{"id":211294,"date":"2019-07-05T09:15:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T09:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/211294-iran-news-in-brief-july-4-2019"},"modified":"2020-01-24T17:42:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:42:05","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-july-4-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-july-4-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran news in brief, July 4, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, July 4, 2019\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_2jSt40VWBZM\" 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%2F2jSt40VWBZM%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2jSt40VWBZM\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT4M51S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2019-07-04T09:52:36Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_2jSt40VWBZM\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F2jSt40VWBZM%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, July 4, 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\/2jSt40VWBZM\" 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%2F2jSt40VWBZM%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, July 4, 2019\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, July 4, 2019 Reaction to Iranian Regime&#039;s Announcement That It Will Increase Uranium Enrichment on Sunday The Iranian Regime\u2019s President Hassan Rouhani declared on Wednesday that from this coming Sunday the regime will increase its enrichment of uranium to any amount it wants and will recommence activities at its heavy water reactor in Arak. His remarks were broadcast by state television. Commenting on Rouhani\u2019s announcement, the Chair of the NCRI Foreign Affairs Committee, Mohammad Mohaddessin, said: \u201cThe events of recent days and Rouhani\u2019s announcement today show clearly that the mullahs\u2019 regime never abandoned its nuclear weapons projects and it is trying to find an opportunity to pursue it once again. As the Iranian Resistance has repeatedly stated, the regime must not be allowed to carry out any uranium enrichment and its nuclear projects must be entirely dismantled.\u201d France Says Iran Regime Will Gain Nothing by Breaking With Nuclear Deal Iran\u2019s regime will gain nothing by departing from the terms of its nuclear agreement, the French foreign ministry said on Wednesday, responding to Tehran&#039;s announcement that it will boost the enrichment level of its uranium. &quot;Iran will gain nothing by leaving the Vienna accord,&quot; the French Foreign ministry spokesperson told the daily briefing. Trump Warns Iranian Regime to Be \u2018Careful With Threats\u2019 US President Donald Trump warned the Iranian regime Wednesday its threats could \u201ccome back to bite\u201d after Tehran vowed to exceed the maximum uranium enrichment level allowed by the nuclear deal. Trump tweeted: \u201cIran has just issued a New Warning. Rouhani says that they will Enrich Uranium to \u2018any amount we want\u2019 if there is no new Nuclear Deal\u201d. \u201cBe careful with the threats, Iran. They can come back to bite you like nobody has been bitten before!\u201d Iran State TV Blasted Over Report on Secret Oil Sales Iranian regime officials slammed the country\u2019s state television on Wednesday for airing a program on oil sales to China that contravene US sanctions, saying the report went \u201cagainst national interests.\u201d The \u201cHello, Good Morning\u201d talk show featured on Tuesday a program on the Salina, an Iranian-flagged tanker under US sanctions that reportedly had delivered 1 million barrels of crude oil to China\u2019s Jinzhou port in late June. \u201cThis shows that sanctions are ineffective and Iran\u2019s path to sell its oil is not blocked,\u201d the program\u2019s host said, showing what he claimed were satellite photos of the tanker berthed at the Chinese port. The state broadcaster immediately came under fire from local media who called the program \u201csuspicious\u201d, with officials weighing in the next day. \u201cThis will hurt (Iran\u2019s) national interests,\u201d the regime\u2019s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said. Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said that the program \u201chas undone what the ministry set out to do.