• Mnuchin Says U.S. Will Consider Some Waivers On Iran Sanctions
The United States wants to avoid disrupting global oil markets as it reimposes sanctions against Tehran and in certain cases will consider waivers for countries which need more time to wind down their oil imports from Iran, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said.
“We want people to reduce oil purchases to zero, but in certain cases if people can’t do that overnight, we’ll consider exceptions.
• Iran threatening German state’s stability with WMD: Intel report
Iran, July 16, 2018 – The Iranian regime has been singled out in a new German intelligence report as one of two countries seeking to obtain weapons of mass destruction, according to a text published by the state of Hesse.
The document, obtained by the media, reads in part:
“Weapons of mass destruction are a continued instrument of power politics that also, in regional and international crises situations, can shatter the entire stability of state structures. States like Iran and North Korea attempt, in the context of proliferation, to acquire and spread such weapons by, for example, disguising the transportation ways through third countries.”
The Iranian regime intelligence apparatus’ objective is “to circumvent control mechanisms in countries that are not especially subject to embargo restrictions,” the report covering the year of 2016 adds.
• Iranian Pilot Arrested After Revealing Safety Lapses On A TV Show
An Iranian pilot who recently made revelations about gross safety violations by Iranian airlines was arrested on Sunday, July 15 in Tehran for a few hours.
Five days earlier, Sadeghi appeared on a popular TV show on channel 3 of Iranian state TV and revealed that Iranian airlines put pressure on the pilots to fly planes with technical flaws.
• Protest Of Farmers And Gardeners Continues In Western Isfahan
On Monday morning, July 16, 2018, for the second day in a row, the tired and underprivileged farmers and gardeners in Isfahan gathered in front of the city’s water organization in protest against the lack of water and the destruction of their agricultural farming lands and assets.
The farmers and gardeners in the western cities of Isfahan demanded their water rights for the second day in a row.
• Protest Of Looted Investors Of Melal Credit Institution In Gachsaran
On Monday morning, July 16, 2018, the looted investors of the Melal Credit Institute in Gachsaran closed the door of the institute in protest to the looting and plundering of their assets.
The financial and credit institution of Melal in the Gachsaran Branch was formally named Arman and was active from 2012 to 2017 in Gachsaran.
The 120,000-populated city of Gachsaran is located in the southwest of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran.
• Sufi woman Sepideh Moradi refused to appear in court
Sufi woman Sepideh Moradi refused to appear before the court on Saturday, July 14, 2018.
Imprisoned in Qarchak Prison (a.k.a. Shahr-e Ray) in Varamin, Sufi woman Sepideh Moradi Sarvestani is protesting denial of access to defense lawyers for Sufi prisoners and the prison authorities’ failure to observe the due process of law.
Sufi woman Sepideh Moradi was summoned on July 14, 2018, by the 15th Branch of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran by the notorious Judge Salavati.
• Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian urges end to executions
Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian called on the people of Iran as well as international human rights organizations to take action to abolish the death penalty in Iran.
Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian who was herself on the death row for four years, has written an open letter addressed to death-row political prisoners Ramin Hossein Panahi, Zanyar and Loghman Moradi, Kamal Hassan Ramezan, etc., calling on the people of Iran and human rights organizations around the world to form a front against the death penalty.
