{"id":213872,"date":"2020-02-19T07:10:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T07:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncriranlive.wpengine.com\/en\/?p=213872"},"modified":"2023-04-26T14:30:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T13:30:26","slug":"latest-news-in-brief-february-19-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/latest-news-in-brief\/latest-news-in-brief-february-19-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest News in Brief &#8211; February 19, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_213873\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-213873\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-213873\" title=\"Latest_News_in_Brief_20_Feb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Latest_News_in_Brief_20_Feb.jpg\" alt=\"reports from Iran obtained by the MEK, confirm there have been several protests in Iran by different society sectors.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Latest_News_in_Brief_20_Feb.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Latest_News_in_Brief_20_Feb-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Latest_News_in_Brief_20_Feb-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Latest_News_in_Brief_20_Feb-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Latest_News_in_Brief_20_Feb-696x392.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-213873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">reports from Iran obtained by the MEK, confirm there have been several protests in Iran by different society sectors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>THE CONTENT OF THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS OF THE IRAN PROTESTS.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Iran Protests:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3>Fear of the Iranian regime enforcing a further round of protests<\/h3>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\" rel=\"noopener\">MEK <\/a>sources reported that on Monday afternoon, February 17, 2020, the Iranian regime stationed a group of anti-riot units in front of \u00a0the Sharif University in Tehran. The Iranian regime is afraid of the forming of another round of protest gathering by the students.<\/p>\n<hr id=\"system-readmore\" \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Latest_News_in_Brief_19_2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Latest_News_in_Brief_19_2.jpg\" alt=\"Latest_News_in_Brief_19_2\" width=\"435\" height=\"327\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth mentioning that yesterday students of Amirkabir, Allameh, Science &amp; Technology, and Tehran universities held protest gatherings in the memory of the victims of the last November and January uprisings and also the demise of the Ukrainian airliner.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests<\/a>:Brave students at Amir-Kabir University,protested against the dictatorship in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> &amp;called for the release of political prisoners. Reported by MEK sources.<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/protesters?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#protesters<\/a> chanted:&#8221;IRGC is our killer&#8221;&amp;&#8221;No ballot boxes, no votes, Boycott the election&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FreeIran2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreeIran2020<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a3otsGVDdT\">pic.twitter.com\/a3otsGVDdT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1229084376035713031?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Students chanted: &#8220;Justice and freedom are the nation&#8217;s cry&#8221;, &#8220;political prisoners must be freed&#8221; &#8220;you are both fraudulent and cruel, Shame on this despotism&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Latest_News_in_Brief_19\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Latest_News_in_Brief_19.jpg\" alt=\"Latest_News_in_Brief_19\" width=\"435\" height=\"273\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Protest gathering by the workers<\/h3>\n<p>The MEK network reported that on Tuesday, February 18, 2020, a group of Qazvin Counter Manufacturing Co\u2019s workers held a sit in and protest gathering before Sheikholeslam mosque in the western province of Qazvin. These workers have not been paid for two and half months.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the workers&#8217; sit in and gathering, the Qazvin Governor, Jamalipour, brazenly stated that he wouldn&#8217;t show up to the gathering to answer the workers\u2019 grievances.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Iranian students and merchants protest repression by security forces<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranProtests2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests2020<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sbrQ810F4C\">https:\/\/t.co\/sbrQ810F4C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 People&#8217;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1229889904311599104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Villagers forced out the MP<\/h3>\n<p>Yesterday, social media reported that the inhabitants of Sheik Hassan Village in the southern city of Shoush, forced the regime\u2019s MP, Nouri, out of the village\u2019s mosques. After a conflict between the villagers and the MP\u2019s bodyguards, Nouri had to leave the village.<\/p>\n<h3>Students are being summoned to the university\u2019s disciplinary unit<\/h3>\n<p>Recently, the officials of Shiraz university have summoned some of the students who have been participating in a gathering in the memory of the Ukrainian airliner\u2019s victims. The ceremony was held on February 12<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<h3>Iran Sham Election:<\/h3>\n<h3>Political Prisoners Call For The Boycott of the Sham Parliamentary Election<\/h3>\n<p>In a statement issued by 12 Political Prisoners in Evin Prison, some who are well renowned political prisoners stated that anyone who goes to the polls, it will be like putting their fingers on the trigger of a gun and pointing it towards rebellious youth. This is the confirmation of the status of the ruling system and its crimes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Humanrights?