{"id":211348,"date":"2019-08-27T19:06:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T19:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/211348-iran-news-in-brief-august-23-2019"},"modified":"2020-01-24T17:41:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:41:08","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-august-23-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-august-23-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran news in brief, August 23, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, August 23, 2019\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_BUyELFfHZLU\" 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%2FBUyELFfHZLU%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BUyELFfHZLU\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT4M49S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2019-08-23T08:49:02Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_BUyELFfHZLU\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FBUyELFfHZLU%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, August 23, 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\/BUyELFfHZLU\" 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%2FBUyELFfHZLU%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, August 23, 2019\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, August 23, 2019 Iran Regime&#039;s Foreign Minister Threatens Iranian Protesters in Stockholm to Death The Iranian Regime\u2019s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif threatened Iranian protesters in Stockholm to death, brazenly boasting that the regime\u2019s agents and operatives would not let them live for a minute and would eat them alive. In an interview with the state-run Press TV on August 21, he railed at Iranian protesters demanding his expulsion from Sweden. \u201cAsk any of those individuals standing outside to attend any meetings with Iranians (i.e. the regime\u2019s Revolutionary Guards) and then see whether they would survive. They would not stay alive for a minute\u2026. They cannot even stay in Iraq because the people of Iraq (meaning the regime\u2019s proxies in that country) will eat them alive.\u201d As such, Zarif revealed his own murderous nature and that of the mullahs\u2019 medieval regime, which has executed 120,000 dissidents on political charges in the past four decades. When the mullahs\u2019 Foreign Minister threatens Iranian protesters to death in Stockholm, one can imagine what is happening in the regime\u2019s prisons and torture chambers and how dissidents and political prisoners are being treated. Swedish Media: Iranians Strongly Protesting Zarif\u2019s Visit Sweden\u2019s Channel 1 TV broadcast a report of supporters of the Iranian opposition PMOI living in Sweden holding a rally protesting the presence of Iranian Regime Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. \u201cDon\u2019t negotiate with murderers,\u201d the protesters were chanting during their demonstration outside the Swedish Foreign Ministry building on Wednesday. The meeting between Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstr\u00f6m and Zarif has come under strong criticism from a variety of perspectives. Following this meeting, Zarif did not attend the press conference and refused to face reporters. In a desperate effort to find relief from an economic crisis that has crippled this regime, Iran\u2019s mullahs have their eyes glued to Europe and Sweden for a solution. Coinciding with Zarif\u2019s meeting at the Swedish Foreign Ministry, dissident protesters were seen chanting do not negotiate with murderers. \u201cWe will never forget this day,\u201d one demonstrator said. Sweden\u2019s Channel 2 TV also reported that while Zarif\u2019s meeting south to find a solution to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal, his meeting with the Swedish Foreign Minister became the target of a wave of criticism. Iranians living in Sweden who protested Zarif\u2019s visit were attacked by police cavalry units equipped with batons. The protesters were holding signs reading, \u201cZarif is like Gobbles,\u201d in a reference to Hitler\u2019s minister. US Will Aggressively Enforce Sanctions Over Iran Tanker The United States will aggressively enforce its sanctions to prevent the private sector from assisting an Iranian oil tanker that is traveling through the Mediterranean and that Washington wants seized, a State Department official said on Thursday. \u201cThe shipping sector is on notice that we will aggressively enforce US sanctions,\u201d the official told Reuters days after warning countries not to allow the tanker to dock. Ship tracking data has shown the ship, Adrian Darya, formerly called Grace 1, last heading toward Greece, although Greece\u2019s prime minister said it was not heading to his country. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, warned that the United States would act against anyone who directly or indirectly helped the tanker. \u201cAll parties in the shipping sector should conduct appropriate due diligence to ensure that they are not doing business with nor facilitating business for, directly or indirectly, sanctioned parties or with sanctioned cargo,\u201d the official warned. Family of Murdered Iranian Political Prisoner Demand Justice The family of Alireza Shir Mohammad Ali, an Iraninan political prisoner murdered by the Iranian regime\u2019s agents in the Greater Tehran Prison protested to a recent ruling by an Iranian court and demanded all the perpetrators of Alireza&#039;s murder to be put on trial. Shir Mohammad Ali was arrested in July 2018 on charges of insulting the leaders of the mullahs\u2019 regime and was sentenced to eight years in prison. After sentencing, he was transferred from Evin prison to Greater Tehran. In June, Shir Mohammad Ali stabbed to death by two prisoners who were following the orders of prison authorities. The court set sentences for the two prisoners who directly carried out the murder of Shir Mohammad Ali, but made no decisions on the role of the authorities who orchestrated the murder.\"><\/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, August 23, 2019Iran Regime&#8217;s Foreign Minister Threatens Iranian Protesters in Stockholm to Death The Iranian Regime&rsquo;s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif threatened Iranian protesters in Stockholm to [&#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-211348","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 v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Iran news in brief, August 23, 2019 - NCRI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, August 23, 2019Iran Regime&#039;s Foreign Minister Threatens Iranian Protesters in Stockholm to Death The Iranian Regime\u2019s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif threatened Iranian protesters in Stockholm to death, brazenly boasting that the regime\u2019s agents and operatives would not let them live for a minute and would eat them alive.In an interview with the state-run Press TV on August 21, he railed at Iranian protesters demanding his expulsion from Sweden. \u201cAsk any of those individuals standing outside to attend any meetings with Iranians (i.e. the regime\u2019s Revolutionary Guards) and then see whether they would survive. 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They cannot even stay in Iraq because the people of Iraq (meaning the regime\u2019s proxies in that country) will eat them alive.\u201dAs such, Zarif revealed his own murderous nature and that of the mullahs\u2019 medieval regime, which has executed 120,000 dissidents on political charges in the past four decades.When the mullahs\u2019 Foreign Minister threatens Iranian protesters to death in Stockholm, one can imagine what is happening in the regime\u2019s prisons and torture chambers and how dissidents and political prisoners are being treated.Swedish Media: Iranians Strongly Protesting Zarif\u2019s VisitSweden\u2019s Channel 1 TV broadcast a report of supporters of the Iranian opposition PMOI living in Sweden holding a rally protesting the presence of Iranian Regime Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.\u201cDon\u2019t negotiate with murderers,\u201d the protesters were chanting during their demonstration outside the Swedish Foreign Ministry building on Wednesday.The meeting between Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstr\u00f6m and Zarif has come under strong criticism from a variety of perspectives. Following this meeting, Zarif did not attend the press conference and refused to face reporters.In a desperate effort to find relief from an economic crisis that has crippled this regime, Iran\u2019s mullahs have their eyes glued to Europe and Sweden for a solution.Coinciding with Zarif\u2019s meeting at the Swedish Foreign Ministry, dissident protesters were seen chanting do not negotiate with murderers.\u201cWe will never forget this day,\u201d one demonstrator said.Sweden\u2019s Channel 2 TV also reported that while Zarif\u2019s meeting south to find a solution to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal, his meeting with the Swedish Foreign Minister became the target of a wave of criticism.Iranians living in Sweden who protested Zarif\u2019s visit were attacked by police cavalry units equipped with batons. The protesters were holding signs reading, \u201cZarif is like Gobbles,\u201d in a reference to Hitler\u2019s minister.US Will Aggressively Enforce Sanctions Over Iran TankerThe United States will aggressively enforce its sanctions to prevent the private sector from assisting an Iranian oil tanker that is traveling through the Mediterranean and that Washington wants seized, a State Department official said on Thursday.