{"id":253880,"date":"2022-01-06T03:39:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T08:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=253880"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:33:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:33:46","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-january-6-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-january-6-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief \u2013 January 6, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

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THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS<\/h2>\n

UPDATE: 10:00<\/span>\u00a0PM CET<\/span><\/p>\n

Canada, Allies Condemn Iran Snub of Negotiations With Victims\u2019 Families for PS752<\/h3>\n

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OTTAWA — Canada and its allies are accusing Iran of snubbing the families of those killed when its military shot down a passenger jet two years ago by refusing to negotiate a settlement. The joint condemnation Thursday by Canada, Britain, Sweden, and Ukraine comes after Iran ignored a Wednesday deadline by the coalition of countries to negotiate a settlement for the Jan. 8, 2020 disaster that saw Iran’s Revolutionary Guard shoot down Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 4:30<\/span>\u00a0PM CET<\/span><\/p>\n

Dual National Iranians Are Being Interrogated at Tehran’s Airport<\/h3>\n

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According to the state-run website Ruydad 24, Iranian flight passengers at the international Khomeini Airport in Tehran who fly in from Europe were interrogated or forced to provide personal information about themselves.<\/p>\n

An Iranian traveler who is living in the Netherlands said that right after checking his passport and stamping, a person with a police radio led him and his wife to a room near the passport control and asked them to fill out a form, requiring details about themselves.<\/p>\n

The Iranian citizen said: “There were about 10 other passengers who were filling in such documents in that room.” A dual-national Iranian living in Germany also reported that questions were apparently only asked from dual nationals.<\/p>\n

However, in its report, the website concluded in its research that dual nationals or refugees were not the only targets of these inquiries and that people with citizenship in some countries were also questioned.<\/p>\n

Interrogation of Iranians living in the West upon their arrival in the country is reported while state officials like president Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, had vowed that Iranians’ return to the country would be smooth and would not require coordination with security officials.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 3:30<\/span>\u00a0PM CET<\/span><\/p>\n

State-run Daily Admits to Systemic Failure of Regime’s Crisis Management<\/h3>\n

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State-run newspaper Aftabe Yazd wrote on Wednesday: “The people of the south of the country, who had a hard time supplying their agricultural and drinking water until last week, are now coping with extensive floods in the past two days. It’s very interesting that the officials are surprised as usual and they are now dealing with a new crisis!”<\/p>\n

The daily added: “It seems like the country’s crisis management headquarters has become used to crises in recent years, and in critical moments, instead of managing the crisis, this body is taken by surprise and loses control. It does not matter if the government is a reformist or conservative one. The process of being surprised by the Crisis Management Task Force is repeated every year, and as a result, there is excessive harm to the people.”<\/p>\n

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MP Warns of Iran’s Economic Sorry State<\/h3>\n

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“The Statistics Center has declared a poverty line of 12 million, while many poor sections of the society feed their families with a subsidy of 45,000 Tomans and a daily wage,” Ali Rezaei, a member of the Iranian regime’s parliament told state-run Shafaqna website. “The weaker class of society has disappeared and now the pressure is on the middle class and even this one is on the verge of failure.”<\/p>\n

He added: “The facts must be told to the people and a disciplinary budget will not solve people’s problems because the people expect their production, employment, and livelihood to improve and any budget that does not help improve the people’s livelihood is worth nothing.”<\/p>\n

Rezaei, who is a member of the Iranian regime parliament’s Economic Commission that supposed to evaluate the administration’s budget for the next year, concluded: “Iran is not a weak country; We have a lot of gold, oil, and mines, so the country should not be run like this. But unfortunately, corruption, fraud, and discrimination are prevailing in the country… We’re hearing people’s bones are breaking under pressure and we’re not paying any attention.”<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 9:30<\/strong> AM CET<\/strong><\/p>\n

Floods, Drought, and the Mullahs\u2019 Rule<\/h3>\n
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Floods continue to damage dozens of cities across Iran<\/div><\/div>
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