\u201d He had said previously that Iran was keeping up oil sales through \u201cunconventional\u201d means kept secret to skirt US sanctions. Supporters of a Free Iran to March in Berlin on Saturday Thousands of Iranians will march in Berlin on Saturday in support of an end to the religious dictatorship ruling Iran. Supporters of the Iranian Resistance will urge the European Union to impose sanctions on the mullahs&#039; regime and to support the democratic aspirations of the Iranian people. Supporters of the main democratic opposition People&#039;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran will rally at the Brandenburg Gate in the German capital in the third of a series of major &#039;Free Iran&#039; marches going on in Europe and the United States. Prominent German dignitaries and lawmakers are scheduled to speak at Saturday&#039;s rally. Two other marches were held in Brussels and Washington by MEK supporters in solidarity with the anti-regime protests that have rocked Iran since December 2017. Iran Attorney General Reacts to Police Brutality Video, Vows to Continue Crackdown The Iranian Regime\u2019s Attorney General implicitly reacted to a police brutality video published on social media showing an ununiformed police agent brutally arresting a young woman for so-called \u201cimmoral\u201d conduct in Tehran. \u201cThe Judiciary supports a powerful police force\u201d, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri told journalists, adding that \u201cthe Judiciary does not pay any attention to these kinds of propaganda and hype.\u201d He encouraged the police and security forces to continue dealing with what he called \u201csocial abnormalities\u201d. \u201cWe expect police to deal with abnormalities of any kind,\u201d Montazeri said adding that the Judiciary had a duty to give permits to the police wherever necessary.\"><\/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, July 4, 2019Reaction to Iranian Regime&#8217;s Announcement That It Will Increase Uranium Enrichment on Sunday The Iranian Regime&rsquo;s President Hassan Rouhani declared on Wednesday that from [&#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-211294","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 v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Iran news in brief, July 4, 2019 - NCRI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, July 4, 2019Reaction to Iranian Regime&#039;s Announcement That It Will Increase Uranium Enrichment on Sunday The Iranian Regime\u2019s President Hassan Rouhani declared on Wednesday that from this coming Sunday the regime will increase its enrichment of uranium to any amount it wants and will recommence activities at its heavy water reactor in Arak.His remarks were broadcast by state television.Commenting on Rouhani\u2019s announcement, the Chair of the NCRI Foreign Affairs Committee, Mohammad Mohaddessin, said: \u201cThe events of recent days and Rouhani\u2019s announcement today show clearly that the mullahs\u2019 regime never abandoned its nuclear weapons projects and it is trying to find an opportunity to pursue it once again. As the Iranian Resistance has repeatedly stated, the regime must not be allowed to carry out any uranium enrichment and its nuclear projects must be entirely dismantled.\u201dFrance Says Iran Regime Will Gain Nothing by Breaking With Nuclear DealIran\u2019s regime will gain nothing by departing from the terms of its nuclear agreement, the French foreign ministry said on Wednesday, responding to Tehran&#039;s announcement that it will boost the enrichment level of its uranium.&quot;Iran will gain nothing by leaving the Vienna accord,&quot; the French Foreign ministry spokesperson told the daily briefing.Trump Warns Iranian Regime to Be \u2018Careful With Threats\u2019US President Donald Trump warned the Iranian regime Wednesday its threats could \u201ccome back to bite\u201d after Tehran vowed to exceed the maximum uranium enrichment level allowed by the nuclear deal.Trump tweeted: \u201cIran has just issued a New Warning. Rouhani says that they will Enrich Uranium to \u2018any amount we want\u2019 if there is no new Nuclear Deal\u201d. \u201cBe careful with the threats, Iran. They can come back to bite you like nobody has been bitten before!\u201dIran State TV Blasted Over Report on Secret Oil SalesIranian regime officials slammed the country\u2019s state television on Wednesday for airing a program on oil sales to China that contravene US sanctions, saying the report went \u201cagainst national interests.\u201dThe \u201cHello, Good Morning\u201d talk show featured on Tuesday a program on the Salina, an Iranian-flagged tanker under US sanctions that reportedly had delivered 1 million barrels of crude oil to China\u2019s Jinzhou port in late June.\u201cThis shows that sanctions are ineffective and Iran\u2019s path to sell its oil is not blocked,\u201d the program\u2019s host said, showing what he claimed were satellite photos of the tanker berthed at the Chinese port.The state broadcaster immediately came under fire from local media who called the program \u201csuspicious\u201d, with officials weighing in the next day.\u201cThis will hurt (Iran\u2019s) national interests,\u201d the regime\u2019s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said.Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said that the program \u201chas undone what the ministry set out to do.\u201dHe had said previously that Iran was keeping up oil sales through \u201cunconventional\u201d means kept secret to skirt US sanctions.Supporters of a Free Iran to March in Berlin on SaturdayThousands of Iranians will march in Berlin on Saturday in support of an end to the religious dictatorship ruling Iran. Supporters of the Iranian Resistance will urge the European Union to impose sanctions on the mullahs&#039; regime and to support the democratic aspirations of the Iranian people.Supporters of the main democratic opposition People&#039;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran will rally at the Brandenburg Gate in the German capital in the third of a series of major &#039;Free Iran&#039; marches going on in Europe and the United States.Prominent German dignitaries and lawmakers are scheduled to speak at Saturday&#039;s rally.Two other marches were held in Brussels and Washington by MEK supporters in solidarity with the anti-regime protests that have rocked Iran since December 2017.Iran Attorney General Reacts to Police Brutality Video, Vows to Continue CrackdownThe Iranian Regime\u2019s Attorney General implicitly reacted to a police brutality video published on social media showing an ununiformed police agent brutally arresting a young woman for so-called \u201cimmoral\u201d conduct in Tehran. \u201cThe Judiciary supports a powerful police force\u201d, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri told journalists, adding that \u201cthe Judiciary does not pay any attention to these kinds of propaganda and hype.\u201dHe encouraged the police and security forces to continue dealing with what he called \u201csocial abnormalities\u201d.\u201cWe expect police to deal with abnormalities of any kind,\u201d Montazeri said adding that the Judiciary had a duty to give permits to the police wherever necessary.\" \/>\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-july-4-2019\/\" \/>\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, July 4, 2019 - NCRI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, July 4, 2019Reaction to Iranian Regime&#039;s Announcement That It Will Increase Uranium Enrichment on Sunday The Iranian Regime\u2019s President Hassan Rouhani declared on Wednesday that from this coming Sunday the regime will increase its enrichment of uranium to any amount it wants and will recommence activities at its heavy water reactor in Arak.His remarks were broadcast by state television.Commenting on Rouhani\u2019s announcement, the Chair of the NCRI Foreign Affairs Committee, Mohammad Mohaddessin, said: \u201cThe events of recent days and Rouhani\u2019s announcement today show clearly that the mullahs\u2019 regime never abandoned its nuclear weapons projects and it is trying to find an opportunity to pursue it once again. As the Iranian Resistance has repeatedly stated, the regime must not be allowed to carry out any uranium enrichment and its nuclear projects must be entirely dismantled.\u201dFrance Says Iran Regime Will Gain Nothing by Breaking With Nuclear DealIran\u2019s regime will gain nothing by departing from the terms of its nuclear agreement, the French foreign ministry said on Wednesday, responding to Tehran&#039;s announcement that it will boost the enrichment level of its uranium.&quot;Iran will gain nothing by leaving the Vienna accord,&quot; the French Foreign ministry spokesperson told the daily briefing.Trump Warns Iranian Regime to Be \u2018Careful With Threats\u2019US President Donald Trump warned the Iranian regime Wednesday its threats could \u201ccome back to bite\u201d after Tehran vowed to exceed the maximum uranium enrichment level allowed by the nuclear deal.Trump tweeted: \u201cIran has just issued a New Warning. Rouhani says that they will Enrich Uranium to \u2018any amount we want\u2019 if there is no new Nuclear Deal\u201d. \u201cBe careful with the threats, Iran. They can come back to bite you like nobody has been bitten before!\u201dIran State TV Blasted Over Report on Secret Oil SalesIranian regime officials slammed the country\u2019s state television on Wednesday for airing a program on oil sales to China that contravene US sanctions, saying the report went \u201cagainst national interests.\u201dThe \u201cHello, Good Morning\u201d talk show featured on Tuesday a program on the Salina, an Iranian-flagged tanker under US sanctions that reportedly had delivered 1 million barrels of crude oil to China\u2019s Jinzhou port in late June.\u201cThis shows that sanctions are ineffective and Iran\u2019s path to sell its oil is not blocked,\u201d the program\u2019s host said, showing what he claimed were satellite photos of the tanker berthed at the Chinese port.The state broadcaster immediately came under fire from local media who called the program \u201csuspicious\u201d, with officials weighing in the next day.