• GE Pulls Back From Work in Iran
General Electric Co. is planning to end sales of oil and natural-gas equipment later this year in Iran, people familiar with the matter said, illustrating how U.S. withdrawal from the nuclear deal is shutting a narrow window of opportunity for some American businesses there.
GE had big ambitions in Iran after world powers, including the U.S., agreed to lift many sanctions on Tehran in 2016 in exchange for curbs on Iran’s nuclear program. GE’s foreign subsidiaries were preparing as much as $150 million in bids for pipelines.
• $59 Billion Has Left Iran In Past Two Years
More than $59 billion in hard currency has left Iran during last two years, Islamic Parliament Research Center (IPRC) has disclosed.
According to IPRC, following the United States withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) or Tehran’s nuclear deal with world power, more billions are expected to leave Iran in the coming months.
IRPC has also said that $59 billion is a significant figure in Iran’s financial situation, a website close to the speaker of parliament, Khabar Online reported on Monday, May 28.
• Women partake in protests in Mashhad, Boukan
Iranian women participated in protests in Shiraz (southern Iran), Boukan (western Iran), and Mashhad (in the northeast) on May 29 and 30, 2018.
Wednesday, May 30, 2018, residents of Masjid Yas district in Boukan, Iranian Kurdistan, marched to the Governor’s Office to protest water and gas cut-off. A good number of women living in this district actively participated in this march.
On the same day, a group of women and men plundered by Afzal-e Tous Institute in Mashhad, capital of Razavi Khorassan Province in northeastern Iran, held a protest outside the Ayandeh Bank in this city.
• Quake victims forced out of camp on Governor’s order
Forty families who were living in Shahed Camps 2 and 3 were forced out of the camps on the order of the Governor of Sarpol-e Zahab. Women and children have thus been rendered homeless.
Wednesday, May 30, 2018, on the orders of the Governor of Sarpol-e Zahab, one of the regions hardest hit by the November earthquake, the water and power of the units belonging to 40 families residing in Shahed Camps 2 and 3 were cut off and they were forced to evacuate the camps in the month of Ramadan.
• 15-year-old girl remains in detention without legal warrant
Ma’edeh Shabani-Nejad, 15, who was arrested in January for writing nationalistic and epical poetry in Arabic, remains in detention in Sepidar Prison of Ahwaz, southwestern Iran, because her family does not afford to pay the 350million-touman bail set for her release.
she was arrested in her uncle’s house in Ahwaz on January 25, 2018, by the IRGC’s Department of Intelligence and transferred to the IRGC detention center.