{"id":257343,"date":"2022-03-31T12:32:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T11:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=257343"},"modified":"2023-01-31T12:55:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T11:55:15","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-march-31-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-march-31-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief \u2013 March 31, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Senior Congress Members Ask US Administration To Stop Engaging With a Barbaric Regime<\/h3>\n
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Eighteen senior Republicans in the United States Congress wrote a letter to the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, demanding that the US should not continue to negotiate with a barbaric regime that rules Iran.<\/p>\n

The Congress members wrote: “The reports of ongoing negotiations with Iran raise serious concerns about why the Administration is willing to engage and provide U.S. taxpayer dollars to a country adverse to America\u2019s interest. Iran is a state sponsor of terror, and once in the possession of a nuclear capability, could weaponize it against our nation and our allies.”<\/p>\n

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U.N., U.S. Press for Broader Yemen Truce After Unilateral Moves<\/h3>\n

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RIYADH, March 30 (Reuters) – United Nations and the United States envoys on Wednesday welcomed unilateral truce moves by Yemen’s warring sides as encouraging steps while stressing the need for a more comprehensive ceasefire that would help alleviate a dire humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n

The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Houthis had said it would temporarily halt military operations from Wednesday after the Iran-aligned group this week declared a three-day cessation of cross-border attacks and ground offensives in Yemen.<\/p>\n

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FIFA Should Bar Iran From 2022 World Cup Over Its Ban on Female Spectators<\/h3>\n

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T<\/span>he Islamic Republic of Iran has had enough chances. It must be stripped of its right to attend soccer’s 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n

Blatantly rejecting FIFA requirements to the contrary, Iran blocked ticket-holding female supporters from attending its World Cup qualifying match against Lebanon on Tuesday. Iran won that game 2-0, thus securing a spot in the World Cup in November. But the scenes in Tehran testify to the intrinsic immorality of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s regime. As many\u00a0as 2,000<\/a>\u00a0female ticket holders attempting to access the stadium instead found themselves tear-gassed. In a telling act of utter mathematical incontinence, the Iranian football authority\u00a0claimed<\/a>\u00a0that only nine, rather than 2,000, women had tickets for the game.<\/p>\n

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Top House Republicans Sound Alarm Over Biden\u2019s Attempt To Revive Flawed Iran Nuclear Deal<\/h3>\n

\"usa-committee-oversight-reform-logo\"WASHINGTON \u2014 House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Subcommittee on National Security Ranking Member Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.), Representative Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), and Oversight Republicans today raised concerns over reports indicating the Biden Administration\u00a0is working to revive the flawed Obama-era Iran deal and provide the regime even more leniency to the detriment of American interests. In a letter to U.S. Department of State Secretary Antony Blinken, the Republican lawmakers request a briefing about the Biden Administration\u2019s new nuclear negotiations with Iran.<\/p>\n

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Barring Women From Entering Stadiums, Attacking Them With Pepper Spray<\/h3>\n

The Women\u2019s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) strongly condemns the mullahs\u2019 regime for barring women and girls from entering the Imam Reza Stadium in Mashhad and attacking them with pepper spray. This is another manifestation of the brutality of the ruling medieval and misogynistic tyranny that considers women second-class citizens, deprives them of their basic political, social, and economic rights, and has tortured or executed tens of thousands of women political prisoners.<\/p>\n

On the evening of Tuesday, March 29, many women and girls in Mashhad who had bought tickets to attend a soccer match were prevented from entering the stadium. They gathered outside the stadium to protest but were attacked by the State Security Force (SSF) who used pepper spray against them.<\/p>\n

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Amnesty International Warns About Continued Human Rights Abuses in Iran<\/h3>\n
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