{"id":4544,"date":"2018-03-15T16:31:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T13:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabiangcis.org\/english\/?p=4544"},"modified":"2018-03-15T17:54:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T14:54:05","slug":"iranian-ambassador-to-britain-threatened-to-death-and-28-increase-in-the-budget-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rasanah-iiis.org\/english\/monitoring-and-translation\/iran-in-a-week\/iranian-ambassador-to-britain-threatened-to-death-and-28-increase-in-the-budget-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian ambassador to Britain threatened to death and 28% increase in the budget deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00bb The fate of JCPOA after Tillerson<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\nThis editorial focuses on Iran\u2019s nuclear deal following the recent sacking of the U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
\nThe editorialist opens his piece by referring to disagreements and tensions between the U.S. President Donald Trump and his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson from the very beginning, saying that Tillerson did his best to stand up against \u201cTrump\u2019s erratic foreign policy\u201d, specifically regarding Iran\u2019s nuclear deal. Many analysts believe that Trump has not been able to do any damages to JCPOA so far– despite numerous threats– only because of Tillerson\u2019s support of the deal. As a consequence, his departure can be considered as a signal for JCPOA\u2019s impending doom.
\nThe editorialist holds that Donald Trump has made up his mind about the Iran nuclear deal. Given the dismissal of Rex Tillerson and several others in the U.S. administration who had given warnings about the negative impact of Trump\u2019s decisions on international affairs, it seems that he will soon announce U.S. withdrawal from JCPOA. Especially now that the U.S. Congress has remained silent about this issue.
\nIn the end, the editorial poses a major question regarding Iran\u2019s position in this regard: Will the key decision-makers in Iran\u2019s establishment continue their past policies?
\nAn Editorial in Bahar daily on March 14, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00bb <\/span>Zarif is after wind!<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe editorial of Javan online explains why Iranian FM Mohammad Javad Zarif\u2019s trip to Pakistan would be useless while highlighting oil minister\u2019s mistake about exporting gas to Pakistan.
\nAccording to the editorial, even though one of the aims of Zarif\u2019s trip to Pakistan was consulting about implementation of Peace Pipeline to export gas to Pakistan, one cannot hope for this trip\u2019s success as Iranian Oil Minister Bizhan Zanganeh who is not interested in exporting gas to Pakistan has not accompanied Zarif on trip to this country.
\nZanganeh believes the editorial continues, that Iran has wasted money by investing on this pipeline. But this is not true. In the 10th government, a pipeline was built to take gas from Assaluyeh to Iranshahr, Sistan, and Baluchistan. At the same time, a 500-million-euro contract was signed between Iran and Pakistan according to which Iran was going to help Pakistan in building this pipeline. The loan would be reimbursed through the gas price. IRGC\u2019s Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarter started building the pipeline from Iranshahr towards the border with Pakistan.
\nThe editorial then adds: Zanganeh, in his first days of becoming the oil minister, decided to stop the loan, and then took the contract from Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarter and gave it to other contractors. Unlike what the oil minister says, Iran has made no investment on this pipeline. The oil ministry has never given any money to Islamabad, nor has it invested on exporting gas to Pakistan.
\nThe editorial concludes that one shouldn\u2019t conceal the truth to cover up his own mistakes. By not completing the pipeline towards the border, the oil minister had unofficially announced that Iran is not interested in exporting gas to Pakistan.
\nAn Editorial in Javan online on March 13, 2018<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00bb <\/span>British Ambassador to be Expelled from Tehran?<\/span><\/strong>
\nThis editorial, penned by a former member of the Iranian parliament\u2019s national security and foreign policy commission, addresses recent breaching of Iran\u2019s embassy in London and offers suggestions on how to react in connection with this incident.
\nThe editorialist holds that the March 9 attack on the Iranian embassy in London needs a decisive and serious reaction from the country\u2019s diplomatic apparatus as it concerns Iran\u2019s dignity in the diplomacy arena. Moreover, the editorialist claims that the organization affiliated with the Shirazis [Grand Ayatollah Sadegh Hossein Shirazi whose supporters attacked Iran\u2019s embassy after his son\u2019s arrest] is militarily equipped at the heart of London, and somehow supported by the British government. Therefore, Iran\u2019s diplomatic apparatus should take a proportionate measure in this regard. Otherwise, Iran\u2019s embassies in other countries might become the targets of such attacks due to the enmity of the governments of the countries where they are located.
\nThe editorialist then infers that the best response to this incident is to expel the British ambassador from Tehran, adding that Iran has never benefited from its relations with Britain and would suffer no loss if it cut ties with this country.
