{"id":257980,"date":"2022-04-19T08:44:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T07:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=257980"},"modified":"2023-01-31T22:50:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T21:50:26","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-april-19-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-april-19-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief \u2013 April 19, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Shahgoli Park in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan Province, northwestern Iran<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

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

In Iran, Russia\u2019s War on Ukraine Is a Political Flash Point<\/h3>\n

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) \u2014 During its 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran embraced the protest cry of \u201cneither East nor West,\u201d rejecting both the U.S. and the Soviet Union, then locked in the Cold War. The phrase to this day hangs over the doors of Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine, however, has exposed just how much Tehran has tilted toward Moscow in recent years as the collapse of its nuclear deal with world powers stoked decades-old, hard-line anger at America. Members of Iran\u2019s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard train on Russian surface-to-air missile systems and aircraft. Hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi visited Russian President Vladimir Putin on one of his first trips abroad.<\/p>\n

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

Us-led Task Force To Stop Iranian Weapons From Reaching Yemen<\/h3>\n

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The United States is seeking to reassure Saudi Arabia and the UAE by forming a naval task force to prevent the smuggling of weapons that reach the Houthi rebels and their smuggling from Iran.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The US Navy announced that it is working to form a new multinational task force that will target arms smuggling in the waters around Yemen. In the country, the Houthis, after overthrowing the regular government, have been fighting for nearly seven years against a Saudi-led coalition, and to a lesser extent openly against the United Arab Emirates. Rebels receive weapons smuggled from the Pasdaran.<\/p>\n

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Iraq Finds No Evidence of Mossad Link in Erbil Attack<\/h3>\n

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Baghdad has not found evidence to support Iran\u2019s claims that an Israeli intelligence centre was based in\u00a0Erbil<\/a>, officials said on Monday.<\/p>\n

Last month,\u00a0Tehran<\/a>\u00a0took responsibility for missile strikes on the northern Iraq city, saying it had hit an Israeli \u201cstrategic centre\u201d.<\/p>\n

Missiles struck a villa owned by Baz Karim Barzanji, a Kurdish businessman. He runs the KAR Group, which operates the largest oil refinery in the Kurdish region, among a portfolio of projects that includes water and power.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 2:00 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clash of Words Between State Newspapers Exposes Tehran\u2019s Deceit Tactics and Setback<\/h3>\n

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\u201cNearly a week after it was announced that $7 billion of Iran’s foreign exchange resources would be released, the news turned out to be inaccurate,\u201d the state-run Mardomsalary wrote<\/a> today. \u201cA few days later, when the United States denied the latter, the perception has become evident that it was just a hoax to influence the market.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mardomsalary added: \u201cNow, exactly one week after the news was published, apparently to keep the public opinion busy for some time, the Kayhan newspaper claimed last Saturday that “our $7 billion demand from South Korea is going to be paid in exchange for the release of three veteran spies who jointly served the US, British and Israeli intelligence services” and seemingly Kayhan opposed the deal, arguing that Iran could block the Strait of Hormuz to get its money free anyway. But this article was probably prepared to justify things when the news of Iran’s $7 billion release turns out to be nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Criticizing the Kayhan editor-in-chief, Mardomsalary wrote: \u201cHowever, as it is typical for Hossein Shariatmadari, the author of this article and Kayhan\u2019s editor-in-chief, this was a bit amateurish and it violated our international interests and diplomatic principles. And therefore, the South Korean Foreign Ministry announced on Monday that the country’s Deputy Foreign Minister had summoned the Iranian ambassador to Seoul because of Kayhan\u2019s piece.\u201d<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 10:00 AM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Slogans of Regime Change in Tabriz, Northwest Iran<\/h3>\n

Last night, April 18,\u00a0<\/span>10:30 pm local time, people who passed the El Goli (also called Shah Goli) a large historic park in the southeast region of Tabriz, East Azerbaijan Province, came to hear slogans like “Death to Khamenei, Khomeini be damned!”, “Viva Rajavi!” “Neither the Shah nor the mullahs, I’m for the people!” as well as excerpts of speeches by Iranian Resistance leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n

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April 18 – Tabriz, northwest #Iran<\/a>
10:30 pm local time
Anti-regime slogans aired in public
"Death to Khamenei!"
"Khomeini be damned!"
"Hail to Rajavi!"
"Neither the Shah, nor the mullahs! I'm for the people!"
Speeches by Iranian Resistance leaders.pic.twitter.com\/0MZ50K2Qyw<\/a><\/p>\n

— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n