{"id":257567,"date":"2022-04-07T09:40:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T08:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=257567"},"modified":"2023-02-03T18:46:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T17:46:25","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-april-7-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-april-7-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief \u2013 April 7, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A market in Mashhad, Khorasan Razavi Province, northeast Iran<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

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

Calls for Regime Change in Neishabour, Northeast Iran<\/h3>\n

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Today, Thursday, April 7, at 2:00 PM local time, passersby and bystanders in Tarrehbar Bazaar, the entrance to Khatam Al-Nabiin Street in Neishabour, Khorasan Razavi heard slogans of regime change: “Down with Khamenei, viva Rajavi”\u00a0 “We do not want a king, nor a cleric, damned be both of them”, “Down with Khamenei, Raisi, damned be Khomeini”!<\/p>\n

Further reports and footage will be shared upon receipt.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 8:00 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Republicans and Democrats See the Iran Deal for What It Is<\/h3>\n

\"national-review-logo\"Though President Biden promised a return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the Iran nuclear deal that currently sits on the table is weaker and more dangerous. Republicans, who fought against Obama\u2019s JCPOA, are predictably calling for an end to negotiations. Earlier today, Republicans from the House Foreign Affairs Committee hosted a press conference to denounce Biden\u2019s Iran deal.<\/p>\n

Congressman\u00a0Andy Barr (R., Ky.) said Trump\u2019s \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d strategy was working, and Biden\u2019s current attempt amounts to a \u201cflawed deal\u201d that cannot go forward. To Barr and his colleagues, the JCPOA-minus is \u201cflawed in process, flawed in substance, and flawed in verification protocols,\u201d\u00a0according to Barr.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Top U.S. General Does Not Support Removing Iran\u2019s Quds Force From Terrorism List<\/h3>\n

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WASHINGTON, April 7 (Reuters) – The top U.S. general said on Thursday that he does not support removing Iran’s Quds Force, an arm of its Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), from a list of foreign terrorist organizations.<\/p>\n

“I believe the IRGC Quds Force to be a terrorist organization and I do not support them being delisted,” Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee.<\/p>\n

The United States has been considering removing the IRGC from its foreign terrorist organization blacklist in return for Iranian assurances about reining in the elite force.<\/p>\n

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Iran Moves Machines for Making Centrifuge Parts to Natanz -Un Nuclear Watchdog<\/h3>\n

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VIENNA, April 6 (Reuters) – Iran has moved all its machines that make centrifuge parts from its mothballed workshop at Karaj to its sprawling Natanz site just six weeks after it set up another site at Isfahan to make the same parts, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Iran granted International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors access to Karaj in December to re-instal surveillance cameras there after a months-long standoff that followed what Tehran said was Israeli sabotage that destroyed one camera and badly damaged another, prompting Iran to remove all four cameras.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/a><\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 1:30 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Official Admits to Widespread Hatred of Clergy in Iran<\/h3>\n

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Reacting to the stabbing incident<\/a> in Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad that left a clergyman dead and two injured, Ahmad Marvi, Chief of the Astane Quds Razavi<\/a> Foundation said: “If it were not for our military, police, and security forces that work day and night, we would have faced similar cases every day or every week or at least once a month.”<\/p>\n

“Last year, we bought more than One trillion rials of equipment only for security purposes,” Marvi added. “We have to do as much as possible to provide security. We have provided the latest technology and there has been no shortage in this regard. This attack was planned by the enemy because two days ago, two Sunni clerics were killed in Gonbad or Gorgan in Golestan province.”<\/p>\n

Following this incident, state media rushed to announce the aggressor was an Afghan and later changed the narrative and told he was a Tajik. Officials at all levels of the regime have condemned the incident, trying to blame it on \u201cforeigners who want to wage a sectarian war in Iran\u201d. But users on Persian language social media are circulating the narrative that the assailant has been a member of the Fatemiyoun Brigades whose sister was wed to an Iraqi militia member by the murdered cleric. Allegedly, the sister was later abused and hurt by her husband and her brother had taken things into his own hands.<\/p>\n

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Liam Fox Calls for Harder Line on Iran Over Houthi Attacks<\/h3>\n

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The UK and its allies should take a harder line on\u00a0Iran<\/a>\u00a0over attacks by its\u00a0Houthi proxies<\/a>\u00a0in the Gulf which should not be forgotten because of the war in\u00a0Ukraine<\/a>, a former British cabinet minister said on a visit to the region.<\/p>\n

Liam Fox, who was in Bahrain with a UK group\u00a0promoting the Abraham Accords<\/a>, said the\u00a0Houthi attack on the UAE<\/a>\u00a0in January did not receive \u201canything like the attention that it should have had\u201d in Britain and the rest of Europe.<\/p>\n

Dr. Fox said world powers would risk financing such attacks if they lift sanctions on Iran under a revival of the nuclear agreement<\/a>\u00a0between Tehran and world powers.<\/p>\n

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Joint Release: 18 Democrats Raise Concerns About Looming Iran Deal<\/h3>\n

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WASHINGTON, D.C.<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 Today, April 6, 2022, eighteen Democratic Members of Congress joined together to raise critical concerns about the looming Iran deal. Reports indicate that the U.S. has reached the last phase of the Vienna negotiations with Iran \u2014 the world\u2019s leading state-sponsor of terror.<\/p>\n

Members of the group of eighteen held a press conference this morning (watch\u00a0<\/i>here<\/i><\/a>).<\/i><\/p>\n

Democratic Members joining together to raise their concerns include Reps. Gottheimer (NJ-5), Luria (VA-2), Norcross (NJ-1), Vargas (CA-51), Phillips (MN-3), Boyle (PA-2), Brown (OH-11), Costa (CA-16), Demings (FL-10), Frankel (FL-21), Golden (ME-02), Gonz\u00e1lez (TX-15), Lee (NV-3), Manning (NC-6), Meng (NY-6), Soto (FL-9), Stevens (MI-11), and Suozzi (NY-3).<\/p>\n

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

Iran\u2019s Hot Potato: The Internet \u201cProtection Bill\u201d<\/h3>\n
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Iran: Parliament approves internet censorship bill<\/div><\/div>
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