{"id":257910,"date":"2022-04-17T10:28:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T09:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=257910"},"modified":"2023-02-04T17:50:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T16:50:19","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-april-17-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-april-17-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief \u2013 April 17, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_257920\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-257920\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"iran-borqhan-savojbolagh-e1650181304500\" class=\"wp-image-257920 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/iran-borqhan-savojbolagh-e1650181304500.jpg\" alt=\"iran-borqhan-savojbolagh-e1650181304500\" width=\"1280\" height=\"812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/iran-borqhan-savojbolagh-e1650181304500.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/iran-borqhan-savojbolagh-e1650181304500-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/iran-borqhan-savojbolagh-e1650181304500-1024x650.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/iran-borqhan-savojbolagh-e1650181304500-768x487.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/iran-borqhan-savojbolagh-e1650181304500-150x95.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/iran-borqhan-savojbolagh-e1650181304500-696x442.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/iran-borqhan-savojbolagh-e1650181304500-1068x678.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-257920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A local market in Borghan village, Markazi Province, Central Iran<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\">THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong style=\"text-align: justify\">UPDATE: 6:00 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\">Iranian Regime&#8217;s Delegation Will Not Attend World Bank Meeting in the US<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Minister-of-Economic-Affairs-and-Finance-Ehsan-Khandouzi\" class=\"size-full wp-image-257938 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Minister-of-Economic-Affairs-and-Finance-Ehsan-Khandouzi.jpg\" alt=\"Minister-of-Economic-Affairs-and-Finance-Ehsan-Khandouzi\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Minister-of-Economic-Affairs-and-Finance-Ehsan-Khandouzi.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Minister-of-Economic-Affairs-and-Finance-Ehsan-Khandouzi-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Iranian regime\u2019s the Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance, Ehsan Khandouzi will not attend the World Bank meeting due to the United States&#8217; refusal to issue his travel visa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">According to the state-run ISNA news agency on Sunday, April 17, &#8220;due to the US government&#8217;s delay&#8221; in issuing visas for the regime&#8217;s economic delegation to attend the World Bank spring meeting, the Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance, Ehsan Khandozi, canceled his visit to the US. The summit will be held in Washington on Monday and will last for a week.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong style=\"text-align: justify\">UPDATE: 4:30 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1vkm6nb ehdk2mb0\">\n<h3 id=\"link-7bb0350e\" class=\"css-8f5kxd e1h9rw200\" style=\"text-align: justify\" data-testid=\"headline\">Yemen\u2019s Houthis Went From Ragtag Militia to Force Threatening Gulf Powers<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"new_york_times\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32855 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/new_york_times.jpg\" alt=\"Iranian resistance group criticizes Iraq's efforts to expel it\" width=\"104\" height=\"82\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\" style=\"text-align: justify\">BEIRUT, Lebanon \u2014 When a band of scrappy rebels known as the Houthis stormed out of the mountains of northern Yemen in 2014 and took over the capital, Sana, their friends and foes alike dismissed them as unsophisticated tribal fighters running around in sandals and armed with cheap guns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-g5piaz evys1bk0\" style=\"text-align: justify\">But during the civil war that has shattered Yemen in the years since, the group has gone through a remarkable transformation. It now rules a repressive proto-state in northern Yemen and wields a vast arsenal that includes an array of cruise and ballistic missiles and kamikaze boats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/17\/world\/middleeast\/yemen-houthis-gulf.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\">Tehran Threatens to Eliminate IAEA Footage at Natanz<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Behrouz-Kamalvandi-spokesman-for-the-Iranian-regimes-Atomic-Energy-Organization\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-257934 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Behrouz-Kamalvandi-spokesman-for-the-Iranian-regimes-Atomic-Energy-Organization-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"Behrouz-Kamalvandi-spokesman-for-the-Iranian-regimes-Atomic-Energy-Organization\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Behrouz-Kamalvandi-spokesman-for-the-Iranian-regimes-Atomic-Energy-Organization-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Behrouz-Kamalvandi-spokesman-for-the-Iranian-regimes-Atomic-Energy-Organization-768x445.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Behrouz-Kamalvandi-spokesman-for-the-Iranian-regimes-Atomic-Energy-Organization-150x87.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Behrouz-Kamalvandi-spokesman-for-the-Iranian-regimes-Atomic-Energy-Organization-696x403.