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Iran News in Brief – May 29, 2021

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UPDATE: 6:00 PM CEST

Iranians Protest on Saturday

On Saturday, Iranians in different provinces and cities took to the streets to cry for their most basic rights. According to reports from inside Iran, farmers in Ahvaz, workers in Bukan, college students and teachers in Tehran, workers in Mahshahr, as well as hospital staff in Karaj were among the protesting groups today.


UPDATE: 8:00 AM CEST

Iran: The Staggering Coronavirus Death Toll in 543 Cities Exceeds 300,000

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The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) announced on Friday, May 28, 2021, that the catastrophic COVID-19 death toll in 543 cities had exceeded 300,000. The number of victims in Tehran has reached 70,256, Isfahan 20,010, Khuzestan 18,744, Khorasan Razavi 18,265, East Azerbaijan 12,313, Lorestan 12,080, Mazandaran 12,065, West Azerbaijan 11,278, Gilan 10,091, Fars 9,967, Qom 9,615, Alborz 8,408, Golestan 7,295, Sistan and Baluchestan 6,896, Kerman 6,718, Hamedan 6,648, Central Province 6,248, Kermanshah 5,883, Kurdistan 5,147, Semnan 5,125, Yazd 5,057,North Khorasan 4,328, Ardabil 3,750, Hormozgan 3,640, Qazvin 3,444, Zanjan 3,280, Ilam 3,146, Bushehr 3,109, South Khorasan 2,776, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari 2,460, and Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad 2,339.

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Iran: The Staggering Coronavirus Death Toll in 543 Cities Exceeds 300,000

Maryam Rajavi's statement on Coronavirus death toll at 300,000

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), expressed her condolences and sympathy to the bereaved families of the Coronavirus victims and wished a speedy recovery for those infected with the virus. She said Iran under the rule of the mullahs has the highest Coronavirus death toll per Capita worldwide.

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Iran: Protests in Several Cities Over Economic Grievances as Elections Near

Protests in different Iranian cities

State-run media in Iran are warning about an all-time low voter turnout in the upcoming presidential election, a lot of which has to do with the continuously declining living conditions of the Iranian people. On Thursday, the state-run Keyhan newspaper ran a piece titled, “If you cared about election participation, you wouldn’t have created poultry queues,” referring to people standing in lines for hours to get basic goods for their families. Keyhan referred to the extremely poor performance of the government and wrote, “The president is trying to lay the blame for low voter turnout on other institutions, but its own poor performance in the eight past years in improving the economic conditions, and the decline of the national currency to an eighth of its value will have a direct effect on the people’s participation in the election.”

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Police Kill 3 Civilians in South and West Iran

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A Kurd border porter or “kolbar” was killed on May 26 by the police in Sarpol Zahab, western Iran. According to the Human Rights News Agency, the man was identified as 28-year-old Ghobad Rahmani.

Ghobad was a kolbar, which has become a prominent occupation for many in Iran’s western cities bordering Iraq and Turkey. Kolbars are hired to carry heavy loads across the border for meager pay. Due to the lack of economic development, increasing poverty and unemployment in western Iran, more and more Iranian Kurds are forced to take up this dangerous and harsh occupation. The regime categorizes kolbars as “smugglers” and routinely shoots and kills them.

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Iran News in Brief, May 29, 2021

Iran news in brief, May 29, 2021


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