\u201cThis will hurt (Iran\u2019s) national interests,\u201d the regime\u2019s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said.Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said that the program \u201chas undone what the ministry set out to do.\u201dHe had said previously that Iran was keeping up oil sales through \u201cunconventional\u201d means kept secret to skirt US sanctions.Supporters of a Free Iran to March in Berlin on SaturdayThousands of Iranians will march in Berlin on Saturday in support of an end to the religious dictatorship ruling Iran. Supporters of the Iranian Resistance will urge the European Union to impose sanctions on the mullahs&#039; regime and to support the democratic aspirations of the Iranian people.Supporters of the main democratic opposition People&#039;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran will rally at the Brandenburg Gate in the German capital in the third of a series of major &#039;Free Iran&#039; marches going on in Europe and the United States.Prominent German dignitaries and lawmakers are scheduled to speak at Saturday&#039;s rally.Two other marches were held in Brussels and Washington by MEK supporters in solidarity with the anti-regime protests that have rocked Iran since December 2017.Iran Attorney General Reacts to Police Brutality Video, Vows to Continue CrackdownThe Iranian Regime\u2019s Attorney General implicitly reacted to a police brutality video published on social media showing an ununiformed police agent brutally arresting a young woman for so-called \u201cimmoral\u201d conduct in Tehran. \u201cThe Judiciary supports a powerful police force\u201d, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri told journalists, adding that \u201cthe Judiciary does not pay any attention to these kinds of propaganda and hype.\u201dHe encouraged the police and security forces to continue dealing with what he called \u201csocial abnormalities\u201d.\u201cWe expect police to deal with abnormalities of any kind,\u201d Montazeri said adding that the Judiciary had a duty to give permits to the police wherever necessary.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-july-4-2019\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"NCRI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-07-05T09:15:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-01-24T17:42:05+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-july-4-2019\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-july-4-2019\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Iran news in brief, July 4, 2019\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-07-05T09:15:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-24T17:42:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-july-4-2019\\\/\"},\"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-july-4-2019\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-july-4-2019\\\/\",\"name\":\"Iran news in brief, July 4, 2019 - NCRI\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2019-07-05T09:15:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-24T17:42:05+00:00\",\"description\":\"Iran news in brief, July 4, 2019Reaction to Iranian Regime's Announcement That It Will Increase Uranium Enrichment on Sunday The Iranian Regime\u2019s President Hassan Rouhani declared on Wednesday that from this coming Sunday the regime will increase its enrichment of uranium to any amount it wants and will recommence activities at its heavy water reactor in Arak.His remarks were broadcast by state television.Commenting on Rouhani\u2019s announcement, the Chair of the NCRI Foreign Affairs Committee, Mohammad Mohaddessin, said: \u201cThe events of recent days and Rouhani\u2019s announcement today show clearly that the mullahs\u2019 regime never abandoned its nuclear weapons projects and it is trying to find an opportunity to pursue it once again. 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As the Iranian Resistance has repeatedly stated, the regime must not be allowed to carry out any uranium enrichment and its nuclear projects must be entirely dismantled.\u201dFrance Says Iran Regime Will Gain Nothing by Breaking With Nuclear DealIran\u2019s regime will gain nothing by departing from the terms of its nuclear agreement, the French foreign ministry said on Wednesday, responding to Tehran's announcement that it will boost the enrichment level of its uranium.\"Iran will gain nothing by leaving the Vienna accord,\" the French Foreign ministry spokesperson told the daily briefing.Trump Warns Iranian Regime to Be \u2018Careful With Threats\u2019US President Donald Trump warned the Iranian regime Wednesday its threats could \u201ccome back to bite\u201d after Tehran vowed to exceed the maximum uranium enrichment level allowed by the nuclear deal.Trump tweeted: \u201cIran has just issued a New Warning. Rouhani says that they will Enrich Uranium to \u2018any amount we want\u2019 if there is no new Nuclear Deal\u201d. \u201cBe careful with the threats, Iran. They can come back to bite you like nobody has been bitten before!