\u201cThe shipping sector is on notice that we will aggressively enforce US sanctions,\u201d the official told Reuters days after warning countries not to allow the tanker to dock.Ship tracking data has shown the ship, Adrian Darya, formerly called Grace 1, last heading toward Greece, although Greece\u2019s prime minister said it was not heading to his country.The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, warned that the United States would act against anyone who directly or indirectly helped the tanker.\u201cAll parties in the shipping sector should conduct appropriate due diligence to ensure that they are not doing business with nor facilitating business for, directly or indirectly, sanctioned parties or with sanctioned cargo,\u201d the official warned.Family of Murdered Iranian Political Prisoner Demand JusticeThe family of Alireza Shir Mohammad Ali, an Iraninan political prisoner murdered by the Iranian regime\u2019s agents in the Greater Tehran Prison protested to a recent ruling by an Iranian court and demanded all the perpetrators of Alireza&#039;s murder to be put on trial.Shir Mohammad Ali was arrested in July 2018 on charges of insulting the leaders of the mullahs\u2019 regime and was sentenced to eight years in prison. 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Following this meeting, Zarif did not attend the press conference and refused to face reporters.In a desperate effort to find relief from an economic crisis that has crippled this regime, Iran\u2019s mullahs have their eyes glued to Europe and Sweden for a solution.Coinciding with Zarif\u2019s meeting at the Swedish Foreign Ministry, dissident protesters were seen chanting do not negotiate with murderers.\u201cWe will never forget this day,\u201d one demonstrator said.Sweden\u2019s Channel 2 TV also reported that while Zarif\u2019s meeting south to find a solution to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal, his meeting with the Swedish Foreign Minister became the target of a wave of criticism.Iranians living in Sweden who protested Zarif\u2019s visit were attacked by police cavalry units equipped with batons. The protesters were holding signs reading, \u201cZarif is like Gobbles,\u201d in a reference to Hitler\u2019s minister.US Will Aggressively Enforce Sanctions Over Iran TankerThe United States will aggressively enforce its sanctions to prevent the private sector from assisting an Iranian oil tanker that is traveling through the Mediterranean and that Washington wants seized, a State Department official said on Thursday.\u201cThe shipping sector is on notice that we will aggressively enforce US sanctions,\u201d the official told Reuters days after warning countries not to allow the tanker to dock.Ship tracking data has shown the ship, Adrian Darya, formerly called Grace 1, last heading toward Greece, although Greece\u2019s prime minister said it was not heading to his country.The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, warned that the United States would act against anyone who directly or indirectly helped the tanker.\u201cAll parties in the shipping sector should conduct appropriate due diligence to ensure that they are not doing business with nor facilitating business for, directly or indirectly, sanctioned parties or with sanctioned cargo,\u201d the official warned.Family of Murdered Iranian Political Prisoner Demand JusticeThe family of Alireza Shir Mohammad Ali, an Iraninan political prisoner murdered by the Iranian regime\u2019s agents in the Greater Tehran Prison protested to a recent ruling by an Iranian court and demanded all the perpetrators of Alireza&#039;s murder to be put on trial.Shir Mohammad Ali was arrested in July 2018 on charges of insulting the leaders of the mullahs\u2019 regime and was sentenced to eight years in prison. 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They would not stay alive for a minute\u2026. They cannot even stay in Iraq because the people of Iraq (meaning the regime\u2019s proxies in that country) will eat them alive.\u201dAs such, Zarif revealed his own murderous nature and that of the mullahs\u2019 medieval regime, which has executed 120,000 dissidents on political charges in the past four decades.When the mullahs\u2019 Foreign Minister threatens Iranian protesters to death in Stockholm, one can imagine what is happening in the regime\u2019s prisons and torture chambers and how dissidents and political prisoners are being treated.Swedish Media: Iranians Strongly Protesting Zarif\u2019s VisitSweden\u2019s Channel 1 TV broadcast a report of supporters of the Iranian opposition PMOI living in Sweden holding a rally protesting the presence of Iranian Regime Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.