{"id":224882,"date":"2020-08-31T08:29:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T07:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=224882"},"modified":"2023-03-28T17:49:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T16:49:36","slug":"latest-news-in-brief-august-31-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/latest-news-in-brief\/latest-news-in-brief-august-31-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest News in Brief \u2013 August 31, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Taq-e Bostan (Arch of the Garden) in Kermanshah (Iran). On Sunday, August 30, the Coronavirus death toll in Kermanshah was 2,298<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

UPDATE: 7:00 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iran: Coronavirus Update, Over 97,300 Deaths, Aug 31, 2020, 6:00 PM<\/h2>\n

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The People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI \/ MEK)<\/a>\u00a0announced this afternoon, Aug 31, 2020, that Coronavirus has taken the lives of more than 97,300 in 410 cities across Iran. The death toll in various provinces include: 6900 in Khorasan Razavi, 6492 in Khuzestan, 4708 in Mazandaran, 4565 in Qom, 4018 in Gilan, 2796 in Golestan, 2488 in Hamedan, 1991 in Kurdestan, 1299 in Hormozgan, 1261 in Markazi (Central), 1209 in Yazd, 625 in Kohgiluyehn and Boyer Ahmad. This is in addition to reports obtained from other provinces.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 6:00 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s Domestic Security Agency: Iran\u2019s Regime Continues Targeting Dissidents Abroad, Particularly the MEK<\/h3>\n
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Germany\u2019s Department for the Protection of the Constitution<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Germany\u2019s Department for the Protection of the Constitution, Bundesamt f\u00fcr Verfassungsschutz (BfV), in its latest annual report pointed out the Iranian regime has been continuing to spy on and oppress Iranian dissidents, particularly those affiliated with the\u00a0People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI \/ MEK)<\/a>\u00a0both inside and outside Iran.<\/p>\n

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Iran Regime\u2019s Fractured Economy and Its Impact on the People<\/h3>\n

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While the Iranian regime tries to blame sanctions as the only reason for the country\u2019s failing economy, the regime\u2019s officials and state-run media<\/span>, during their infightings,<\/span>\u00a0identify\u00a0<\/span>the institutionalized corruption and the regime\u2019s failed\u00a0<\/span>economic structure<\/span><\/a>\u00a0as the only reason for the freefall of Iran\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>economy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Iran Regime\u2019s Growing Fear of Cyberspace and the MEK<\/h3>\n
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The Iranian regime is interested in block all social media platforms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While forcing the Iranian people to hold Muharram mourning ceremonies amid the COVID-19 outbreak, the mullahs\u2019 Supreme Leader held a solitary virtual mourning ceremony. But this did not prevent the mullahs from showing their growing concern about social media, the Iranian opposition\u00a0Mujahedin-e Khalq (PMOI or MEK)<\/a>\u00a0and a possible uprising.<\/p>\n

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Iran\u2019s regime forced by resisting locals to hold back on intent to demolish a village<\/h3>\n
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Abolfazl village near Ahvaz, southwest Iran<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As a crisis escalates in the village of Abolfazl near Ahvaz, southwest Iran, state-run media outlets reported that state police chief Hossein Ashtari, Abdolnabi Mousavifard, representative of regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei<\/a> in Khuzestan province, the regime governor in Ahvaz, Parviz Fattah, head of so the called \u201cMostazafan Foundation<\/a>,\u201d and the head of state-run radio and television, are in close contact other to control the situation.<\/p>\n

These contacts came as various regime organs blamed each other in their interviews for the criminal crackdown imposed on the Abolfazl village locals.<\/p>\n

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The NCRI Women\u2019s Committee calls for unconditional release of Nasrin Sotoudeh<\/h3>\n
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Call for release of lawyer and political prisoner Nasrin Sotoudeh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Twenty day past the hunger strike by human rights lawyer and political prisoner Nasrin Sotoudeh, she is in\u00a0critical health conditions<\/a>\u00a0in Evin Prison. She has been on hunger strike since August 11, 2020, in protest to the dire sanitary conditions in prison during the pandemic, demanding freedom of all political prisoners.<\/p>\n

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

Mother of three young Iran protesters appeals for help to save his sons<\/h3>\n
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other of three young Iran protesters appeals for help to save his sons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The mother of three young Iran protesters has gone public to save the lives of his sons, after the Iranian Judiciary handed down unfair sentences for them for participating in public protests in 2018 in Kazerun and Shiraz.<\/p>\n

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Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor tweet about the 1988 massacre<\/h3>\n

Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor on the occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances on August 30, while referring to the 1988 massacre of the Iranian political prisoner tweeted:<\/p>\n

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The enforced disappearances Iran perpetrated as part of its so-called 1988 "death commissions," targeting thousands of political dissidents, continue unabated, as Iran continues to conceal the fate and the whereabouts of persons who have disappeared.<\/p>\n

— State Department: Democracy, Human Rights, & Labor (@StateDRL) August 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n