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Iran news in brief, February 6, 2018 1- In Speech, Trump Calls Iran 'A Radical Regime,' Defends Withdrawal From Nuke Deal U.S. President Donald Trump called the Iranian government a “radical regime,’ and he vowed that Tehran would never acquire nuclear weapons. Trump made the comments February 5, during his State of the Union speech before a joint session of Congress. "They do bad, bad things," Trump said, as he accused the Iranian government of being anti-Semitic. Trump defended his decision to pull out of the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran, which lifted crippling sanctions in exchange for Iran curtailing its nuclear ambitions. He said: “My Administration has acted decisively to confront the world's leading state sponsor of terror: the radical regime in Iran,”. Trump said“To ensure this corrupt dictatorship never acquires nuclear weapons, I withdrew the United States from the disastrous Iran nuclear deal. And last fall, we put in place the to...

Iran news in brief, January 16, 2019 1- Germany Arrests German-Afghan Army Adviser For 'Spying For Iran' Germany on Tuesday detained a German-Afghan man on suspicion he was spying for Iran while working for the German army as a linguistic and cultural adviser. The 50-year-old identified as Abdul Hamid S. was arrested in western Germany, federal prosecutors said in a statement. According to Spiegel Online, he is suspected of working for Iranian secret services for several years. While working for the German army, he had access to highly sensitive information including on troop deployment in Afghanistan, the report added. 2- U.S. police arrest journalist working for Iran's state TV U.S. police have arrested an American-born journalist working for Iran’s English-language Press TV on unspecified charges, the state-run broadcaster reported on Wednesday. Press TV said Marziyeh Hashemi was arrested at St. Louis Lambert International Airport on Sunday and wa...

Iran news in brief, January 15, 2019 1- Iran Regime Announces Failure of Satellite Launch Iran Regime said it conducted a satellite launch, but the rocket failed to reach orbit. Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi told state TV that the rocket carrying the Payam satellite failed to reach the "necessary speed" in the third stage of launch. The reported launch, on January 15, came amid growing warnings from the United States about Tehran's rocket tests and accusations they violate United Nations resolutions. Tehran is facing increasingly harsh warnings from U.S. President Donald Trump's administration. 2- Military Cargo Plane Crashes Near Tehran - 15 Reported Killed Iran's army has announced a cargo plane that crashed in Iran's Alborz province, west of Tehran on Monday was a military plane and that 15 out of the 16 people on board had been killed, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. "A Boeing cargo 707 p...

Iran news in brief, January 14, 2019 1- Iran Regime Publicly Executes Three Men Iran Regime on Sunday hanged 3 men sentenced to death, all of them executed in public in front of a crowd of onlookers, Iranian judiciary’s website Mizan reported. It took place on January 13, in the city of Yasuj, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province. 2- Women Prisoners of Conscience Object to Increasing Pressures in Prison Women prisoners of conscience Nasrin Sotoudeh and Azita Rafizadeh objected to the restrictions on telephone calls to families for women prisoners in Evin Prison. Since Sunday, January 6, 2019, Nasrin Sotoudeh and Azita Rafizadeh stopped their telephone calls to their families to demonstrate their protest and announced that they would refrain from calling anyone outside the prison until the restrictions are lifted. 3- Man Forces Children to Eat the Flowers They Are Trying To Sell Iran’s State Welfare Organization, the minister of labor and Kerman’s city administrat...

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Iran news in brief, January 6, 2019 1- Tortured Worker Challenges the Minister of Intelligence to a Debate Esmail Bakhshi, one of the protesting workers of Haft-Tappeh Sugarcane Company who was arrested and heavily tortured in prison, has challenged the minister of Intelligence to answer his questions on a live TV program. On his Instagram page, Bakhshi says: “After 25 days of arrest, I am now forced to use psychoactive medication.” Bakhshi says: “They beat me up so hard that I could not move in my cell for 72 hours, and even sleeping was painful. Today, after almost two months since that day, I still feel pain in my broken ribs, kidneys, left ear, and testicles. The interesting thing was that the torturers called themselves the Anonymous Soldiers of the Messiah.” Bakhshi also asks the minister of intelligence: “As someone who is a cleric, I ask you, what is the moral, humanitarian, and Islamic verdict of torturing a prisoner? Is it OK? How much of it? Esmail Bakhshi was arre...

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