Iran news in brief, April 22, 2019
Google Disables YouTube Account of Iran's "PressTV"
Following a series of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards accounts
being closed down by Instagram after the U.S. State Department’s decision to
designate this entity as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization” YouTube is taking
action and has disabled the channel affiliated to the regime’s Press TV.
Press TV is considered Tehran’s main English language
mouthpiece. The Fars news agency, affiliated to the IRGC, wired a report
complaining that Google had issued no prior warnings. This disabling measure
also covers the mullahs’ “HispanTV” channel on YouTube.
Iran, south Korea Trade at Record Low Since 2015
Iran's imports from South Korea has dramatically dropped
during the past two years according to figures released by the joint Iran-Korea
chamber of commerce.
Meanwhile, Iran's export to South Korea has dropped from
$4386 in 2017 million to $1806 million during the first 11 months of 2018.
This is a record low since 2015 when Iran and the West made a
nuclear agreement to limit Iran's nuclear program and lift international sanctions
on Iran in return.
Pouya Firouzi, the secretary general of Iran and South
Korea's joint chamber of commerce has told Fars news agency on Saturday April
20 that problems in the areas of transportation and insurance have led to a
decline in trade between Iran and South Korea.
Iran: Protest Rally by Farmers in Isfahan
A group of farmers from the town of Khorasgan, east of the
central city of Isfahan, rallied on Friday, protesting the local government’s
new pipeline construction project. The regime’s steel company is installing new
pipelines to transfer water from a local lake.
One farmer complained and said they opened the gates to the
dams to let the water drain for 90 days. They wanted to see how much water they
could take.
Steel company authorities in Isfahan started to install the
new water pipeline on Thursday to direct water from Zayandeh-Rud River to their
mill. Local farmers and people from Isfahan protested the decision and said it
goes against environmental codes.
They considered this move illegal and are trying to stop the
initiative altogether.
Amnesty International: Stop Crackdown on Women's Rights
Defenders
Amnesty International issued a statement urging the Iranian
regime to stop harassing, arresting and imprisoning women’s rights defenders
peacefully protesting against Iran’s degrading and discriminatory forced
veiling laws.
Amnesty International also reiterated in its statement,
“Iran’s intelligence and security bodies have also subjected several other
women’s rights defenders to threatening telephone calls, warning them that they
will be arrested if they continue to campaign against forced veiling. Some have
been summoned for questioning and fear imminent arrest.”
Iran Sentences Rights Defender Jail and Lashes for
'Anti-State Propaganda'
Human rights defender Nader Afshari has been sentenced to one
year in prison and 74 lashes after being convicted of “disrupting public order”
and “propaganda against the state.”
The activist had also been sentenced to four months in prison
in February 2019 for spreading anti-state propaganda.
Prior to his sentencing he was facing charge of “speaking out
in the media and reporting about Iranian political prisoners.”
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