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Young Iranians Flood onto The Streets on Wednesday
High school students in Iran strongly objected to the regime’s decision to take in-person exams despite a fourth wave and an ever-increasing Covid-19 death toll throughout the country. Reports indicate that Tehran, Isfahan, Ardabil, Birjand, Borujerd, Semnan, Ahvaz, Tabriz, Shiraz, Khorramabad, Zanjan, Share Kord, Fulad Shahr, Qazvin, Karaj, and Yazd were among the cities where the new generation showed the Iranian regime it can’t take anything for granted.
May 5 – Tehran, #Iran
A gathering by high school students in the capital in protest to in-person exams. #IranProtests pic.twitter.com/tuRYLWE50i— Iran News Wire (@IranNW) May 5, 2021
May 5 – Birjand, E #Iran
High school students gathered today in Birjand outside the Education Dept. to protest in-person exams.
"Online classes! Online exams!" they chant. #IranProtests pic.twitter.com/5ccJDGV9jN— Iran News Wire (@IranNW) May 5, 2021
May 5 – Khorramabad, W #Iran
High school students gathered today in another city in Lorestan Province to protest in-person exams.
"We don't want in-person exams!" they chant.#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/3zXBcQ8Ap9— Iran News Wire (@IranNW) May 5, 2021
UPDATE: 7:00 PM CEST
Iran –1,112 Families Of MEK Martyrs Urge The UN To Prevent The Destruction Of Their Loved Ones’ Graves
On Tuesday, May 4, 2021, in a letter to the United Nations Secretary-General, EU leaders, and the President and officials in the United States, 1,112 families of the martyrs of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), urged them to take immediate action to prevent further destruction of their relatives’ graves by the religious fascism ruling Iran. For years, the clerical regime has been systematically and gradually destroying the graves of political executions in Tehran and other cities as part of an anti-human and criminal policy to eliminate the traces of its crimes against humanity.
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When the Iranian people’s Call-for-Justice movement for the massacare of 1988 compels these criminals to go public with the dossier of this atrocious crime, which is the day when the rule of Velayat-e Faqih (absolute clerical rule) will end. #1988Massacre #Khavaran pic.twitter.com/VcE6Rz6tAp
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) May 3, 2021
Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll in 541 Cities Exceeds 277,000
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) announced on Tuesday, May 4, 2021, that the Coronavirus death toll in 541 cities had exceeded 277,000. The number of victims in Tehran has reached 63,821, Isfahan 18,180, Khorasan Razavi 17,205, Khuzestan 16,949, Mazandaran 11,480, East Azerbaijan 11,328, West Azerbaijan 10,318, Gilan 9,606, Qom 9,300, Fars 8,664, Alborz 7,328, Golestan 6,920, Sistan and Baluchestan 6,351, Hamedan 6,258, Kerman 6,244, Central Province 5,778, Kermanshah 5,539, North Khorasan 4,108, Ardabil 3,507, Zanjan 3,050, Ilam 2,851, and South Khorasan 2,721.
#Iran Coronavirus Update
More than 277,000 people have died of the novel #coronavirus in 541 cities checkered across all of Iran's 31 provinces, according to the Iranian opposition PMOI/MEK.
Full Reporthttps://t.co/kpM8GgLkML pic.twitter.com/pyGwx97uoW
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) May 5, 2021
Behind the Iran Headlines
Briefing by Alireza Jafarzadeh, Deputy Director, U.S. Representative Office National Council of Resistance
Zarif has acted as both a terror collaborator & minister of foreign propaganda for #Iran's theocracy, the leaked audio tape shows. Since 2015 Iran nuclear deal, seven Iranian diplomats have been expelled from Europe & one sentenced to 20 yrs for terrorism.pic.twitter.com/QMJ9RWT39v
— Alireza Jafarzadeh (@A_Jafarzadeh) May 5, 2021
Dozens Of Former UN Officials Call For Inquiry Into 1988 Iran Massacre
Dozens of human rights experts, including former United Nations officials, in a Tuesday letter called on the UN to open an inquiry into a series of killings of Iranian political dissidents by Iran’s government in 1988.
An open letter signed by more than 150 international legal and human rights experts, including former UN High Commissioner Mary Robinson and former deputy UN Secretary-General Mark Malloch-Brown, urges the “establishment of an international investigation” looking into the killings of followers of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran which occurred throughout 1988 on an order from Iran’s then-supreme leader.
Iran’s people have cast their vote in the upcoming elections
In a society whose main characteristic is the domination of a misogynist system and whose first-line victims are women and workers, the system’s legitimacy should be studied with the perspective and selection of these first two victims.
May 1 was one of the most important days for measuring the votes of Iranian workers. Surprisingly, despite the spread of the fourth wave of the Covid-19 in Iran, workers took to the streets in more than 20 cities and cast their early vote on the regime’s upcoming presidential elections, scheduled for June 18. Their message was clear in their slogans: “We will not vote, we’ve heard too many lies.”
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Iran news in brief, May 5, 2021
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