mother, Maryam Zobeidi, 52, were arrested on March 15, 2018, by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence in Ahvaz. One of Benyamin\u2019s relatives said, &quot;They killed Benyamin under torture. He was young and healthy and had no problems. The intelligence agents have tortured and threatened him and his mother, who was imprisoned in Sepidar Prison\u201d. Call to Condemn Hostage-Taking by Iran\u2019s Regime Reports from inside Iran say health conditions of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliff have deteriorated in prison. Meanwhile, her husband Richard Ratcliff has started the third week of his hunger strike outside the clerical regime\u2019s embassy in London. Kidnapping and hostage taking have been some of the main tools of the clerical regime to advance their policies from the onset. The NCRI Women\u2019s Committee called on the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Human Rights Council to condemn decisively the Iranian regime\u2019s abduction and hostage taking. It further called for urgent action to free Ms. Nazanin Zaghari. U.S. Tells Europe: Choose Between Us and Iran, as New Trading System Launches The U.S. special representative for Iran said Friday that European companies have a choice: Do business with the United States or do business with the Iranian regime, as Europe announced that a new system to allow trade with Tehran was in place. The comments by Brian Hook came as European countries made a last-ditch effort to prevent Tehran from breaching the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal. Europe has been scrambling to come up with a mechanism to persuade the Iranian regime to stay within the limits of the deal. The regime has said that if it does not receive some form of sanctions relief, it plans to exceed the limit of 300 kilograms of low-enriched uranium that it is allowed to possess under the nuclear agreement. Iran Using Malaysia to Sidestep U.S. Sanctions on Oil Exports The Iranian regime is &quot;secretly selling oil&quot; by getting assistance from Malaysia to sidestep U.S. sanctions, reports say. Referring to the latest findings by a Sweden-based company Tanker Trackers, the world&#039;s largest financial newspaper Japanese Nikkei reported on Thursday, Tehran&#039;s efforts to sustain its oil exports to Asia in the face of tightened U.S. sanctions appear to be getting some assistance from Malaysia, according to analysis of data on ship movements. &quot;Iranian oil typically arrives in the Straits of Malacca and is handed over using ship-to-ship oil transfer to Chinese very large crude carriers,&quot; according to the co-founder of TankerTrackers. Iran State TV Quietly Earns Hard Currency on You Tube The Iranian regime\u2019s state TV, which is controlled by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has been collecting advertising revenues in hard currency on YouTube, the state-run Shahrvand newspaper reported in Tehran on June 25. Based on the report, the regime\u2019s state television - The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, or IRIB - has begun showcasing, marketing and webcasting its TV sitcoms and some other programs for Persian-speakers in the diaspora. 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The regime has said that if it does not receive some form of sanctions relief, it plans to exceed the limit of 300 kilograms of low-enriched uranium that it is allowed to possess under the nuclear agreement.Iran Using Malaysia to Sidestep U.S. Sanctions on Oil ExportsThe Iranian regime is &quot;secretly selling oil&quot; by getting assistance from Malaysia to sidestep U.S. sanctions, reports say.Referring to the latest findings by a Sweden-based company Tanker Trackers, the world&#039;s largest financial newspaper Japanese Nikkei reported on Thursday, Tehran&#039;s efforts to sustain its oil exports to Asia in the face of tightened U.S. sanctions appear to be getting some assistance from Malaysia, according to analysis of data on ship movements.&quot;Iranian oil typically arrives in the Straits of Malacca and is handed over using ship-to-ship oil transfer to Chinese very large crude carriers,&quot; according to the co-founder of TankerTrackers.Iran State TV Quietly Earns Hard Currency on You TubeThe Iranian regime\u2019s state TV, which is controlled by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has been collecting advertising revenues in hard currency on YouTube, the state-run Shahrvand newspaper reported in Tehran on June 25.Based on the report, the regime\u2019s state television - The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, or IRIB - has begun showcasing, marketing and webcasting its TV sitcoms and some other programs for Persian-speakers in the diaspora.According to Shahrvand, the IRIB may still be testing the waters to make sure that making money on YouTube is feasible.\" \/>\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-29-2019\/\" \/>\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 29, 2019 - NCRI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, June 29, 2019Young Activist Dies Under Suspicious Circumstances in Iranian Jail A young Iranian Arab man named Benyamin Albughobeish has been killed in an Iranian prison, according to local human rights sources in Ahvaz.On June 26, Benyamin\u2019s family received a phone call from the Iranian Intelligence Ministry office in Ahvaz, informing them of the death of their son at the Intelligence Ministry\u2019s detention center in the city.Benyamin, 29, along with his brother Mohammad-Ali Albughobeish, 26, and his mother, Maryam Zobeidi, 52, were arrested on March 15, 2018, by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence in Ahvaz.One of Benyamin\u2019s relatives said, &quot;They killed Benyamin under torture. 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He was young and healthy and had no problems. The intelligence agents have tortured and threatened him and his mother, who was imprisoned in Sepidar Prison\u201d.Call to Condemn Hostage-Taking by Iran\u2019s RegimeReports from inside Iran say health conditions of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliff have deteriorated in prison. Meanwhile, her husband Richard Ratcliff has started the third week of his hunger strike outside the clerical regime\u2019s embassy in London.Kidnapping and hostage taking have been some of the main tools of the clerical regime to advance their policies from the onset.The NCRI Women\u2019s Committee called on the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Human Rights Council to condemn decisively the Iranian regime\u2019s abduction and hostage taking. It further called for urgent action to free Ms. Nazanin Zaghari.U.S. Tells Europe: Choose Between Us and Iran, as New Trading System LaunchesThe U.S. special representative for Iran said Friday that European companies have a choice: Do business with the United States or do business with the Iranian regime, as Europe announced that a new system to allow trade with Tehran was in place.The comments by Brian Hook came as European countries made a last-ditch effort to prevent Tehran from breaching the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal.Europe has been scrambling to come up with a mechanism to persuade the Iranian regime to stay within the limits of the deal. The regime has said that if it does not receive some form of sanctions relief, it plans to exceed the limit of 300 kilograms of low-enriched uranium that it is allowed to possess under the nuclear agreement.Iran Using Malaysia to Sidestep U.S. Sanctions on Oil ExportsThe Iranian regime is \"secretly selling oil\" by getting assistance from Malaysia to sidestep U.S. sanctions, reports say.Referring to the latest findings by a Sweden-based company Tanker Trackers, the world's largest financial newspaper Japanese Nikkei reported on Thursday, Tehran's efforts to sustain its oil exports to Asia in the face of tightened U.S. sanctions appear to be getting some assistance from Malaysia, according to analysis of data on ship movements.