{"id":257314,"date":"2022-03-30T07:31:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T06:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=257314"},"modified":"2023-02-04T12:44:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T11:44:02","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-march-30-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-march-30-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief \u2013 March 30, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

UPDATE: 8:30 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Orders of Banning Women from Entering Stadium Came from Tehran, Local Officials Say<\/h3>\n

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Ali Akbar Hashemi Javaheri, Director General of the Sports and Youth Department in Khorasan Razavi Province said: “As you are aware, in such competitions, the number of spectators and other issues will be coordinated from Tehran. We were executing the decisions that were made in Tehran. We and the Provincial Security Council all listened and carried out the orders that came from Tehran.”<\/p>\n

Earlier, the regime’s Supreme Leader’s representative in Mashhad, Alam al-Hoda, had incited the regime’s mercenaries to suppress women during a speech at the city’s Friday\u00a0 Prayer Sermon.<\/p>\n

“If a group of girls and boys gather on the sidelines of a sports program, if this group of girls and women get excited, clap, whistle, and jump in the air, this becomes vulgarity and vulgarity is a manifestation of sin,” Alam al-Hoda had said.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 5:30 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

300 Iranian Cities Are Dealing with Water Stress<\/h3>\n

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According to the state-run newspaper Etemad on March 30<\/a>, the Iranian regime’s Minister of Energy, Ali Akbar Mehrabian, announced that about 300 cities, including some large cities and provincial capitals, are in a state of water stress.<\/p>\n

Last year, the regime’s former energy minister promised to reduce water tensions in these cities with a budget of 3,200 billion tomans, which seems to have not been resolved.<\/p>\n

According to reports, the last water year in Iran was the least rainy in the last fifty years. The consequences of this problem in large cities are exacerbated by the inefficiency of water supply for urban and agricultural consumption. According to statistics provided in February 2022, the water outflow of dams has decreased by 24%.<\/p>\n

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U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Key Actors in Iran\u2019s Ballistic Missile Program<\/h3>\n

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WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) – The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on an Iran-based man and his network of companies it accused of helping Tehran obtain materials for its ballistic missile program, acting after missile attacks by suspected Iranian-backed proxies on countries in the region.<\/p>\n

In a statement issued as talks on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal have stalled, the U.S. Treasury Department said it acted after Iran’s missile attack on Erbil in Iraq and an “Iranian enabled” Houthi missile attack against a Saudi Aramco facility this month, as well as other missile attacks by Iranian proxies against Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 11:00 AM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iran Lacks 100,000 Nursing Staff, Official Admits<\/h3>\n

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According to Abbas Ebadi, Deputy Minister of Nursing at the Ministry of Health, due to the lack of recruitment of nursing staff in recent years, there is a shortage of at least 100,000 nurses in the country.<\/p>\n

In a meeting with nurses in Dezful city, South Iran, he admitted that measures taken in the field of providing nurses’ livelihoods and helping to eliminate the shortage of manpower in recent years have been insufficient.<\/p>\n

In order to reduce the nurses’ protests, he vowed: “We hope that the Nursing Services Tariff Law, while helping to implement justice in payments, will reduce the complaints of nurses in this area to some extent.”<\/p>\n

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Saudi\u2019s Unilateral Yemen Cease-fire Offer Rejected by Rebels<\/h3>\n

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 The Saudi-led coalition fighting rebels holding Yemen\u2019s capital planned a unilateral cease-fire to begin early Wednesday ahead of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. The Houthis rejected the proposal as \u201cmeaningless\u201d without the coalition fully reopening the country\u2019s ports.<\/p>\n

The coalition planned to begin the unilateral cease-fire at 6 a.m. (0300 GMT) to facilitate negotiations in the kingdom that Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels are boycotting.<\/p>\n

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Saudi Oil Chief Says Energy Security Imperiled by Attacks<\/h3>\n

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 Saudi Arabia\u2019s oil chief said markets are going through a \u201cjittery period\u201d and reiterated Tuesday that the kingdom’s ability to ensure energy security is no longer guaranteed.<\/p>\n

Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said cross-border attacks have put to question \u201cour ability to supply the world with the necessary energy requirements.\u201d The attacks have been carried out by Yemen\u2019s rebel Houthis, who are supported by Iran.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 9:00 AM CET<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iranian Women Attacked for Trying to Watch Football Match<\/h3>\n

On Tuesday, March 29, the Iranian regime prohibited women to attend a football match between Iran and Lebanon in Mashhad, Northeast Iran. According to reports, security forces attacked women and girls who had gathered in front of the city’s football stadium with pepper spray and tried to disperse the crowd. Defying FIFA rules, women in Iran have systematically not been allowed to participate in matches.<\/p>\n

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