\nAn Editorial in Asr-e Iranian daily on March 12, 2018<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00bb<\/span> Our Economy!<\/span><\/strong>
\nThe editorial of Mostaghel newspaper wryly suggests that Iranian economic theorists must follow the model which exists in \u201cnarcotic drug market\u201d to be able to deal with existing economic problems in Iran. And that\u2019s because the economic system of this \u201cinformal market\u201d enjoys the order which doesn\u2019t exist in the country\u2019s private and public sectors.
\nAccording to the editorial, whereas what the economic scientists suggest for overcoming the \u201ceconomic crisis in the country\u201d is absolutely academic, Iran needs a practical model to observe the \u201cbalance between supply and demand\u201d, to stop \u201cinflation and recession\u201d and to always give \u201cthe right to the customers\u201d. It is under such conditions that the editorialist suggests following the model of the narcotic drug market.
\nThe editorial sarcastically continues: in the drug market, there is no delay or lack of coordination in the circulation of money, prices grow logically and gradually so that the dealers and users do not face any crisis, the distribution market is predictable and transparent, buyers and sellers respect each other, etc.
\nThe editorial adds that if those who are in charge of Iran\u2019s disordered economy study the narcotic drug market, they will come to a better understanding of the country\u2019s economy, and they don\u2019t have to spend a lot of their time on gaining useless academic knowledge.
\nThe editorial mockingly concludes that since there are none of the hassles of the official markets in the \u201cillegal drug markets\u201d \u2013 such as conditions of the customs office, added-values tax, rent-seeking, and double standards \u2013 this market is the most regulated part of the economy in Iran!
\nAn Editorial in Mostaghel on March 11, 2018<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00bb<\/span> Why Contradictory Behaviors towards Europe?<\/span><\/strong>
\nThe editorial of Javan online probes into contradictory behaviors of Iranian diplomatic apparatus towards Europeans with regard to the nuclear deal (JCPOA).
\nThe editorial urges that lack of political stability is conspicuous in the behaviors of Iran\u2019s foreign diplomatic apparatus in confronting the U.S. and particularly Europe. 6 months after Donald Trump became the U.S. president, Iranian foreign diplomatic apparatus was still afraid to admit U.S. violation of the JCPOA. Meanwhile, even though Iran had expressed satisfaction with Europe\u2019s performance for past 33 months, suddenly last week it said the Europeans have violated the JCPOA.
\nThe editorial goes on to say that Europeans enjoy an \u201cintegrated, calculated approach\u201d towards Iran\u2019s nuclear case \u2013 not fulfilling their obligations, a unified position in announcing Iran as a violator of the JCPOA, and a unanimous attempt to add an amendment to the JCPOA.
\nThe editorial adds after 33 months of expressing satisfaction with the Europeans\u2019 approach to the JCPOA, FM Mohammad Javad Zarif suddenly said, \u201ccurrently two groups are violating the JCPOA: the Americans and the Europeans \u2013 Americans because of Washington\u2019s policy and Europeans due to the U.S. policies.\u201d
\nThe editorial then asks: why did Iranian foreign minister admit that Europe violates JCPOA with the 33-month delay? While the Europeans have continuously violated JCPOA in past 33 months, have kept silent in front of the U.S., and have repeatedly accused Iran of violating the spirit of JCOPA and Resolution 2231, why hasn\u2019t Iran\u2019s foreign diplomatic apparatus followed up the issue within the framework of JCPOA\u2019s joint commission?
\nThe editorial concludes that the unstable behavior of Iran\u2019s foreign diplomatic apparatus can eventually result in accepting U.S. president\u2019s 4 conditions because western countries will see it as Iran\u2019s willingness to stay in the JCPOA at any costs.
\nAn Editorial in Javan online on March 11, 2018<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2666<\/span> Four defenders of human rights groups called for Iran to stop persecuting families of the dead in prison<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Four groups of defenders of human rights accused officials of Iran of \u201ccruel persecution and threats against families of those who suspiciously lost their lives in prisons,\u201d calling for stopping these persecutions.
\nAmnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Center for Human Rights in Iran, and Justice for Iran, in a joint statement, said these mourning families that are after truth and justice in relation to deaths of their loved ones are treated with a vengeance.
\nIn the statement, five people are mentioned who lost their lives in prisons in recent weeks and their families are \u201cforced to silence\u201d.
\nRadio Farda<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2666<\/span> Students protest heavy sentences, arrests of students<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nStudents of Science and Technology and Allameh Tabatabei universities held gatherings in protests against heavy sentences and arrests of students. In these gatherings, students emphasized on their own support for students. Some students protested against this issue by holding placards.
