What Happened: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi issued a decree appointing Mohammed Eslami the new head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, replacing veteran nuclear scientist Ali Akbar Salehi, the Tehran Times reported Aug. 29.
The Islamic Republic of Iran and Azerbaijan will connect their highways and railways.
According to the “Azerbaijan Press Agency” (“Azəri Press Agentliyi” - APA), the Minister of Roads and Urban Development - Mohammad Eslami, stated this in an interview with journalists during his visit to Astara today.
According to the Iranian minister, an agreement has already been reached on connecting the two highways.
If fuel consumption rises, Tehran could become a gas importer. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said this, Trend.az news agency reports, according to “ТАСС”.
“If fuel consumption continues to rise, we will become gasoline importers again in a year”, the presidents press service quoted him saying. According to Rouhani, “in order to preserve our ability to supply ourselves and to control our gasoline consumption, a plan was implemented to introduce quotas and to increase fuel prices”.
According to Amnesty International, at least 106 people have been killed in 21 cities of Iran in a brutal crackdown on the protests, which take place already several days.
Referring to “unofficial news reports from various sources”, the BBC reports that some 200 people have been killed in the country in the last five days and three thousand have been injured.
Iran's supreme leader backed Sunday a government decision to increase fuel prices which sparked deadly protests over the weekend.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei blamed "thugs" for damaging property in protests that left at least two people dead. His comments come as the government shut off internet across Iran in an attempt to quell protests over the raising of government-set gasoline prices by 50%.
Protests broke out throughout Iran Saturday after the government moved to effectively hike the price of gasoline by 50 percent overnight.
Angry protesters parked cars in the streets to block traffic in more than a dozen cities, and crowds numbering in the thousands marched throughout the country, many chanting, “Down with the dictator” and other anti-government slogans.
Some shouted, “The enemy is here!” a reference to the government’s continued vilification of the US.