\"Iranian oil typically arrives in the Straits of Malacca and is handed over using ship-to-ship oil transfer to Chinese very large crude carriers,\" according to the co-founder of TankerTrackers.Iran State TV Quietly Earns Hard Currency on You TubeThe Iranian regime\u2019s state TV, which is controlled by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has been collecting advertising revenues in hard currency on YouTube, the state-run Shahrvand newspaper reported in Tehran on June 25.Based on the report, the regime\u2019s state television - The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, or IRIB - has begun showcasing, marketing and webcasting its TV sitcoms and some other programs for Persian-speakers in the diaspora.According to Shahrvand, the IRIB may still be testing the waters to make sure that making money on YouTube is feasible.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-29-2019\/","og_site_name":"NCRI","article_published_time":"2019-07-02T14:52:52+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-01-24T17:42:07+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-29-2019\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-29-2019\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Iran news in brief, June 29, 2019","datePublished":"2019-07-02T14:52:52+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T17:42:07+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-29-2019\/"},"wordCount":15,"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-29-2019\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-29-2019\/","name":"Iran news in brief, June 29, 2019 - NCRI","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2019-07-02T14:52:52+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T17:42:07+00:00","description":"Iran news in brief, June 29, 2019Young Activist Dies Under Suspicious Circumstances in Iranian Jail A young Iranian Arab man named Benyamin Albughobeish has been killed in an Iranian prison, according to local human rights sources in Ahvaz.On June 26, Benyamin\u2019s family received a phone call from the Iranian Intelligence Ministry office in Ahvaz, informing them of the death of their son at the Intelligence Ministry\u2019s detention center in the city.Benyamin, 29, along with his brother Mohammad-Ali Albughobeish, 26, and his mother, Maryam Zobeidi, 52, were arrested on March 15, 2018, by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence in Ahvaz.One of Benyamin\u2019s relatives said, \"They killed Benyamin under torture. He was young and healthy and had no problems. The intelligence agents have tortured and threatened him and his mother, who was imprisoned in Sepidar Prison\u201d.Call to Condemn Hostage-Taking by Iran\u2019s RegimeReports from inside Iran say health conditions of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliff have deteriorated in prison. Meanwhile, her husband Richard Ratcliff has started the third week of his hunger strike outside the clerical regime\u2019s embassy in London.Kidnapping and hostage taking have been some of the main tools of the clerical regime to advance their policies from the onset.The NCRI Women\u2019s Committee called on the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Human Rights Council to condemn decisively the Iranian regime\u2019s abduction and hostage taking. It further called for urgent action to free Ms. Nazanin Zaghari.U.S. Tells Europe: Choose Between Us and Iran, as New Trading System LaunchesThe U.S. special representative for Iran said Friday that European companies have a choice: Do business with the United States or do business with the Iranian regime, as Europe announced that a new system to allow trade with Tehran was in place.The comments by Brian Hook came as European countries made a last-ditch effort to prevent Tehran from breaching the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal.Europe has been scrambling to come up with a mechanism to persuade the Iranian regime to stay within the limits of the deal. The regime has said that if it does not receive some form of sanctions relief, it plans to exceed the limit of 300 kilograms of low-enriched uranium that it is allowed to possess under the nuclear agreement.Iran Using Malaysia to Sidestep U.S. Sanctions on Oil ExportsThe Iranian regime is \"secretly selling oil\" by getting assistance from Malaysia to sidestep U.S. sanctions, reports say.Referring to the latest findings by a Sweden-based company Tanker Trackers, the world's largest financial newspaper Japanese Nikkei reported on Thursday, Tehran's efforts to sustain its oil exports to Asia in the face of tightened U.S. sanctions appear to be getting some assistance from Malaysia, according to analysis of data on ship movements.\"Iranian oil typically arrives in the Straits of Malacca and is handed over using ship-to-ship oil transfer to Chinese very large crude carriers,\" according to the co-founder of TankerTrackers.Iran State TV Quietly Earns Hard Currency on You TubeThe Iranian regime\u2019s state TV, which is controlled by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has been collecting advertising revenues in hard currency on YouTube, the state-run Shahrvand newspaper reported in Tehran on June 25.Based on the report, the regime\u2019s state television - The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, or IRIB - has begun showcasing, marketing and webcasting its TV sitcoms and some other programs for Persian-speakers in the diaspora.According to Shahrvand, the IRIB may still be testing the waters to make sure that making money on YouTube is feasible.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-29-2019\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-29-2019\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-june-29-2019\/#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 29, 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\/211287","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=211287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}