\u201cDon\u2019t negotiate with murderers,\u201d the protesters were chanting during their demonstration outside the Swedish Foreign Ministry building on Wednesday.The meeting between Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstr\u00f6m and Zarif has come under strong criticism from a variety of perspectives. Following this meeting, Zarif did not attend the press conference and refused to face reporters.In a desperate effort to find relief from an economic crisis that has crippled this regime, Iran\u2019s mullahs have their eyes glued to Europe and Sweden for a solution.Coinciding with Zarif\u2019s meeting at the Swedish Foreign Ministry, dissident protesters were seen chanting do not negotiate with murderers.\u201cWe will never forget this day,\u201d one demonstrator said.Sweden\u2019s Channel 2 TV also reported that while Zarif\u2019s meeting south to find a solution to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal, his meeting with the Swedish Foreign Minister became the target of a wave of criticism.Iranians living in Sweden who protested Zarif\u2019s visit were attacked by police cavalry units equipped with batons. The protesters were holding signs reading, \u201cZarif is like Gobbles,\u201d in a reference to Hitler\u2019s minister.US Will Aggressively Enforce Sanctions Over Iran TankerThe United States will aggressively enforce its sanctions to prevent the private sector from assisting an Iranian oil tanker that is traveling through the Mediterranean and that Washington wants seized, a State Department official said on Thursday.\u201cThe shipping sector is on notice that we will aggressively enforce US sanctions,\u201d the official told Reuters days after warning countries not to allow the tanker to dock.Ship tracking data has shown the ship, Adrian Darya, formerly called Grace 1, last heading toward Greece, although Greece\u2019s prime minister said it was not heading to his country.The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, warned that the United States would act against anyone who directly or indirectly helped the tanker.\u201cAll parties in the shipping sector should conduct appropriate due diligence to ensure that they are not doing business with nor facilitating business for, directly or indirectly, sanctioned parties or with sanctioned cargo,\u201d the official warned.Family of Murdered Iranian Political Prisoner Demand JusticeThe family of Alireza Shir Mohammad Ali, an Iraninan political prisoner murdered by the Iranian regime\u2019s agents in the Greater Tehran Prison protested to a recent ruling by an Iranian court and demanded all the perpetrators of Alireza's murder to be put on trial.Shir Mohammad Ali was arrested in July 2018 on charges of insulting the leaders of the mullahs\u2019 regime and was sentenced to eight years in prison. After sentencing, he was transferred from Evin prison to Greater Tehran. In June, Shir Mohammad Ali stabbed to death by two prisoners who were following the orders of prison authorities.The court set sentences for the two prisoners who directly carried out the murder of Shir Mohammad Ali, but made no decisions on the role of the authorities who orchestrated the murder.","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-august-23-2019\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Iran news in brief, August 23, 2019 - NCRI","og_description":"Iran news in brief, August 23, 2019Iran Regime's Foreign Minister Threatens Iranian Protesters in Stockholm to Death The Iranian Regime\u2019s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif threatened Iranian protesters in Stockholm to death, brazenly boasting that the regime\u2019s agents and operatives would not let them live for a minute and would eat them alive.In an interview with the state-run Press TV on August 21, he railed at Iranian protesters demanding his expulsion from Sweden. \u201cAsk any of those individuals standing outside to attend any meetings with Iranians (i.e. the regime\u2019s Revolutionary Guards) and then see whether they would survive. They would not stay alive for a minute\u2026. They cannot even stay in Iraq because the people of Iraq (meaning the regime\u2019s proxies in that country) will eat them alive.\u201dAs such, Zarif revealed his own murderous nature and that of the mullahs\u2019 medieval regime, which has executed 120,000 dissidents on political charges in the past four decades.When the mullahs\u2019 Foreign Minister threatens Iranian protesters to death in Stockholm, one can imagine what is happening in the regime\u2019s prisons and torture chambers and how dissidents and political prisoners are being treated.Swedish Media: Iranians Strongly Protesting Zarif\u2019s VisitSweden\u2019s Channel 1 TV broadcast a report of supporters of the Iranian opposition PMOI living in Sweden holding a rally protesting the presence of Iranian Regime Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.