Radiofarda – The United States is likely to extend waivers from sanctions on Iranian oil imports in May but will reduce the number of countries receiving them to placate top buyers China and India and to decrease the chance of higher oil prices, analysts said.

Al-Arabia – Fuel is being shipped illegally from Iran to Houthi militias in Yemen to finance their war against the government, according to a report by a UN panel of experts seen by AFP.

Iran-HRM – Iran’s unemployment rate indicates university graduates are the biggest unemployed population in the country. The number of unemployed graduates in the fall of 2018 increased from 37 percent to 40 percent.

Iran-HRM – Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British woman imprisoned in Tehran on espionage charges, started a hunger strike in protest against being denied access to medical care as well as pressure from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard interrogators to spy on UK for the Iranian regime.

RFL/RE – A U.S.-born Iranian television anchor who has been jailed in the United States has not been accused of any crime, according to federal court documents.

RFL/RE – Iran’s chief prosecutor has tried to walk back his own suggestion that the country’s courts sometimes avoid amputations or controversial punishments when sentencing criminals due to UN human rights criticisms.

VOA – Israel has been conducting military operations against Iran on Syrian soil for more than two years.

HRANA – The following is an overview of human rights violations in Iran on January 18th, 2019 based on the information compiled and verified by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).

CHRI -Iranian satirist Keyomars Marzban, who has been detained in Iran since August 2018, is due to face trial for the charges of “propaganda against the state” and “insulting the sacred” at Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran presided by Judge Abolqasem Salavati.

CHRI – Defense attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh continues to be denied family visits in Iran’s Evin Prison where she has been held on trumped-up national security charges since June 2018, this time under the pretense of having a “small scissor” in her cell, which is allowed in the prison’s Women’s Ward.