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Stock market investors protest in Tehran
Feb. 2 – Tehran, #Iran
Stock market investors who lost their savings were banned from gathering outside the Securities & Exchange Org & instead gathered in nearby streets. The regime misled them into investing & stole and used their money for budget deficits. #IranProtests pic.twitter.com/XUGLwejuUA— Iran News Wire (@IranNW) February 2, 2021
Iran: Jailed Iranian Kurdish Woman Tortured: Zeynab Jalalian
Amnesty International: Ministry of Intelligence agents are torturing Iranian Kurdish woman Zeynab Jalalian by deliberately denying her health care to coerce her into providing a videotaped “confession”. This intentional denial of health care is causing her severe pain and suffering, particularly as she has serious medical conditions, including post-Covid-19 breathing difficulty.
Ministry of intelligence agents in Iran are torturing unjustly jailed Iranian Kurdish woman #ZeynabJalalian by deliberately denying her health care to coerce her into making a videotaped “confession”. RT and urge @khamenei_ir to release her! https://t.co/qIdvo9Cyud pic.twitter.com/vQrq3g36qn
— Amnesty Iran (@AmnestyIran) February 2, 2021
UPDATE: 9:30 AM CET
Live stream on February 4
A First by A European Court: Iran Regime Diplomat-terrorist, Conviction of 3 Intelligence Agents
Time for Accountability & Firm Iran Policy
LIVE STREAM
A First by A European Court:
Iran Regime Diplomat-Terrorist to Be Sentenced
Time for Accountability, Firm Policy
February 4, 2021
0900 CEST#EUTime4FirmIranPolicy #Iran#ShutDownIranTerrorEmbassieshttps://t.co/DiQJZAG45f pic.twitter.com/MYV2T4lgea— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) February 2, 2021
Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll in 480 Cities Exceeds 209,700
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) announced on Monday, February 1, 2021, that the Coronavirus death toll in 480 cities had exceeded 209,700. The number of victims in Tehran is 50,621, Isfahan 13,335, Khuzestan 10,430, Mazandaran 8,587, Qom 8,105, East Azerbaijan 7,978, Fars 6,342, Golestan 5,384, Sistan and Baluchestan 5,041, Hamedan 4,943, Kerman 4,654, Central Province 4,263, North Khorasan 3,238, Semnan 3,110, and Qazvin 2,274.
#Iran Coronavirus Update
More than 209,700 people have died of the novel #coronavirus in 480 cities checkered across all of Iran's 31 provinces, according to the Iranian opposition PMOI/MEK.
Full Reporthttps://t.co/e3AvKaFYFp pic.twitter.com/3JfPlJsFUO
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) February 1, 2021
New wave of arrests in Iranian Kurdistan
A new wave of arrests began in Iranian Kurdistan. Security forces arrested three Kurdish citizens in past days.
Mahmoud Mahmoudi, a journalist, was arrested on January 30, and the Intelligence agents took him to an undisclosed location. Mr. Mahmoudi comes from Sanandaj. He signed a letter by civil activists to free those recently arrested in Kurdistan.
Two other Kurdish citizens were arrested also on January 30, and the security forces took them to an undisclosed location. Vahed Sheikh Mohammadi is from Aliabad village and Fardin Bayazidi is from Oshnavieh. No reason has been presented for their arrests.
Iranian spy arrested by FBI was wolf in sheep’s clothing
When the FBI arrested Kaveh Lotfolah Afrasiabi, a prominent political scientist and self-styled expert on Iran, it should have sent shockwaves through Western media circles.
Afrasiabi had spent the past 13 years proclaiming the virtues of the Islamic Republic to U.S. lawmakers and media outlets. He was a skilled and trusted lobbyist, at least until the FBI uncovered the fact that he had been paid more than $265,000 through Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, in flagrant breach of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. A press release from the U.S. Justice Department set out the charges now faced by Afrasiabi for “conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
Abbas Dehghan sentenced to jail, flogging and payment of reparation
A Gonabadi Dervish, Abbas Dehghan, has received a prison sentence, in addition to flogging and payment of blood money. He is presently detained in the Greater Tehran Penitentiary (GTP).
Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran sentenced Abbas Dehghan to five years in prison on the charge of “assembly and collusion against national security.” Then, Branch 1146 of the Penal Court sentenced him to one year in prison plus 74 lashes for “disruption of public order,” to six months in jail on the charge of “insulting government agents,” to two years’ imprisonment and payment of 140 million Tomans in reparation on the charge of “beating and injuring members of the IRGC Bassij,” and to three years in prison for alleged “starting to kill a member of the IRGC Bassij.”
Iranians Continue Protests; at Least Four Rallies and Strikes on January 31
On Sunday, January 31, different classes of Iran’s society held rallies in front of the Parliament (Majlis) and other administrative offices, protesting officials’ failure to resolve their dilemmas. In this respect, Iranians held at least four rallies and strikes in different areas.
Iran news in brief, February 2, 2021
Read more: Iran News in Brief – February 1, 2021