\u201cDon\u2019t negotiate with murderers,\u201d the protesters were chanting during their demonstration outside the Swedish Foreign Ministry building on Wednesday.The meeting between Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstr\u00f6m and Zarif has come under strong criticism from a variety of perspectives. Following this meeting, Zarif did not attend the press conference and refused to face reporters.In a desperate effort to find relief from an economic crisis that has crippled this regime, Iran\u2019s mullahs have their eyes glued to Europe and Sweden for a solution.Coinciding with Zarif\u2019s meeting at the Swedish Foreign Ministry, dissident protesters were seen chanting do not negotiate with murderers.\u201cWe will never forget this day,\u201d one demonstrator said.Sweden\u2019s Channel 2 TV also reported that while Zarif\u2019s meeting south to find a solution to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal, his meeting with the Swedish Foreign Minister became the target of a wave of criticism.Iranians living in Sweden who protested Zarif\u2019s visit were attacked by police cavalry units equipped with batons. The protesters were holding signs reading, \u201cZarif is like Gobbles,\u201d in a reference to Hitler\u2019s minister.US Will Aggressively Enforce Sanctions Over Iran TankerThe United States will aggressively enforce its sanctions to prevent the private sector from assisting an Iranian oil tanker that is traveling through the Mediterranean and that Washington wants seized, a State Department official said on Thursday.\u201cThe shipping sector is on notice that we will aggressively enforce US sanctions,\u201d the official told Reuters days after warning countries not to allow the tanker to dock.Ship tracking data has shown the ship, Adrian Darya, formerly called Grace 1, last heading toward Greece, although Greece\u2019s prime minister said it was not heading to his country.The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, warned that the United States would act against anyone who directly or indirectly helped the tanker.\u201cAll parties in the shipping sector should conduct appropriate due diligence to ensure that they are not doing business with nor facilitating business for, directly or indirectly, sanctioned parties or with sanctioned cargo,\u201d the official warned.Family of Murdered Iranian Political Prisoner Demand JusticeThe family of Alireza Shir Mohammad Ali, an Iraninan political prisoner murdered by the Iranian regime\u2019s agents in the Greater Tehran Prison protested to a recent ruling by an Iranian court and demanded all the perpetrators of Alireza's murder to be put on trial.Shir Mohammad Ali was arrested in July 2018 on charges of insulting the leaders of the mullahs\u2019 regime and was sentenced to eight years in prison. After sentencing, he was transferred from Evin prison to Greater Tehran. In June, Shir Mohammad Ali stabbed to death by two prisoners who were following the orders of prison authorities.The court set sentences for the two prisoners who directly carried out the murder of Shir Mohammad Ali, but made no decisions on the role of the authorities who orchestrated the murder.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-august-23-2019\/","og_site_name":"NCRI","article_published_time":"2019-08-27T19:06:09+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-01-24T17:41:08+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-august-23-2019\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-august-23-2019\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Iran news in brief, August 23, 2019","datePublished":"2019-08-27T19:06:09+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T17:41:08+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-august-23-2019\/"},"wordCount":12,"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-august-23-2019\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-august-23-2019\/","name":"Iran news in brief, August 23, 2019 - NCRI","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2019-08-27T19:06:09+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-24T17:41:08+00:00","description":"Iran news in brief, August 23, 2019Iran Regime's Foreign Minister Threatens Iranian Protesters in Stockholm to Death The Iranian Regime\u2019s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif threatened Iranian protesters in Stockholm to death, brazenly boasting that the regime\u2019s agents and operatives would not let them live for a minute and would eat them alive.In an interview with the state-run Press TV on August 21, he railed at Iranian protesters demanding his expulsion from Sweden. \u201cAsk any of those individuals standing outside to attend any meetings with Iranians (i.e. the regime\u2019s Revolutionary Guards) and then see whether they would survive. They would not stay alive for a minute\u2026. They cannot even stay in Iraq because the people of Iraq (meaning the regime\u2019s proxies in that country) will eat them alive.