\nTehran revolutionary court has issued heavy sentences of imprisonment for 3 students who were arrested after widespread protests all over Iran against the regime during December 2017. Two of them have also been banned from leaving the country.
\nILNA<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2666 <\/span>Zarif: the U.S. cannot set conditions for us<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nIranian FM Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote in his Twitter, \u201cI told Hamid Mir (Pakistani journalist) that America is in no position to set conditions for the JCPOA. Trump is used to being unpredictable, and he is not trustworthy for whoever deals with him. If the U.S. signature is valid only for 4 to 8 years, then no one will be willing to have agreements with the White House.\u201d
\nArman Emrouz<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2666<\/span> The murder of the brother of Mahshahr Friday Prayer Imam<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nTwo masked motorcyclists shot brother of Mahshahr\u2019s Friday Prayer Imam and escaped. According to Mashahr\u2019s governor, on Monday night two motorcyclists who had covered their faces had gone to a shop with hunting guns and started shooting, in which brother of Mahshahr Friday Prayer Imam was shot with two bullets. He later died in the hospital.
\nEarly investigations show that the murderers had come from surrounding towns.
\nIran<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2666<\/span> BBC asks UN to help stop the persecution of staff by Iran<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nIn meeting on Iran in United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, BBC news network called for international support for its employees in BBC Persian who are being persecuted by Iranian officials.
\nTony Hall, Director-General of the BBC, has said in a statement about this \u201cunprecedented\u201d measure that \u201cBBC is asking help from UN because Iranian officials have paid no attention to efforts of this news network to convince them to stop this persecution.\u201d
\nPersecutions of BBC Persian\u2019s employees include: \u201cpersecuting and arresting the family members\u201d, \u201cpressure for cooperation and espionage for Iran\u201d, \u201cpreventing their families from traveling\u201d, and \u201cconfiscation of their properties\u201d.
\nIn his statement, Tony Hall writes: \u201cThis issue isn\u2019t just related to BBC, as it is not the only media that is being persecuted due to working on Iran,\u201d adding that \u201cin fact, this issue goes beyond and is a story about essential human rights.\u201d
\nBBC Persian<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2666<\/span> Zarif: Iran, Pakistan stood side by side in tough times<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nIranian FM Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a gathering of Iranians and staff of Iranian embassy in Pakistan that \u201cthis year we are celebrating 70 years of relationship with Pakistan, and Iran was the first country to recognize Pakistan.\u201d He added that \u201cIran and Pakistan have been beside each other in tough times, and this makes our responsibilities heavier.\u201d
\nZarif urged that during past two years the relationship between Iran and Pakistan has had a significant increase, and there has been \u201cunprecedented cooperation\u201d in political, economic and security issues.
\nBorna news<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2666 Iran\u2019s oil price passes $63 per barrel<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nThe price of Iran\u2019s crude oil increased in March, passing $63 per barrel. The average price of Iran\u2019s light oil reached $63.18 per barrel, with 79 cents increase. The average price of Iran\u2019s heavy oil has been $63.96 per barrel since the beginning of this year.
\nAbrar Eghtesadi<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2666<\/span> 28% increase in the budget deficit<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nAccording to statistics of Iranian Central Bank, the annual budget had 75 thousand and 700 billion tomans deficit for the first 10 months of this Iranian year, showing 28% increase compared to the same period last year.
\nThe Central Bank\u2019s statistics show that the government has had 109 thousand and 810 billion tomans revenue in the first 10 months, of which 79 thousand and 770 billion tomans were from tax revenue and 30 thousand and 400 billion tomans from other revenues.
\nAbrar Eghtesadi<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2666<\/span> The Netherlands to build a shipyard in Anzali<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nThe cooperation agreement was signed in shipbuilding industry between Anzali Free Zone Organization and the Dutch consortium consisting of foreign investors. The CEO of investment consortium Jacobs A. Seawells pointed out to last year\u2019s trip to the region and the resolve of the organization in creating port infrastructure saying that \u201cimmediately after signing the agreement, we will start engineering, technological and repairing tasks.\u201d He added that given the good geographical position of the port and its being in the north-south corridor, it can be predicted that \u201cwe will witness a lot of trafficking of big ships in the Caspian port, and this increased our interest in investing in this port complex.\u201d
\nAbrar Eghtesadi<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2666<\/span> $37.2 billion trade between Iran and China<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nDeputy head of Iran-China Chamber of Commerce said that the trade between Iran and China in last year was $37.2 billion. Majid Hariri pointed out that the total import from China was about $18 billion, urging that it had 27% growth compared to the year before. He added that there was 18% increase in export compared to the year before as well. According to Hariri, China is the biggest market for Iran\u2019s non-oil import and export.
