{"id":211307,"date":"2019-07-21T08:08:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T08:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/211307-iran-news-in-brief-july-18-2019"},"modified":"2020-01-24T17:41:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:41:26","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-july-18-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-july-18-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran news in brief, July 18, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, July 18, 2019\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_a00Mk38zYuA\" 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%2Fa00Mk38zYuA%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a00Mk38zYuA\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT3M43S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2019-07-18T10:07:07Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_a00Mk38zYuA\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Fa00Mk38zYuA%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, July 18, 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\/a00Mk38zYuA\" 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%2Fa00Mk38zYuA%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, July 18, 2019\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, July 18, 2019 UK Extremely Concerned About Jailed British-Iranian Aid Worker Britain is extremely concerned about the welfare of the jailed British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and wants to see her released, a spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, has been transferred from an Iranian prison to a hospital psychiatric ward, the campaign group seeking to free her said earlier on Wednesday. She was arrested in April 2016 at a Tehran airport as she headed back to Britain with her daughter after a family visit and was sentenced to five years in jail after being convicted of plotting to overthrow Iran&#039;s clerical establishment. Her family and the Foundation, a charity organisation that operates independently of Thomson Reuters and Reuters News, deny the charge. Iranian Regime Sentences Teenager to 100 Lashes The Iranian Regime\u2019s Judiciary sentenced a 17-year-old boy to 100 lashes despite a civil suit against him being retracted. The 7th Branch of the Tehran Criminal court sentenced Ramin to 100 lashes on July 15. According to ROKNA, Ramin said he had not carried out the crime attribute to him and his accusers had retracted their complaint against him. Despite this, the judges sentenced him to lashes. Iran Executes Ten Including a Woman The Iranian authorities have sent ten prisoners to the gallows during the past few days, in the cities of Mahshahr, Nowshahr, Urmia, and Khandab. Two of the victims were hanged in public. A woman was also among those executed. Iran is the world\u2019s top record holder in per capita executions. More than 3,600 people have been executed in Iran since Rouhani took office in 2013. UN human rights bodies have condemned the Iranian regime on 65 occasions for its gross human rights violations. Three Iranian Nationals Charged With Exporting Carbon Fiber From US to Iran Three Iranian nationals have been charged with illegally smuggling carbon fiber to Iran, a crucial component to make a nuclear bomb, announced the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday. Behzad Pourghannad was apprehended in Germany in May 2017 on the charges and was extradited to the United States on Monday. The following day, he made his initial court appearance in a federal court in White Plains, N.Y., before U.S. Magistrate Judge Judith McCarthy. The other two conspirators, Ali Reza Shokri and Farzin Faridmanesh, remain at large. Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said: \u201cCarbon fiber has many aerospace and defense applications, and is strictly controlled to ensure that it doesn\u2019t fall into the wrong hands. Pourghannad and his co-defendants allegedly went to great lengths to circumvent these controls and the United States\u2019 export laws.\u201d Berman added: \u201cTogether with our law-enforcement partners, we will continue to protect our nation\u2019s assets and protect our national security.\u201d\"><\/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 18, 2019UK Extremely Concerned About Jailed British-Iranian Aid WorkerBritain is extremely concerned about the welfare of the jailed British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and wants [&#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":["post-211307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-iran-news-in-brief","tag-save"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Iran news in brief, July 18, 2019 - NCRI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, July 18, 2019UK Extremely Concerned About Jailed British-Iranian Aid WorkerBritain is extremely concerned about the welfare of the jailed British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and wants to see her released, a spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, has been transferred from an Iranian prison to a hospital psychiatric ward, the campaign group seeking to free her said earlier on Wednesday.She was arrested in April 2016 at a Tehran airport as she headed back to Britain with her daughter after a family visit and was sentenced to five years in jail after being convicted of plotting to overthrow Iran&#039;s clerical establishment.Her family and the Foundation, a charity organisation that operates independently of Thomson Reuters and Reuters News, deny the charge.Iranian Regime Sentences Teenager to 100 LashesThe Iranian Regime\u2019s Judiciary sentenced a 17-year-old boy to 100 lashes despite a civil suit against him being retracted.The 7th Branch of the Tehran Criminal court sentenced Ramin to 100 lashes on July 15. According to ROKNA, Ramin said he had not carried out the crime attribute to him and his accusers had retracted their complaint against him.Despite this, the judges sentenced him to lashes.Iran Executes Ten Including a WomanThe Iranian authorities have sent ten prisoners to the gallows during the past few days, in the cities of Mahshahr, Nowshahr, Urmia, and Khandab. Two of the victims were hanged in public.A woman was also among those executed.Iran is the world\u2019s top record holder in per capita executions. More than 3,600 people have been executed in Iran since Rouhani took office in 2013.UN human rights bodies have condemned the Iranian regime on 65 occasions for its gross human rights violations.Three Iranian Nationals Charged With Exporting Carbon Fiber From US to IranThree Iranian nationals have been charged with illegally smuggling carbon fiber to Iran, a crucial component to make a nuclear bomb, announced the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday.Behzad Pourghannad was apprehended in Germany in May 2017 on the charges and was extradited to the United States on Monday. The following day, he made his initial court appearance in a federal court in White Plains, N.Y., before U.S. Magistrate Judge Judith McCarthy.The other two conspirators, Ali Reza Shokri and Farzin Faridmanesh, remain at large.Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said: \u201cCarbon fiber has many aerospace and defense applications, and is strictly controlled to ensure that it doesn\u2019t fall into the wrong hands. 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Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, has been transferred from an Iranian prison to a hospital psychiatric ward, the campaign group seeking to free her said earlier on Wednesday.She was arrested in April 2016 at a Tehran airport as she headed back to Britain with her daughter after a family visit and was sentenced to five years in jail after being convicted of plotting to overthrow Iran&#039;s clerical establishment.Her family and the Foundation, a charity organisation that operates independently of Thomson Reuters and Reuters News, deny the charge.Iranian Regime Sentences Teenager to 100 LashesThe Iranian Regime\u2019s Judiciary sentenced a 17-year-old boy to 100 lashes despite a civil suit against him being retracted.The 7th Branch of the Tehran Criminal court sentenced Ramin to 100 lashes on July 15. According to ROKNA, Ramin said he had not carried out the crime attribute to him and his accusers had retracted their complaint against him.Despite this, the judges sentenced him to lashes.Iran Executes Ten Including a WomanThe Iranian authorities have sent ten prisoners to the gallows during the past few days, in the cities of Mahshahr, Nowshahr, Urmia, and Khandab. Two of the victims were hanged in public.A woman was also among those executed.Iran is the world\u2019s top record holder in per capita executions. 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Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said: \u201cCarbon fiber has many aerospace and defense applications, and is strictly controlled to ensure that it doesn\u2019t fall into the wrong hands. Pourghannad and his co-defendants allegedly went to great lengths to circumvent these controls and the United States\u2019 export laws.\u201dBerman added: \u201cTogether with our law-enforcement partners, we will continue to protect our nation\u2019s assets and protect our national security.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-july-18-2019\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"NCRI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-07-21T08:08:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-01-24T17:41:26+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-18-2019\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-july-18-2019\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Iran news in brief, July 18, 2019\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-07-21T08:08:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-24T17:41:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-july-18-2019\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":16,\"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-18-2019\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/multimedia\\\/iran-news-in-brief\\\/iran-news-in-brief-july-18-2019\\\/\",\"name\":\"Iran news in brief, July 18, 2019 - NCRI\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ncr-iran.org\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2019-07-21T08:08:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-24T17:41:26+00:00\",\"description\":\"Iran news in brief, July 18, 2019UK Extremely Concerned About Jailed British-Iranian Aid WorkerBritain is extremely concerned about the welfare of the jailed British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and wants to see her released, a spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday. 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Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said: \u201cCarbon fiber has many aerospace and defense applications, and is strictly controlled to ensure that it doesn\u2019t fall into the wrong hands. 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Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, has been transferred from an Iranian prison to a hospital psychiatric ward, the campaign group seeking to free her said earlier on Wednesday.She was arrested in April 2016 at a Tehran airport as she headed back to Britain with her daughter after a family visit and was sentenced to five years in jail after being convicted of plotting to overthrow Iran's clerical establishment.Her family and the Foundation, a charity organisation that operates independently of Thomson Reuters and Reuters News, deny the charge.Iranian Regime Sentences Teenager to 100 LashesThe Iranian Regime\u2019s Judiciary sentenced a 17-year-old boy to 100 lashes despite a civil suit against him being retracted.The 7th Branch of the Tehran Criminal court sentenced Ramin to 100 lashes on July 15. According to ROKNA, Ramin said he had not carried out the crime attribute to him and his accusers had retracted their complaint against him.Despite this, the judges sentenced him to lashes.Iran Executes Ten Including a WomanThe Iranian authorities have sent ten prisoners to the gallows during the past few days, in the cities of Mahshahr, Nowshahr, Urmia, and Khandab. Two of the victims were hanged in public.A woman was also among those executed.Iran is the world\u2019s top record holder in per capita executions. More than 3,600 people have been executed in Iran since Rouhani took office in 2013.UN human rights bodies have condemned the Iranian regime on 65 occasions for its gross human rights violations.Three Iranian Nationals Charged With Exporting Carbon Fiber From US to IranThree Iranian nationals have been charged with illegally smuggling carbon fiber to Iran, a crucial component to make a nuclear bomb, announced the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday.Behzad Pourghannad was apprehended in Germany in May 2017 on the charges and was extradited to the United States on Monday. The following day, he made his initial court appearance in a federal court in White Plains, N.Y., before U.S. Magistrate Judge Judith McCarthy.The other two conspirators, Ali Reza Shokri and Farzin Faridmanesh, remain at large.Geoffrey S. 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