\u201dIran State TV Blasted Over Report on Secret Oil SalesIranian regime officials slammed the country\u2019s state television on Wednesday for airing a program on oil sales to China that contravene US sanctions, saying the report went \u201cagainst national interests.\u201dThe \u201cHello, Good Morning\u201d talk show featured on Tuesday a program on the Salina, an Iranian-flagged tanker under US sanctions that reportedly had delivered 1 million barrels of crude oil to China\u2019s Jinzhou port in late June.\u201cThis shows that sanctions are ineffective and Iran\u2019s path to sell its oil is not blocked,\u201d the program\u2019s host said, showing what he claimed were satellite photos of the tanker berthed at the Chinese port.The state broadcaster immediately came under fire from local media who called the program \u201csuspicious\u201d, with officials weighing in the next day.\u201cThis will hurt (Iran\u2019s) national interests,\u201d the regime\u2019s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said.Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said that the program \u201chas undone what the ministry set out to do.\u201dHe had said previously that Iran was keeping up oil sales through \u201cunconventional\u201d means kept secret to skirt US sanctions.Supporters of a Free Iran to March in Berlin on SaturdayThousands of Iranians will march in Berlin on Saturday in support of an end to the religious dictatorship ruling Iran. Supporters of the Iranian Resistance will urge the European Union to impose sanctions on the mullahs' regime and to support the democratic aspirations of the Iranian people.Supporters of the main democratic opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran will rally at the Brandenburg Gate in the German capital in the third of a series of major 'Free Iran' marches going on in Europe and the United States.Prominent German dignitaries and lawmakers are scheduled to speak at Saturday's rally.Two other marches were held in Brussels and Washington by MEK supporters in solidarity with the anti-regime protests that have rocked Iran since December 2017.Iran Attorney General Reacts to Police Brutality Video, Vows to Continue CrackdownThe Iranian Regime\u2019s Attorney General implicitly reacted to a police brutality video published on social media showing an ununiformed police agent brutally arresting a young woman for so-called \u201cimmoral\u201d conduct in Tehran. \u201cThe Judiciary supports a powerful police force\u201d, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri told journalists, adding that \u201cthe Judiciary does not pay any attention to these kinds of propaganda and hype.\u201dHe encouraged the police and security forces to continue dealing with what he called \u201csocial abnormalities\u201d.\u201cWe expect police to deal with abnormalities of any kind,\u201d Montazeri said adding that the Judiciary had a duty to give permits to the police wherever necessary.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-july-4-2019\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Iran news in brief, July 4, 2019 - NCRI","og_description":"Iran news in brief, July 4, 2019Reaction to Iranian Regime's Announcement That It Will Increase Uranium Enrichment on Sunday The Iranian Regime\u2019s President Hassan Rouhani declared on Wednesday that from this coming Sunday the regime will increase its enrichment of uranium to any amount it wants and will recommence activities at its heavy water reactor in Arak.His remarks were broadcast by state television.Commenting on Rouhani\u2019s announcement, the Chair of the NCRI Foreign Affairs Committee, Mohammad Mohaddessin, said: \u201cThe events of recent days and Rouhani\u2019s announcement today show clearly that the mullahs\u2019 regime never abandoned its nuclear weapons projects and it is trying to find an opportunity to pursue it once again. As the Iranian Resistance has repeatedly stated, the regime must not be allowed to carry out any uranium enrichment and its nuclear projects must be entirely dismantled.\u201dFrance Says Iran Regime Will Gain Nothing by Breaking With Nuclear DealIran\u2019s regime will gain nothing by departing from the terms of its nuclear agreement, the French foreign ministry said on Wednesday, responding to Tehran's announcement that it will boost the enrichment level of its uranium.