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Iran news in brief, January 31, 2018



Iran news in brief, January 31, 2018

1-  Trump slams US intelligence chiefs as ‘passive and naive’ on Iran
President Donald Trump on Wednesday called US intelligence chiefs “extremely passive and naive” on Iran and dismissed their assessments of the threat posed by North Korea a day after they contradicted his views during congressional testimony.
Leaders of the US intelligence community told a Senate committee on Tuesday that the nuclear threat from North Korea persists and that Iran is not taking steps toward making a nuclear bomb, conclusions that contrasted starkly with Trump’s assessments of those countries.
Trump, whose has criticized US intelligence agencies starting even before he took office, said in a Twitter post: “The Intelligence people seem to be extremely passive and naive when it comes to the dangers of Iran. They are wrong!”.
Trump cited Iranian rocket launches and said that Tehran was “coming very close to the edge.”
Trump said: “Perhaps Intelligence should go back to school!”.

2-  Eight Iranian Environmentalists Accused Of Spying Go On Trial
Eight Iranian environmentalists accused of spying appeared in a Tehran court on January 30 for a closed-door trial, local media report.
Four of the defendants were charged last year with “sowing corruption on Earth,” a charge that can carry the death sentence in Iran.
Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi has claimed the activists were “seeking proximity to military sites with the cover of the environmental projects and obtaining military information from them.”
The state news agency IRNA reported: Three other activists are accused of espionage and the last one has been charged with "conspiracy against national security,".
Human Rights Watch in October called the accusations against the eight environmentalists “ridiculous.”

3- 87th Woman Executed Under Rouhani In Iran
A woman was hanged on Wednesday, January 30, 2019, in Nowshahr Prison, in the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran.
She had spent six years on death row.
The woman is the 87th woman who is executed under Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian regime’s president.
The Iranian regime is the world’s top record holder in execution of women while it has the highest per capita executions in the world.

4-  U.S. Counterterror Official Visiting Europe 'On Iran-Backed Terrorism'
The U.S. State Department announced on January 29 that its top counterterrorism official is visiting Europe to discuss Iran’s terror related activities.
Ambassador Nathan A. Sales will visit Denmark, Sweden and Norway this week to “discuss Iran-backed terrorism in Europe, prosecuting foreign terrorist fights, and combatting terrorist travel.”

5-  Iran ships 30 tons of uranium ore to enrichment facility in Isfahan, ostensibly for nuclear plant fuel
Iran has sent a large batch of mined uranium yellowcake for processing ahead of shipment to its main enrichment facility, Iran’s state news agency reported on Wednesday in the latest sign of plans to step up its atomic activities.
Yellowcake, or uranium ore, can be further processed into enriched uranium to make fuel for nuclear power plants, Iran’s stated aim, or to provide material for atomic bombs if refined much more, which the West fears may be the Islamic Republic’s ultimate goal.
Thirty tons of yellowcake from a production plant in the city of Ardakan in central Iran was sent to a uranium conversion facility in Isfahan on Wednesday, the News Agency (IRNA) reported.
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