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Humanrights<\/a> News: Maryam Akbari Monfared, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/politicalprisoner?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#politicalprisoner<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EvinPrison?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EvinPrison<\/a> has been denied family visitations. She has been in prison for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/10years?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#10years<\/a> without even a day of prison furlough. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IvEQ5YsX8N\">https:\/\/t.co\/IvEQ5YsX8N<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FreeIran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreeIran<\/a> from repressive mullahs!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NCRI Women&#8217;s Committee (@womenncri) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/womenncri\/status\/1229954797526110208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The people of Iran have cast their real and irrevocable votes during the November 2019 and January 2020 bloody uprisings and by sacrificing their lives and taking to the streets.<\/p>\n<p>This system (regime) and its election rests solely on the blood of millions of innocent youths who were slain during March 1979, summer of 1980, June 1981, and the massacres of the 1980s, especially the massacre in the summer of 1988, the chain murders in the 90s, the bloodshed in Khatun Abad and in Islamshahr and the killing of protesters in 2009; the Kahrizak catastrophes and the mass execution of our Kurdish compatriots in Iranian prisons under the pretext of fighting terrorism; the killing of protesters during the December 2017-January 2018 uprisings and finally the brutal killing of people in November 2019, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Signatures:<\/p>\n<p>Raheleh Ahmadi, Maryam Akbari Monfared, Leila Hosseinzadeh, Soheila Hijab, AtnaDaemi, Sepideh Farhan, Monireh Arab Shahi, Saba Kurd Afshari, Neda Naji and Samaneh Norouz Moradi.<\/p>\n<h3>\u201cReformists at a DeadEnd\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Abdullah Ramazan-Zadeh the former spokesman for the Iranian dictatorship during Mohammad Khatami\u2019s presidency acknowledged that the Iranian people hate all factions of the mullah\u2019s regime.<\/p>\n<p>Ramezan-Zadeh who is known as one of the so called \u201creformists\u201d wrote in the state daily, Etemad: \u201cWhat was the outcome of this November\u2019s events (Iran Protests in more than 191 cities)? The path of reform within the framework of participation in legal institutions has come to a dead end\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">With less than a week to go before Iran\u2019s parliamentary elections, Hassan Rouhani, the regime\u2019s president, held a press briefing on Sunday in which he discussed different critical issues.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BoycottIranShamElections?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BoycottIranShamElections<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V3FA2ixCse\">https:\/\/t.co\/V3FA2ixCse<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 People&#8217;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1229494211747074048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>During the November Iran Protests, the Iranian people took to the streets of Iran chanting, \u201cReformists, Hardliner, the game is over\u201d. The Iranian regime brutally suppressed the protests, killing over 1500 protesters, injuring over 4000, and arresting another 12,000 who \u00a0are still in prisons being tortured and suffering inhumane treatment. The \u201creformists\u201d and \u201chardliners\u201d backed the repressive measures of the regime at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Ramanzan-Zadeh expressing his fear of the Iranian people\u2019s determination for regime change in the face of brutal repression admitted that there are no other means left for the Iranian people to obtain their rights within the legal frame of this regime. He reminded the late Bazargan, the 1<sup>st<\/sup> Prime Minister of Iran after the 1979 revolution, who once during his court hearing at the time of Shah\u2019s dictatorship had told the judge that when you repress us like this, we will be the last group of people that will speak with you in a peaceful manner.<\/p>\n<p>******<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"iran-protests-2019\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WHAT ARE THE IRAN PROTESTS OF 2019?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, February 19, 2020, marks the 97th day since the beginning of the nationwide Iran protests.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"pmoi-mek\" rel=\"noopener\">People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK)<\/a>\u00a0has identified 724 of the more than 1500 protesters killed by the regime so far.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs.\u00a0<a href=\"news\/maryam-rajavi\/14237-maryam-rajavi\">Maryam Rajavi<\/a>\u00a0the President-elect of\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ncr-iran.org\/en\/alternative\" rel=\"noopener\">the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)<\/a>\u00a0has called on the United Nations to urgently send an international fact-finding mission to Iranian prisons to meet with the detainees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HIGHLIGHTS OF THE UPRISING:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Number of uprising cities:\u00a0<strong>191<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Number of martyrs: At least\u00a0<strong>1500<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Number of injured: More than\u00a0<strong>4,000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Number of detainees: More than\u00a0<strong>12,000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more: <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"news\/iran-protests\/27409-latest-news-in-brief-february-18-2020\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Latest News in Brief- February 18 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE CONTENT OF THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS OF THE IRAN PROTESTS. 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