\"Iran will gain nothing by leaving the Vienna accord,\" the French Foreign ministry spokesperson told the daily briefing.Trump Warns Iranian Regime to Be \u2018Careful With Threats\u2019US President Donald Trump warned the Iranian regime Wednesday its threats could \u201ccome back to bite\u201d after Tehran vowed to exceed the maximum uranium enrichment level allowed by the nuclear deal.Trump tweeted: \u201cIran has just issued a New Warning. Rouhani says that they will Enrich Uranium to \u2018any amount we want\u2019 if there is no new Nuclear Deal\u201d. \u201cBe careful with the threats, Iran. They can come back to bite you like nobody has been bitten before!\u201dIran State TV Blasted Over Report on Secret Oil SalesIranian regime officials slammed the country\u2019s state television on Wednesday for airing a program on oil sales to China that contravene US sanctions, saying the report went \u201cagainst national interests.\u201dThe \u201cHello, Good Morning\u201d talk show featured on Tuesday a program on the Salina, an Iranian-flagged tanker under US sanctions that reportedly had delivered 1 million barrels of crude oil to China\u2019s Jinzhou port in late June.\u201cThis shows that sanctions are ineffective and Iran\u2019s path to sell its oil is not blocked,\u201d the program\u2019s host said, showing what he claimed were satellite photos of the tanker berthed at the Chinese port.The state broadcaster immediately came under fire from local media who called the program \u201csuspicious\u201d, with officials weighing in the next day.\u201cThis will hurt (Iran\u2019s) national interests,\u201d the regime\u2019s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said.Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said that the program \u201chas undone what the ministry set out to do.\u201dHe had said previously that Iran was keeping up oil sales through \u201cunconventional\u201d means kept secret to skirt US sanctions.Supporters of a Free Iran to March in Berlin on SaturdayThousands of Iranians will march in Berlin on Saturday in support of an end to the religious dictatorship ruling Iran. Supporters of the Iranian Resistance will urge the European Union to impose sanctions on the mullahs' regime and to support the democratic aspirations of the Iranian people.Supporters of the main democratic opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran will rally at the Brandenburg Gate in the German capital in the third of a series of major 'Free Iran' marches going on in Europe and the United States.Prominent German dignitaries and lawmakers are scheduled to speak at Saturday's rally.Two other marches were held in Brussels and Washington by MEK supporters in solidarity with the anti-regime protests that have rocked Iran since December 2017.Iran Attorney General Reacts to Police Brutality Video, Vows to Continue CrackdownThe Iranian Regime\u2019s Attorney General implicitly reacted to a police brutality video published on social media showing an ununiformed police agent brutally arresting a young woman for so-called \u201cimmoral\u201d conduct in Tehran. \u201cThe Judiciary supports a powerful police force\u201d, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri told journalists, adding that \u201cthe Judiciary does not pay any attention to these kinds of propaganda and hype.\u201dHe encouraged the police and security forces to continue dealing with what he called \u201csocial abnormalities\u201d.\u201cWe expect police to deal with abnormalities of any kind,\u201d Montazeri said adding that the Judiciary had a duty to give permits to the police wherever necessary.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-july-4-2019\/","og_site_name":"NCRI","article_published_time":"2019-07-05T09:15:17+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-01-24T17:42:05+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-july-4-2019\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-july-4-2019\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Iran news in brief, July 4, 2019","datePublished":"2019-07-05T09:15:17+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T17:42:05+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-july-4-2019\/"},"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-july-4-2019\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-july-4-2019\/","name":"Iran news in brief, July 4, 2019 - NCRI","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2019-07-05T09:15:17+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T17:42:05+00:00","description":"Iran news in brief, July 4, 2019Reaction to Iranian Regime's Announcement That It Will Increase Uranium Enrichment on Sunday The Iranian Regime\u2019s President Hassan Rouhani declared on Wednesday that from this coming Sunday the regime will increase its enrichment of uranium to any amount it wants and will recommence activities at its heavy water reactor in Arak.His remarks were broadcast by state television.Commenting on Rouhani\u2019s announcement, the Chair of the NCRI Foreign Affairs Committee, Mohammad Mohaddessin, said: \u201cThe events of recent days and Rouhani\u2019s announcement today show clearly that the mullahs\u2019 regime never abandoned its nuclear weapons projects and it is trying to find an opportunity to pursue it once again. As the Iranian Resistance has repeatedly stated, the regime must not be allowed to carry out any uranium enrichment and its nuclear projects must be entirely dismantled.