{"id":26552,"date":"2018-12-22T13:22:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T13:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26552"},"modified":"2018-12-22T13:22:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T13:22:53","slug":"irans-guard-launches-drill-near-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26552","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Guard launches drill near Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"44\">\n<p>\nDUBAI: Iran on Saturday executed a businessman sentenced to death by a fast-track court set up to fight economic crimes, state television reported, following an outcry against profiteering and corruption that has seen dozens of people jailed.<br \/>The new Islamic revolutionary courts \u2014 whose rulings cannot be appealed, except in the case of death sentences \u2014 were set up in August after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for \u201cswift and just\u201d action to confront an \u201ceconomic war\u201d by foreign enemies after the United States reimposed sanctions.<br \/>Hamidreza Baqeri-Dermani had been convicted of \u201cspreading corruption on earth,\u201d a capital offense under Iran\u2019s Islamic laws, for offenses including bribery and fraud, the television said.<br \/>His death sentence was upheld by the supreme court this month.<br \/>Iran executed two traders for economic crimes in November in an effort to stem financial misconduct in the face of an economic crisis and US sanctions, reimposed after President Donald Trump withdrew from a 2015 international accord over Iran\u2019s nuclear program.<br \/>The special courts have jailed dozens of businessmen and traders for up to 20 years.<br \/>The rial currency\u2019s weakness earlier this year disrupted foreign trade and helped boost annual inflation fourfold to nearly 40 percent in November.<br \/>The weak currency has sparked sporadic street protests since late last year.<br \/>Iranian economists have said the campaign against economic crime, combined with an order from Ayatollah Khamenei this month to strengthen the rial, have made many traders more wary of bidding the currency lower.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Iran on Saturday executed a businessman sentenced to death by a fast-track court set up to fight economic crimes, state television reported, following an outcry against profiteering and corruption that has seen dozens of people jailed.The new Islamic revolutionary courts \u2014 whose rulings cannot be appealed, except in the case of death sentences \u2014&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}