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Iran news in brief, January 19, 2019



Iran news in brief, January 19, 2019

Four Political Activists Interrogated and One Arrested In Iran
Reports from Iran say that four political activists in the Kermanshah province were taken to the intelligence ministry and questioned for their activities in cyberspace and one of them was arrested.
In recent days more than a dozen environment activists were also detained for questioning in Kurdistan provine.

Political prisoner was refused hospitalization despite medical authorization
Saeed Shirzad, a political prisoner in Rajaee Shahr prison in Karaj, has been refused urgent medical care despite doctors requested his transfer to hospital for his severe kidneys’ failure a month ago. While the prosecutor’s office has assured that he would receive treatment, prison authorities have prevented this transfer.

Iran Concerned About Oil Revenues, U.S. Pressure
Iran regime’s Vice-President Mohammad Baqer Nobakht says Tehran is facing "serious problems in exporting oil" as a result of " sanctions."
Speaking in the south-eastern province of Kerman on Friday January 18, Nobakht said that Iran is also facing difficulties in repatriating the money resulting from oil sales.
He told: "It is sometimes impossible to bring back the money, and sometimes difficult,”.
The Iranian vice-president also said that sanctions on shipping and insurance have made oil export even more difficult for Iran.
Meanwhile, according to OPEC, Iran’s crude oil production declined about 1.04 million barrels per day (mb/d) to 2.769 mb/d in December from early 2018.

Billions of Government Supplied Cheap Dollars Disappear
The chairman of Iranian parliament’s economic commission says that $3.5 billion dollars of cheap foreign currency was handed out to importers, but nothing has been brought to the country.
Mohammad Reza Poor-Ebrahimi told the state TV on January 17 that out of $14 billion dollars given to importers since March 21, 2018, $3.5 billion is unaccounted for.
He added that 4,200 court cases have been launched but did not say what is the status of the investigation into these cases.

UN experts: Fuel from Iran is financing Yemen’s Houthis
Fuel is being shipped illegally from Iran to Houthi militias in Yemen to finance their war against the government, according to a report by a UN panel of experts seen by AFP.
The findings are expected to again raise questions about Iran's support for the Houthis in the war.
In a previous report, the experts said they were investigating monthly fuel donations from Iran valued at $30 million.

Senior Iran cleric says Iranians want “easy money”, denies high unemployment
According to a senior Iranian cleric who represents Isfahan in the Assembly of Experts, there are more than enough jobs in Iran and the reason behind the high unemployment rate and the growing smuggling and robbery rates is that Iranians “want easy money”.
The senior cleric, who is obviously out of tune with the desperation of a person who is unable to provide food for his family, said that “good” people do not become thieves.
“It is not as though poverty forces people (into robbery) … if a person does not have a wicked nature, they would not go into these kinds of work,” he said.
He also claimed that the people had to depend on divine aid for their economic hardships.
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