\u201dAs such, Zarif revealed his own murderous nature and that of the mullahs\u2019 medieval regime, which has executed 120,000 dissidents on political charges in the past four decades.When the mullahs\u2019 Foreign Minister threatens Iranian protesters to death in Stockholm, one can imagine what is happening in the regime\u2019s prisons and torture chambers and how dissidents and political prisoners are being treated.Swedish Media: Iranians Strongly Protesting Zarif\u2019s VisitSweden\u2019s Channel 1 TV broadcast a report of supporters of the Iranian opposition PMOI living in Sweden holding a rally protesting the presence of Iranian Regime Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.\u201cDon\u2019t negotiate with murderers,\u201d the protesters were chanting during their demonstration outside the Swedish Foreign Ministry building on Wednesday.The meeting between Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstr\u00f6m and Zarif has come under strong criticism from a variety of perspectives. Following this meeting, Zarif did not attend the press conference and refused to face reporters.In a desperate effort to find relief from an economic crisis that has crippled this regime, Iran\u2019s mullahs have their eyes glued to Europe and Sweden for a solution.Coinciding with Zarif\u2019s meeting at the Swedish Foreign Ministry, dissident protesters were seen chanting do not negotiate with murderers.\u201cWe will never forget this day,\u201d one demonstrator said.Sweden\u2019s Channel 2 TV also reported that while Zarif\u2019s meeting south to find a solution to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal, his meeting with the Swedish Foreign Minister became the target of a wave of criticism.Iranians living in Sweden who protested Zarif\u2019s visit were attacked by police cavalry units equipped with batons. The protesters were holding signs reading, \u201cZarif is like Gobbles,\u201d in a reference to Hitler\u2019s minister.US Will Aggressively Enforce Sanctions Over Iran TankerThe United States will aggressively enforce its sanctions to prevent the private sector from assisting an Iranian oil tanker that is traveling through the Mediterranean and that Washington wants seized, a State Department official said on Thursday.\u201cThe shipping sector is on notice that we will aggressively enforce US sanctions,\u201d the official told Reuters days after warning countries not to allow the tanker to dock.Ship tracking data has shown the ship, Adrian Darya, formerly called Grace 1, last heading toward Greece, although Greece\u2019s prime minister said it was not heading to his country.The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, warned that the United States would act against anyone who directly or indirectly helped the tanker.\u201cAll parties in the shipping sector should conduct appropriate due diligence to ensure that they are not doing business with nor facilitating business for, directly or indirectly, sanctioned parties or with sanctioned cargo,\u201d the official warned.Family of Murdered Iranian Political Prisoner Demand JusticeThe family of Alireza Shir Mohammad Ali, an Iraninan political prisoner murdered by the Iranian regime\u2019s agents in the Greater Tehran Prison protested to a recent ruling by an Iranian court and demanded all the perpetrators of Alireza's murder to be put on trial.Shir Mohammad Ali was arrested in July 2018 on charges of insulting the leaders of the mullahs\u2019 regime and was sentenced to eight years in prison. After sentencing, he was transferred from Evin prison to Greater Tehran. In June, Shir Mohammad Ali stabbed to death by two prisoners who were following the orders of prison authorities.The court set sentences for the two prisoners who directly carried out the murder of Shir Mohammad Ali, but made no decisions on the role of the authorities who orchestrated the murder.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-august-23-2019\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-august-23-2019\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/iran-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-august-23-2019\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Iran news in brief, August 23, 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\/211348","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=211348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}