{"id":258408,"date":"2022-05-01T10:03:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T09:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=258408"},"modified":"2023-02-04T20:22:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T19:22:05","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-may-1-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-may-1-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief \u2013 May 1, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

Sen. Menendez Has Message for Biden Admin on Iran: \u2018No Deal Is Better Than a Bad Deal\u2019<\/h3>\n

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Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., wants the\u00a0Biden<\/a>\u00a0administration to make sure\u00a0Iran<\/a> cannot obtain nuclear weapons but warned that any new deal with the Islamic nation must come with strong terms that would actually keep them from doing so.<\/p>\n

Menendez, who opposed the original Iran deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, indicated in an interview with “Fox News Sunday” that a good enough deal does not appear to be on the horizon at this point in time.<\/p>\n

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Iran Cracks Down on Labor Day Protests by Teachers<\/h3>\n

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Police cracked down on protests by teachers across Iran on Sunday.\u00a0Teachers organized demonstrations in several cities on Labor Day to reiterate their demands for higher pay and better working conditions.<\/p>\n

Clashes broke out after police used force against protesters in the provinces of Fars, Kermanshah, Kurdistan, Markazi, Ardabil, Isfahan, and Bushehr.<\/p>\n

There was no immediate confirmation of casualties or arrests, although videos circulating on social media showed several teachers being detained by security forces.<\/p>\n

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Nationwide Protests Triggers Blame Game Among State Officials<\/h3>\n

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Today, following a nationwide protest by teachers and other social groups, the Iranian regime’s officials started to blame each other for the multiple unsolved crises that continue to raise the alarms.<\/p>\n

According to the regime’s parliament website<\/a>, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf said today: “Since the necessary legal procedures have been completed, it is expected that the government will fulfill the demands of the teachers as soon as possible and in the coming days, by accelerating its approval as well as the implementation of the Teachers Ranking Law.”<\/p>\n

In turn, the Iranian regime’s president Ebrahim Raisi blamed the Rouhani administration for the current problems.<\/p>\n

“Raising utility tariffs, including water and electricity, has been a requirement of the budget law, which should have been in place from the beginning of the last year,” Raisi said according to the presidential website<\/a>. “But the previous government stood by and failed to execute any legal initiative that would have triggered an upheaval.”<\/p>\n

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Pensioners and Retired Personel Protested on Sunday<\/h3>\n

Today, while honoring International Workers’ Day, retirees and social security pensioners across Iran held protest rallies in front of the Social Security Administration in their hometowns. Until mid-day, reports of rallies from the cities of Arak, Rasht, Kermanshah, Ardabil, and Ahvaz were confirmed. The protestors complain about low wages and pensions, supplementary insurance problems, and poor living conditions. Social security retirees demand a full increase and equalization of salaries.<\/p>\n

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