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UPDATE: 6:45 PM CEST
Iran: Coronavirus Update, Over 90,100 Deaths, Aug 17, 2020, 6:00 PM
NUMBER OF VICTIMS (AS OF Aug 17, 2020, 6:00 PM CEST):
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK) announced this afternoon, Aug 17, 2020, that Coronavirus has taken the lives of more than 90,100 in 392 cities across Iran. The death toll in various provinces include: 4278 in Mazandaran, 3951 in Isfahan, 3772 in Gilan, 3732 in Lorestan, 2886 in Sistan and Baluchistan,2670 in Alborz, 2543 in Fars, 2304 in Hamedan, 1794 in Kurdestan, 1388 in Kerman, 1189 in Hormozgan,1110 in Bushehr, 725 in Ilam, 510 in Kohgiluyehn and Boyer Ahmad. This is in addition to reports obtained from other provinces.
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UPDATE: 6:30 PM CEST
Workers of the Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Company on Monday, August 17 continue their protests and strike for the 64th day in Shush, Khuzestan province, southwest Iran
Workers of the Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Company on Monday, August 17 continue their protests and strike for the 64th day in Shush, Khuzestan province, southwest Iran.#IranProtests#اعتراضات_سراسری pic.twitter.com/3qFztbAlL0
— People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) August 17, 2020
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MEK network in Iran installs a poster of Maryam Rajavi
The banner read:
Tehran— “The mullahs must go, and the sovereignty belongs to the Iranian people”
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Women and children are the first victims of drought in Khuzestan
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UPDATE: 6:00 PM CEST
Iran Regime Is Unable to Quell Society Despite Taking Criminal Decisions
Officials of Iran’s regime and state media outlets have been growing increasingly worried about the threat that the Iranian people pose the regime’s existence. The clerical regime has been deeply unpopular for its entire existence, but that unpopularity has become uniquely difficult to deny in recent years. There are two basic reasons for this. Firstly, public expressions of dissent reached nearly unprecedented levels of intensity after 2017. And secondly, the conditions of life in Iran have grown worse while Tehran has resisted all changes of policy or behavior that might alleviate the situation. Such as funding terrorist organization and mullahs’ institutionalized corruption.
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Maryam Rajavi: The abnormal surging trend of the number of coronavirus victims in Iran is a product of the criminal policies of Khamenei and Rouhani
The abnormal surging trend of the number of #coronavirus victims in #Iran is a product of the criminal policies of Khamenei and Rouhani. pic.twitter.com/TnCBCiRZEc
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) August 17, 2020
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UPDATE: 3:00 PM CEST
While Mullahs Send Iran’s People to COVID-19 Minefield, They Try Not to Contract Virus Themselves
A glance at the Iranian regime’s approach toward people during the COVID-19 outbreak alone shows how the mullahs are using this virus to achieve their sinister goals. Meanwhile, the mullahs are careful not be infected by this virus.
The Iranian regime’s President Hassan Rouhani refused to go the parliament and accepted the risk of not being able to gather enough votes for his proposed Minister of Industry and Mines. In another development, the regime’s Assembly of Experts postponed its session last week due to the coronavirus outbreak.
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UPDATE: 2:45 PM CEST
Maryam Rajavi: The workers who are on strike, the nurses, teachers, educators, and retirees who hold protests, and courageous women and youth of Iran have risen up for freedom and their most basic rights
The workers who are on strike, the nurses, teachers, educators, and retirees who hold protests, and courageous women and youth of #Iran have risen up for freedom and their most basic rights #FreeIran2020 pic.twitter.com/yzrE4ABfyc
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) August 16, 2020
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Executions, Means to the Mullahs’ Survival
Call on UN for the 1988 Massacre Accountability
Executions, Means to the Mullahs’ Survival
Call on UN for the 1988 Massacre Accountability#1988Massacre #NoImpunity4Mullahshttps://t.co/WcXaZC5l18— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) August 16, 2020
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Iran News on Coronavirus Update–August 16, 2020
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UPDATE: 2:30 PM CEST
The 16th Day of Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Workers and Employees Strike in 23 Cities and 12 Provinces
Strikes and protests by Haft Tappeh sugarcane workers, Arak Hepco and the railway workers
Protest rally of temporary contract teachers in front of the regime parliament
On Sunday, August 16, oil, gas, petrochemical refineries, and power plant workers in 23 cities in 12 provinces continued their strike for the 16th day. Fearing the continuation and spread of the strikes, officials, and contractors, affiliated with IRGC and other regime agencies, have attempted to get workers back to work by making hollow promises to break the nationwide strike. But the workers, maintaining unity and solidarity, insisted on continuing the strike until all their demands were met fully.
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UPDATE: 10:00 AM CEST
Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll in 392 Cities Surpasses 89,600
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK) announced on Sunday, August 16, 2020, that the Coronavirus death toll in 392 cities across Iran had passed 89,600. The number of victims in Tehran is 21,985, Khorasan Razavi 6,475, Khuzestan 6,190, Mazandaran 4,245, Lorestan 3,682, East Azerbaijan 2,566, Golestan 2,525, Hamedan 2,254, Kermanshah 2,170, North Khorasan 1,427, Semnan 1,122, Central Province 1,101, Ardabil 1,053, Yazd 1,040Qazvin 751, and South Khorasan 464.
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The Only Way to End Iran Regime’s Ongoing Human Rights Violations Is Regime Change
Last November, the Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ordered the Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) to “do whatever it takes” to end the nationwide protests that sprang up spontaneously after Tehran announced sudden hikes in the government-set price of gasoline. The result was a series of mass shootings across dozens of Iranian cities.
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Iran news in brief, August 17, 2020
Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll in 392 Cities Surpasses 89,600
Iran: 72 Political Prisoner Go on Hunger Strike Over Coronavirus Fears
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WHAT ARE THE IRAN PROTESTS OF 2019?
Monday, August 17, 2020, marks the 275th day since the beginning of the nationwide Iran protests.
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) has identified 755 of the more than 1500 protesters killed by the regime so far.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has called on the United Nations to urgently send an international fact-finding mission to Iranian prisons to meet with the detainees.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE UPRISING:
Number of uprising cities: 191
Number of martyrs: At least 1500
Number of injured: More than 4,000
Number of detainees: More than 12,000
Read more: Latest News in Brief- August 16, 2020
