{"id":230007,"date":"2020-11-21T09:05:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T09:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=230007"},"modified":"2023-03-28T18:08:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T17:08:30","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-november-21-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-news\/iran-news-in-brief-november-21-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief \u2013 November 21, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shush Square in the southern of Tehran, Iran. Shush is one of the poorest neighborhoods in Tehran and the lives of Shush residents are under threat to be infected by coronavirus. Yesterday the coronavirus death toll in Tehran Province has reached 39,651<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

UPDATE: 1:00 PM CET<\/strong><\/p>\n

EU could be target of Iranian \u2018dirty bomb\u2019 terror attack<\/h2>\n

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Iranian diplomat terrorist Assadollah Assadi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

IRAN\u2019s clerical regime could be planning to use a \u201cdirty bomb\u201d or small, tactical nuclear device in a future terrorist attack on European soil, EU leaders have been warned.<\/p>\n

The international committee In Search of Justice (ISJ) has written to European Union leaders ahead of the trial in Belgium of Assadollah Assadi, a senior diplomat at the Iranian Embassy in Vienna, for allegedly passing 500gms of triacetone triperoxide (TATP) \u2013 the potent explosive thought to have been used in the Manchester Arena bombing \u2013 to an Iranian couple from Antwerp.<\/p>\n

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Townhall: Mandela’s Legacy for Iran<\/h3>\n

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By Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela<\/strong><\/p>\n

My grandfather, Nelson Mandela, once said: \u201cSince my release, I have become more convinced than ever that the real makers of history are the ordinary men and women of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n

This month, the ordinary men and women of Iran are commemorating the mass killings that tragically occurred in their country in November 2019. Almost a year ago, after two days of nationwide anti-government protests against the tripling of gasoline prices across Iran, security forces responded by opening fire on demonstrators. At least 4,000 people were injured and 1,500 killed \u2013 400 of whom were women and 29 were children. The protestors were unarmed and largely unemployed or low-income youth.<\/p>\n

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Iran worker burns himself to death in protest to not being able to afford mother\u2019s treatment<\/h3>\n

An Iranian worker self-immolated outside the Kermanshah Workers\u2019 Syndicate in western Iran on November 18 in protest to his medical insurance being cut off and his inability to pay for his mother\u2019s cancer treatment.<\/p>\n

The 45-year-old worker was transferred to the hospital but died from a cardiac arrest due to the severity of his burns, the state-run Mehr News Agency said.<\/p>\n

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5 residents of Piranshahr were arrested without warrant<\/h3>\n
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5 residents of Piranshahr were arrested without warrant &taken to an intelligence detention center in Urmia on Nov. 15. They are identified as Najmoddin Sokhanvar, Shouresh Abdollah Nejad, Salah Aji, Esmail Haji Abdollah & Ali Jola. It is not clear what their charges are. #Iran<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/yB318LosES<\/a><\/p>\n

— IRAN HRM (@IranHrm) November 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n