\nTejarat<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2666<\/span> More than 1000 obvious female addicts in Tehran<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nPolice Chief in fighting drugs in Tehran Major Mohammad Bakhshandeh said there are more than 1000 obvious female addicts in Tehran, adding that in past two months about 150 obvious female addicts have been rounded up from streets.
\nArman Emrouz<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2666<\/span> The clash between Basij forces and protesting students in Amir Kabir University campus<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nA group of students from Amir Kabir University gathered in the university campus in protest to arresting students in December demonstrations against the Iranian regime. The students protested against \u201cheavy sentences and arrests\u201d of their classmate in recent widespread protests.
\nPublished images in social networks show that a number of Basiji forces of Amir Kabir University clashed with the students. An eyewitness told BBC Persian that protesting students had pictures of their arrested classmates in hands, adding that after \u201ckicking one of the protesting girls who was standing on a platform, the clashes between the two sides were intensified.\u201d
\nThe demonstrators asked Hassan Rouhani\u2019s government to seriously follow up the judiciary cases of those who have been arrested. Some students chanted slogans such as \u201cHigh prices and embezzlement are our today\u2019s sedition\u201d.
\nBBC Persian<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2666<\/span> Iranian military delegation entered Qatar<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nA delegation from armed forces of Iran entered Doha, Qatar for taking part in the forum of commanders of naval forces in West Asia. This delegation, headed by General Alireza Tangsiri, deputy commander of IRGC naval forces, will also visit the 6th Doha International Maritime Defense Exhibition (Dimdex 2018).
\nYoung Journalists Club<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2666<\/span> Iranian ambassador to Britain threatened to death<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nHamid Baeedinejad, the Iranian ambassador to London, has been threatened to death by supporters of Shiite Grand Ayatollah Sadegh Shirazi. Baeedinejad wrote in his Twitter account that \u201cHossein Marashi Qazvini of the Shirazi cult has made some allegations against him and has threatened to kill him.\u201d
\nEsfahan Emrouz<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2666<\/span> 40 more lawmakers in Iranian Parliament<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nMember of Councils Commission in the Parliament announced adding 40 lawmakers to the current number of MPs in the 11th parliament. Ahmad Amirabadi Farahani said in the meeting of this commission this issue and the number of lawmakers has discussed province by province, and eventually, it was ratified to add 40 lawmakers to the current number of MPs.
\nArman Emrouz<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2666 Ghassemi: Iran knows nothing about Levinson’s destiny<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nOn the 11th anniversary of the disappearance of Robert Levinson from Kish Island, Iran, FBI issued a statement, calling for his return. In reaction to this statement, Iranian spokesperson of foreign ministry Bahram Ghassemi said that Iran has repeatedly announced that this person had traveled to Iran at some point and then left Iran, urging that Iran has no information about his destiny ever since.
\nRobert Levinson, a former FBI agent, disappeared 11 years ago while visiting Kish Island, southern Iran. There are unconfirmed reports saying that he has died while in custody. Nonetheless, there are also reports insisting that he is still alive and kept somewhere in eastern Iran, near Afghanistan border.
\nISNA<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2666<\/span> Lawmaker: We have no exact statistics about detained dervishes<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nMohammad Javad Kolivand, head of Council Commission in the Parliament, said committee for probing the events of Pasdaran Avenue in which Gonabadi dervishes clashed with policemen is going to obtain exact statistics regarding the number of those who were possibly killed and everything that took place. As for the number of those who are still in custody, Kolivand said at that time 300 people were detained, but later some were released; there are no exact statistics about those who are still detained.
\nDuring the dervishes\u2019 clash with policemen, 5 security forces were killed. Many dervishes were arrested, some of whom died after the arrest, including Mohammad Raji, a war veteran, who was among the detained dervishes.
\nArman Emrouz <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2666<\/span> Telecommunication Minister: Unfiltering YouTube, Twitter requires a decision of 3 branches<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nIranian Telecommunication Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said unfaltering YouTube and Twitter needs decision of the 3 branches of the establishment, and Supreme Council of Cyberspace makes the final decision in this regard. Azari Jahromi added unfaltering internet services such as YouTube and Twitter is not directly the responsibility of telecommunication ministry, and this ministry has only one vote in filtering committee.
\nBahar<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2666<\/span> Summoning Tehran mayor by the judiciary<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Following a ceremony in Milad Tower in Tehran on the occasion of Women\u2019s Day in which little girls danced in the presence of men, Tehran Prosecutor announced launching a case in this regard saying that Tehran Mayor Mohammad Ali Najafi and other people involved in this ceremony were summoned and the mayor was questioned. Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi called this ceremony \u201cobscene\u201d.
\nFars news agency<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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