{"id":224627,"date":"2020-08-26T08:18:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T07:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=224627"},"modified":"2023-04-07T10:33:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T09:33:03","slug":"latest-news-in-brief-august-26-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/latest-news-in-brief\/latest-news-in-brief-august-26-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest News in Brief \u2013 August 26, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iran, Tehran – Alireza Zali, head of the National Coronavirus Combat Taskforce (NCCT) in Tehran: The rate of hospital discharge is lower than those hospitalized. 8.2% of outpatients are hospitalized, and 25% of them need intensive care, both of which are significant figures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

THE CONTENT OF THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n

UPDATE: 8:30 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iran: Coronavirus Update, Over 95,000 Deaths, Aug 26, 2020, 6:00 PM
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Iran: Coronavirus Update, Over 95,000 Deaths, Aug 26, 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NUMBER OF VICTIMS (AS OF Aug 26, 2020, 6:00 PM CEST):<\/strong><\/p>\n

The People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI \/ MEK)<\/a>\u00a0announced this afternoon, Aug 26, 2020, that Coronavirus has taken the lives of more than 95,000<\/strong> in 404 cities across Iran. The death toll in various provinces include: 23145 in Tehran, 4568 in Mazandaran, 4251 in Isfahan, 4022 in Lorestan, 3943 in Gilan, 2790 in East Azerbaijan, 2746 in Golestan, 2678 in Fars, 2639 in West Azerbaijan, 2448 in Hamedan, 1909 in Kurdestan, 1504 in North Khorasan, 1227 in Semnan, 1226 in Markazi (Central), 560 in Kohgiluyehn and Boyer Ahmad, 504 in South Khorasan. This is in addition to reports obtained from other provinces.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 6:15 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iraqi Protesters Storm Iran-Backed Terrorist Groups\u2019 Buildings<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Iraq Protests – file photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Following the assassination of several human and social rights activists in Iraq by the Iranian regime\u2019s terrorist proxy groups,\u00a0protesters stormed<\/a>\u00a0several buildings belonging to the Iranian regime\u2019s proxy groups in the southern cities of Iraq. These developments, in Shi\u2019ite provinces where the regime had influence by misusing people\u2019s\u00a0religious sentiments,<\/a>\u00a0are another blow to the regime\u2019s terrorism and warmongering machine.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 5:30 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Live: VIRTUAL BRIEFING ON IRAN: Reimposing UN Sanctions NCRI-US new report, ‘IRAN: The Imperative to Reimpose UN Sanctions,’ to be released<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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VIRTUAL BRIEFING ON IRAN: Reimposing UN Sanctions
\nNCRI-US new report, ‘IRAN: The Imperative to Reimpose UN Sanctions,’ to be released.
\nWed, Aug 26, 2020 – 11 am EDT, 17 pm CEST #IranSanctions<\/a> #UNSC<\/a> #DisbandIRGC<\/a>https:\/\/t.co\/Ee1LQu3Mpr<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) August 26, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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UPDATE: 3:30 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speech by Jean Ziegler in webinar on the 1988 massacre in Iran<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Jean Ziegler, member of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council, on August 22, 2020 addressed a webinar on the 1988 massacre in Iran.
\nSurvivors of Iran’s 1988 massacre of political prisoners, international legal experts, and human rights and political dignitaries held a webinar on August 22, 2020 appealing to the United Nations and its Member States to carry out an independent investigation into the massacre.
\nFollowing a fatwa handed down by the Iranian regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini in mid-July 1988, \u2018Death Commissions\u2019 were set up in prisons across Iran that sent thousands of political prisoners to their deaths.
\nMore than 30,000 political prisoners, mostly affiliated with the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK), were secretly mass executed over several months after mock trials lasting just five minutes. Their corpses were doused with disinfectant, packed in refrigerated trucks, and buried at night in mass graves across the country.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe MEK is fully dedicated to free Iran,\u201d wrote Resistance Units<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The internal network of the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK), known as the Resistance Units, organized various anti-regime activities on August 25, 2020 across the country. They hailed the MEK\u2019s 41 years of struggle for freedom and they held up signs that read \u201cThe MEK is fully dedicated to free Iran.\u201d
\nThese activities called for an end to the theocratic regime ruling Iran with the slogans Down with Khamenei, hail to the MEK,\u201d and \u201cThe cruel regime must be overthrown.\u201d
\nThe Resistance Units\u2019 daily activities echo Iranian people\u2019s yearning for freedom, democracy, and people\u2019s sovereignty.
\nThe Iranian Resistance held up signs and took to graffiti with the slogans of the Iranian Resistance Leader Massoud Rajavi and the NCRI\u2019s President-elect Maryam Rajavi.
\nThey wrote:
\nKaraj\u2014 \u201cThe MEK is fully dedicated to free Iran\u201d
\nSistan and Baluchistan\u2014 \u201cDown with Khamenei, hail to the MEK\u201d
\nAhvaz\u2014 \u201cDissolution of the IRGC
\nAhvaz\u2014 \u201cThe only way to achieve freedom is to revolt\u201d
\nSanandaj\u2014 \u201cDown with Khamenei, hail to Rajavi\u201d
\nDehdasht\u2014 \u201cDown with Khamenei\u201d
\nQazvin\u2014 \u201cDown with Khamenei\u201d
\nIsfahan\u2014 \u201cMuharram is the month dedicated to revolutions\u201d \/ \u201cDamn the Shah and the mullahs, the cruel regime must be overthrown\u201d \/ \u201cDown with Khamenei, damn Khomeini
\nIsfahan\u2014 \u201cMuharram is the month dedicated to revolutions\u201d \/ \u201cThe cruel regime must be overthrown\u201d<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 3:15 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s Regime Disinformation Campaign Against the MEK<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Creating and disseminating fake news against the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK\/PMOI) is one of the well-known methods of the mullah regime against the main opposition force and its democratic alternative.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the one-year period between the summer of 2015 and the summer of 2016, Iranian state media produced more than 300 movies and television series to demonize the People\u2019s\u00a0Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI-MEK)<\/a>. Throughout 2016, the Iranian regime also published 14 different books condemning and defaming the\u00a0MEK<\/a>. To this day, Tehran publishes a monthly magazine and maintains at least 13 websites dedicated to the topic, to say nothing of the countless sock puppet accounts on social media that have contributed to the disinformation campaign in recent years.<\/p>\n