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Behrouz-Kamalvandi-spokesman-for-the-Iranian-regimes-Atomic-Energy-Organization.jpg 855w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The spokesman for the Iranian regime\u2019s Atomic Energy Organization threatened that if Tehran and the International Atomic Energy Agency do not reach an agreement, the information of surveillance cameras at Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities may be eliminated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In an interview with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fa.alalam.ir\/news\/6132398\" rel=\"noopener\">state-run Al-Alam TV<\/a> on Saturday, April 16, while discussing the transfer of nuclear equipment from the TESA complex in Karaj to the Natanz facility Behrouz Kamalvandi said: &#8220;Unfortunately, because of the terrorist operation against the TESA \u00a0complex in Karaj, we had to intensify security measures, and we moved a significant part of these machines. In other words, the centrifuges were moved to a safer place because of their importance, and they are still working.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;The agency&#8217;s cameras were installed at the Natanz centrifuge facility, but until an agreement is reached between the Islamic Republic and the IAEA, the information will remain in our hands and will probably be removed,&#8221; Kamalvandi stressed.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\">Despite Parental Demand, Parliament Pushes for In-person Learning<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_224084\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-224084\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Majlis-the-parliament-of-the-Iranian-regime\" class=\"wp-image-224084 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Majlis-the-parliament-of-the-Iranian-regime-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"Majlis-the-parliament-of-the-Iranian-regime\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Majlis-the-parliament-of-the-Iranian-regime-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Majlis-the-parliament-of-the-Iranian-regime.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-224084\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Majlis, the parliament of the Iranian regime<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">While many Iranian cities have been witness to rallies of concerned parents, protesting the state&#8217;s decision to resume in-person classes in schools, 215 members of the Iranian regime&#8217;s parliament issued a statement today, expressing their support for the decision.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The state-run ILNA news agency reported: &#8220;In a public session today, Sunday, April 17, the MP Ruhollah Motafker Azad read a statement of appreciation from 215 representatives for the resuming of in-person training.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;We appreciate the correct, constructive, and logical decision making by the Corona National Taskforce regarding enabling the in-person education process in different stages of public and college education,&#8221; the statement reads. &#8220;Today, the disadvantages of long-term home-schooling are obvious to everyone. Considering the cons and pros of e-learning, this type of education should not be allowed to be extended.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong style=\"text-align: justify\">UPDATE: 10:00 AM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\">Another Iranian Political Prisoner Dies From Denial of Medical Care<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"mehdi_salehi_1401-e1650094372891\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-257883 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mehdi_salehi_1401-e1650094372891-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"mehdi_salehi_1401-e1650094372891\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mehdi_salehi_1401-e1650094372891-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mehdi_salehi_1401-e1650094372891-1024x522.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mehdi_salehi_1401-e1650094372891-768x392.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mehdi_salehi_1401-e1650094372891-150x77.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mehdi_salehi_1401-e1650094372891-696x355.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mehdi_salehi_1401-e1650094372891-1068x545.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mehdi_salehi_1401-e1650094372891.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Iranian political prisoner Mehdi Salehi, 36, died in Homayunshahr Prison, Isfahan, on April 14 under suspicious circumstances.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Salehi was arrested in Isfahan\u2019s Yazdanshahr, his hometown, during the January 2018 anti-regime protests while assisting a protester who had been shot by security forces. According to reports, security forces shot Salehi with pellet guns at the time of his arrest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/news\/another-iranian-political-prisoner-dies-from-denial-of-medical-care\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\">Ramadan: Prisoners in Qarchak and Sanandaj Prisons Are Denied Food<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"prisoners-in-Sanandaj\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-257912 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/prisoners-in-Sanandaj-300x150.webp\" alt=\"prisoners-in-Sanandaj\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/prisoners-in-Sanandaj-300x150.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/prisoners-in-Sanandaj-150x75.