{"id":214531,"date":"2020-03-21T07:27:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T07:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=214531"},"modified":"2023-04-17T14:14:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T13:14:39","slug":"latest-news-in-brief-march-21-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/latest-news-in-brief-march-21-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest News in Brief \u2013 March 21, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_214532\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-214532\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-214532\" title=\"Iran-coronavirus5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Iran-coronavirus5.jpg\" alt=\"March 21, 2020: Latest News\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Iran-coronavirus5.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Iran-coronavirus5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Iran-coronavirus5-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Iran-coronavirus5-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Iran-coronavirus5-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-214532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">March 21, 2020: Latest News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>THE CONTENT OF THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: 10:45 PM CET<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Over 8,800 people across 201 cities in Iran<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>are dead of coronavirus, per Iranian opposition PMOI\/MEK<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>-More than 1,300 dead in Qom, 60 to 70 dying daily -At least 1,250 coronavirus victims buried in Tehran&#8217;s Behesht-e Zahra cemetery<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Over 8,800 people across 201 cities in Iran are dead of coronavirus, per Iranian opposition PMOI\/MEK.<\/p>\n<p>-More than 1,300 dead in Qom, 60 to 70 dying daily<br \/>-At least 1,250 coronavirus victims buried in Tehran&#39;s Behesht-e Zahra cemetery<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID%E3%83%BC19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID\u30fc19<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kyO0pPvNCH\">https:\/\/t.co\/kyO0pPvNCH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; People&#39;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1241413512502456321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>***<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: 5:45 PM CET<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\"><strong>Coronavirus outbreak in Iran: Quarantine or Martial law<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div id=\"info\" class=\"style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\">Mar 21, 2020\u2014While other countries use their armed forces to help people, the Iranian regime has imposed martial law amid the coronavirus outbreak in Iran.<\/div>\n<div class=\"style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\">The regime intends to prepare itself to suppress protests and people\u2019s outrage against its inaction and cover-up in spreading the coronavirus and to spread terror in the society. The Iranian regime\u2019s failure and refusal to control the virus and quarantine cities expedited the spread of the coronavirus. Yet, the regime\u2019s president, Hassan Rouhani, blatantly said: \u201cWe have no such thing as quarantine. There won\u2019t be any quarantine neither today nor during Nowruz (Persian new year); neither before, nor after.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h3>***<\/h3>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: 5:15 PM CET<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Some Videos Released by the PMOI\/MEK About the Coronavirus Outbreak in Iran<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\"><strong>Youth in Yasuj, Iran, block entrance to city amid coronavirus outbreak<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\"><strong>Iranian girl donates her birthday money to help people during coronavirus outbreak<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div id=\"info\" class=\"style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\"><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\"><strong>Youth quarantine Babol city amid Iran coronavirus outbreak<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div id=\"info\" class=\"style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3 class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\"><strong>People in Zahedan face harsh conditions during Iran&#8217;s coronavirus crisis<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\"><strong>Iran coronavirus outbreak news: Volunteers distribute masks as regime inaction continues<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div id=\"info\" class=\"style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"info\" class=\"style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: 10:15 AM CET<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Video:Maryam Rajavi\u2019s New Year Message: Happy Nowruz- Tribute to martyrs of November 2019 uprising<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div id=\"info\" class=\"style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\">On the New Persian Year 1399, in a video message to the people of Iran, Maryam Rajavi congratulated the people of Iran, saying, \u201cOn behalf of the Iranian Resistance, its members and all Mojahedin at Ashraf-3, I extend our sincere condolences and sympathies to families who have lost their loved ones on the eve of the New Year.\u201d \u201cCongratulations on the beginning of 1399, Nowruz, in tribute to the martyrs of the November 2019 uprising. And we congratulate the Resistance Units and selfless women and men who have risen up against this pandemic disease amid the Iranian nation\u2019s fateful struggle against the ruling theocracy.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: 9:00 AM CET<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Maryam Rajavi: Congratulations on the Advent of Nowruz<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"Maryam-Rajavis-New-Year-Message-120_4d9e483a7e66413f8fe572b36b6551ac\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maryam-rajavi.com\/en\/media\/zoo\/images\/Maryam-Rajavis-New-Year-Message-120_4d9e483a7e66413f8fe572b36b6551ac.jpg\" alt=\"Maryam Rajavi :Congratulations on the advent of Nowruz, in tribute to the martyrs of the November 2019 uprising who propelled the Iranian people\u2019s fateful struggle to overthrow the mullahs\u2019 regime\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>Maryam Rajavi: Congratulations on the advent of Nowruz, in tribute to the martyrs of the November 2019 uprising who propelled the Iranian people\u2019s fateful struggle to overthrow the mullahs\u2019 regime<\/h3>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/maryam-rajavi-congratulations-on-the-advent-of-nowruz\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">There is a single solution for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Coronavirus<\/a>, for poverty, for oppression and tyranny. That solution is overthrowing the mullahs\u2019 religious dictatorship in its entirety. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FreeIran2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreeIran2020<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Nowruz?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Nowruz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4tTkRpPdwH\">https:\/\/t.co\/4tTkRpPdwH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OftoxSNywh\">pic.twitter.com\/OftoxSNywh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maryam_Rajavi\/status\/1241048470829621249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In their quest for the spring of freedom, the people of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> sent their vanguards to the battle field in November. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Nowruz?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Nowruz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4tTkRpPdwH\">https:\/\/t.co\/4tTkRpPdwH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7xs9yd7QBt\">pic.twitter.com\/7xs9yd7QBt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maryam_Rajavi\/status\/1241048465691619328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: 8:30 AM CET<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title td-module-title\"><strong>Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll Reaches 8,200 in 200 Cities<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"Cronavirus_NCRI\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Cronavirus_NCRI.jpg\" alt=\"Shops closed in Bazar dueto coronavirus\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\/\" rel=\"noopener\">People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran<\/a>\u00a0(PMOI \/ MEK) announced this afternoon, March 20, 2020, that the number of Coronavirus fatalities has exceeded, 8,200 in 200 cities across Iran. The number of victims in Tehran is at least 1,300, in Khorasan Razavi 800, in Isfahan 660, in West Azerbaijan 350, Kermanshah 240, and in Fars 200.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-human-rights\/iran-coronavirus-death-toll-reaches-8200-in-200-cities\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: 8:00 AM CET<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title td-module-title\"><strong>Iran is Using Coronavirus as a Weapon Against Political Prisoners<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"Iran_is_Using_Coronavirus_as_a_Weapon_Against_Political_Prisoners-NCRI\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Iran_is_Using_Coronavirus_as_a_Weapon_Against_Political_Prisoners-NCRI.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was recently reported that a number of political prisoners in Iran had gone on\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/iran-coronavirus-political-prisoners-hunger-strike-20200318\" rel=\"noopener\">hunger strike<\/a>\u00a0in order to protest their continued, arbitrary detention during a coronavirus epidemic that has potentially infected a million Iranians since the start of the year. The hunger strikes represent the continuation of activist pressure that began last month with letters from the families of various political prisoners, urging the judiciary to grant them furlough in order to limit the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/iran-is-using-coronavirus-as-a-weapon-against-political-prisoners\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>***<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"post_title\"><strong>Rouhani kick-starts the \u201cimaginary\u201d 2020 budget<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Iranian regime\u2019s president Hassan Rouhani announced the new 2020 budget to all regime organs on Thursday, a day before the Persian new year. This is while many experts, regime officials, and state-run media have criticized the budget for being full of ambiguities, which was the cause of a new crisis in the regime during the previous months.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/iran-2020-budget-20200320\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;&#8230; many experts, regime officials, and state-run media have criticized the budget for being full of ambiguities, which was the cause of a new crisis in the regime during the previous months.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RKEOUkBk1B\">https:\/\/t.co\/RKEOUkBk1B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 People&#8217;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1241112094478438400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>***<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\"><strong>Iran news in brief, March 21, 2020<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div id=\"info\" class=\"style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\">Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll Reaches 8,200 in 200 Cities<\/div>\n<div>Maryam Rajavi: Congratulations on the Advent of Nowruz<\/div>\n<div>Iran&#8217;s Regime Sentences Another November Protester to Death<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><strong>******<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-protests-2019\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WHAT ARE THE IRAN PROTESTS OF 2019?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, March 21, 2020, marks the 128<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0day since the beginning of the nationwide Iran protests.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\" rel=\"noopener\">People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK)<\/a>\u00a0has identified 755 of the more than 1500 protesters killed by the regime so far.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs.\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/maryam-rajavi\/14237-maryam-rajavi\" rel=\"noopener\">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>:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/77-news1613067580\/latest-news-in-brief-march-20-2020\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Latest News in Brief- March 20, 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE CONTENT OF THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS UPDATE: 10:45 PM CET Over 8,800 people across 201 cities in Iran are dead of coronavirus, per Iranian [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":214271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[186],"class_list":{"0":"post-214531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-coronavirus"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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