\u201dFrance Says Iran Regime Will Gain Nothing by Breaking With Nuclear DealIran\u2019s regime will gain nothing by departing from the terms of its nuclear agreement, the French foreign ministry said on Wednesday, responding to Tehran's announcement that it will boost the enrichment level of its uranium.\"Iran will gain nothing by leaving the Vienna accord,\" the French Foreign ministry spokesperson told the daily briefing.Trump Warns Iranian Regime to Be \u2018Careful With Threats\u2019US President Donald Trump warned the Iranian regime Wednesday its threats could \u201ccome back to bite\u201d after Tehran vowed to exceed the maximum uranium enrichment level allowed by the nuclear deal.Trump tweeted: \u201cIran has just issued a New Warning. Rouhani says that they will Enrich Uranium to \u2018any amount we want\u2019 if there is no new Nuclear Deal\u201d. \u201cBe careful with the threats, Iran. They can come back to bite you like nobody has been bitten before!\u201dIran State TV Blasted Over Report on Secret Oil SalesIranian regime officials slammed the country\u2019s state television on Wednesday for airing a program on oil sales to China that contravene US sanctions, saying the report went \u201cagainst national interests.\u201dThe \u201cHello, Good Morning\u201d talk show featured on Tuesday a program on the Salina, an Iranian-flagged tanker under US sanctions that reportedly had delivered 1 million barrels of crude oil to China\u2019s Jinzhou port in late June.\u201cThis shows that sanctions are ineffective and Iran\u2019s path to sell its oil is not blocked,\u201d the program\u2019s host said, showing what he claimed were satellite photos of the tanker berthed at the Chinese port.The state broadcaster immediately came under fire from local media who called the program \u201csuspicious\u201d, with officials weighing in the next day.\u201cThis will hurt (Iran\u2019s) national interests,\u201d the regime\u2019s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said.Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said that the program \u201chas undone what the ministry set out to do.\u201dHe had said previously that Iran was keeping up oil sales through \u201cunconventional\u201d means kept secret to skirt US sanctions.Supporters of a Free Iran to March in Berlin on SaturdayThousands of Iranians will march in Berlin on Saturday in support of an end to the religious dictatorship ruling Iran. Supporters of the Iranian Resistance will urge the European Union to impose sanctions on the mullahs' regime and to support the democratic aspirations of the Iranian people.Supporters of the main democratic opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran will rally at the Brandenburg Gate in the German capital in the third of a series of major 'Free Iran' marches going on in Europe and the United States.Prominent German dignitaries and lawmakers are scheduled to speak at Saturday's rally.Two other marches were held in Brussels and Washington by MEK supporters in solidarity with the anti-regime protests that have rocked Iran since December 2017.Iran Attorney General Reacts to Police Brutality Video, Vows to Continue CrackdownThe Iranian Regime\u2019s Attorney General implicitly reacted to a police brutality video published on social media showing an ununiformed police agent brutally arresting a young woman for so-called \u201cimmoral\u201d conduct in Tehran. \u201cThe Judiciary supports a powerful police force\u201d, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri told journalists, adding that \u201cthe Judiciary does not pay any attention to these kinds of propaganda and hype.\u201dHe encouraged the police and security forces to continue dealing with what he called \u201csocial abnormalities\u201d.\u201cWe expect police to deal with abnormalities of any kind,\u201d Montazeri said adding that the Judiciary had a duty to give permits to the police wherever necessary.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-july-4-2019\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-july-4-2019\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-july-4-2019\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Iran news in brief, July 4, 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\/211294","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=211294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}