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/prisoners-in-Sanandaj-696x348.webp 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/prisoners-in-Sanandaj.webp 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Female prisoners in\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/women.ncr-iran.org\/abysmal-conditions-of-inmates-in-qarchak-prison-for-women\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Qarchak Prison<\/a>\u00a0and the women\u2019s ward of the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/women.ncr-iran.org\/2020\/12\/27\/woman-hanged-in-the-central-prison-of-sanandaj-despite-nervous-disorder\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Central Prison of Sanandaj<\/a>, known as the Correctional Center, are deprived of food during the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjX1LnpnZn3AhW0S_EDHYbeB-YQFnoECHMQAQ&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.britannica.com%2Ftopic%2FRamadan&amp;usg=AOvVaw2Wr1nq6OwcFLTsTH_w6SXE\" rel=\"noopener\">holy month<\/a> of Ramadan. These prisoners are not in good condition, and the prison authorities are starving them. During Ramadan, political prisoners in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/women.ncr-iran.org\/2021\/12\/09\/the-conditions-of-women-iran-prisons\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Qarchak Prison in Varamin<\/a> are deprived of basic facilities. These women do not have a place to use a cooking light to prepare a simple meal to break their fast or even warm up a simple soup for the sick. Prison food has no meat, and soy is added to the food instead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/women.ncr-iran.org\/2022\/04\/16\/ramadan-prisoners-denied-food\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\">Iran\u2019s Northern Forests Become Residential Under the Mullah\u2019s Rule<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Irans-northern-forests\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-257913 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Irans-northern-forests-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"Irans-northern-forests\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Irans-northern-forests-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Irans-northern-forests-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Irans-northern-forests-696x348.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Irans-northern-forests.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Even though Iran is rich in natural resources, its forests have been the recipient of increasing depletion and deterioration under the rule of the ayatollahs. According to\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isna.ir\/news\/1400093023407\/%D8%AA%D8%A7-%DB%B5%DB%B0-%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%A2%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87-%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C-%D8%AC%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%84-%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%86-%D9%85%DB%8C-%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF\" rel=\"noopener\">Farzad Alizadeh<\/a>, an environmental activist, \u201cIn the last 70 years, seven million hectares of Zagros (Western part of Iran) forests have been lost, and now only five million hectares of forests remain in the Zagros. It seems that we are working to destroy the country\u2019s forests and pastures, unfortunately, for the next 50 years. We will lose all forests and all pastures in the next 80 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/irannewswire.org\/irans-northern-forests\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: justify\">Iran: Tehran, The World\u2019s Most Air-Polluted City<\/h3>\n<div class=\"td-module-meta-info\" style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Iran-Tehran-Air-Pollution\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-257914 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Iran-Tehran-Air-Pollution-300x188.webp\" alt=\"Iran-Tehran-Air-Pollution\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" \/>In recent days, the air pollution in the Iranian capital Tehran has become a significant\u00a0problem\u00a0for its residents. According to the IQ Air organization, Tehran was registered as the most air-polluted city globally on April 8 and 9, 2022, with reports that there are 105.9\u00b5g\/m\u00b3 of PM2.5, 167.2\u00b5g\/m\u00b3 of PM10, 60\u00b5g\/m\u00b3, 238\u00b5g\/m\u00b3 of NO2, 29.3\u00b5g\/m\u00b3 of SO2, and 2267.1\u00b5g\/m\u00b3 of CO in Tehran\u2019s sky.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Air pollution is a long-standing problem in Iran. Based on official stats, over 40,000 people lose their lives due to air pollution in Iran\u2019s large cities every year, and Tehran has the lion\u2019s share of victims. In many cases, the pollution is so bad that officials are forced to shut down schools, government offices, and other crowded sites.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/irannewsupdate.com\/news\/general\/iran-tehran-the-worlds-most-air-polluted-city\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Read more: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-april-16-2022\/\"><strong>Iran News in Brief \u2013 April 16<\/strong><strong>, 2022<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS UPDATE: 6:00 PM CEST Iranian Regime&rsquo;s Delegation Will Not Attend World Bank Meeting in the US The Iranian regime&rsquo;s the Minister [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":257920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,182,234],"tags":[129,277],"class_list":{"0":"post-257910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-latest-news-in-brief","9":"category-iran-news-in-brief-news","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-iran-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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