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U.S. State Department Releases Names of Dr. Kazem Rajavi\u2019s Assassins<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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U.S. State Department Releases Names of Dr. Kazem Rajavi\u2019s Assassins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The United States State Department\u00a0<\/span>released<\/span><\/a>\u00a0the names of 13 individuals it had\u00a0<\/span>designated<\/span><\/a>\u00a0on August 21 for their role in assassinating Dr.\u00a0<\/span>Kazem Rajavi<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>a leading human rights figure and the representative of the\u00a0<\/span>National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in Switzerland.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 9:00 AM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Protesting workers in northwest Iran block path of senior official\u2019s convoy<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Qazvin Counter Factory workers blocked the path of Mohammad Bagher Nobakht, head of the regime\u2019s Budget and Planning Organization, visiting the city of Qazvin in northwest Iran under the pretext of \u201cGovernment Week\u201d on Monday, August 24. These workers, protesting with their families by their sides, were demanding their delayed paychecks.<\/p>\n

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Political prisoner Nahid Fat\u2019halian returned to women\u2019s ward of Evin<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Political prisoner Nahid Fat’halian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Retired teacher and political prisoner Nahid Fat\u2019halian has been returned to the women\u2019s ward of Evin Prison after completing her interrogations. Four months since her initial arrest, Ms. Fat\u2019halian remains in custody in an undetermined status without being tried.<\/p>\n

Political prisoner Nahid Fat\u2019halian was arrested on April 14, 2020, by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence in Tehran. She was taken to the women\u2019s ward of Evin after several days of interrogation.<\/p>\n

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Virtual Briefing on Iran: Reimposing UN Sanctions<\/strong><\/h3>\n

NCRI-US new report, ‘IRAN: The Imperative to Reimpose UN Sanctions,’ to be released\u2024<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday, Aug 26, 2020, 11:00 am EDT<\/strong><\/p>\n

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VIRTUAL BRIEFING ON IRAN: Reimposing UN Sanctions | NCRI-US new report, ‘IRAN: The Imperative to Reimpose UN Sanctions,’ to be released\u2024 Wed, Aug 26, 2020, 11:00 am EDT | #IranSanctions<\/a> #UNSC<\/a> @MPPregent<\/a> @A_Jafarzadeh<\/a> @ambmcg<\/a> @Iran_Policy<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/Gw68n64H1i<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 EIN Presswire: Press Releases (@EINPresswirePR) August 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll in 403 Cities Surpasses 94,400<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\"Iran:
Over 94,400 dead of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Iran-Iran Coronavirus Death Toll per PMOI MEK sources<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n