{"id":230891,"date":"2020-12-11T09:08:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T09:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=230891"},"modified":"2023-03-29T18:36:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T17:36:27","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-december-11-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/latest-news-in-brief\/iran-news-in-brief-december-11-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief \u2013 December 11, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_230900\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-230900\" style=\"width: 693px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Martyrs-120000-e1607677324719.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-230900\" title=\"Martyrs-120000-e1607677324719\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Martyrs-120000-e1607677324719-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Museum 120 years of struggle for freedom in Iran-1988 Massacre, a memorial for 30,000 innocents\" width=\"693\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Martyrs-120000-e1607677324719-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Martyrs-120000-e1607677324719-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Martyrs-120000-e1607677324719-696x467.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Martyrs-120000-e1607677324719.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-230900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashraf 3 Museum-1988 Massacre, a memorial for 30,000 executed political prisoners<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>THE CONTENT OF THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: 6:30 PM CET<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Maryam Rajavi&#8217;s message<\/h2>\n<h3>Official UN experts describe the 1988 massacre as a &#8220;crime against humanity&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-230934\" title=\"Maryam-Rajavi-UN-1988-massacre-Iran-crime-against-humanity11122020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Maryam-Rajavi-UN-1988-massacre-Iran-crime-against-humanity11122020.jpg\" alt=\"Maryam-Rajavi-UN-1988-massacre-Iran-crime-against-humanity11122020\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Maryam-Rajavi-UN-1988-massacre-Iran-crime-against-humanity11122020.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Maryam-Rajavi-UN-1988-massacre-Iran-crime-against-humanity11122020-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Maryam-Rajavi-UN-1988-massacre-Iran-crime-against-humanity11122020-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Maryam-Rajavi-UN-1988-massacre-Iran-crime-against-humanity11122020-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Maryam-Rajavi-UN-1988-massacre-Iran-crime-against-humanity11122020-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Maryam-Rajavi-UN-1988-massacre-Iran-crime-against-humanity11122020-1068x712.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Maryam Rajavi: The great day of justice for the Iranian people will arrive. Mullahs, IRGC, and intelligence agents cannot escape their fate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After 32 years, official experts of the United Nations have described the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran as a &#8220;crime against humanity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The experts have called for a comprehensive and independent investigation. This is the outcome of the blood of martyrs and a great victory for the MEK, the Iranian Resistance and the Iranian people on their path to seeking justice.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the justice movement is bearing fruit on the international front. The era of silence and ignoring of the clerical regime&#8217;s vast crimes is over.<\/p>\n<p>The letter and official notice by seven official rapporteurs of the United Nations to the clerical regime paves the way for an international investigation to shed light on the matter. It also calls for the trial of those involved in committing the crimes.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maryam-rajavi.com\/en\/item\/maryam-rajavi-un-1988-massacre-iran-crime-against-humanity-mullahs\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After 32 years, UN experts described the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/1988Massacre?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#1988Massacre<\/a> of political prisoners in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> as a &quot;crime against humanity. &quot;The justice movement is bearing fruit on the international front. The era of silence &amp; ignoring of regime&#39;s major crimes is over.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mwaCaGEwly\">https:\/\/t.co\/mwaCaGEwly<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w3n43SqtOZ\">pic.twitter.com\/w3n43SqtOZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maryam_Rajavi\/status\/1337445444260126728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 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: 5:30 PM CET<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Fourteen political prisoners in Urmia Prison have been on a hunger strike since Wednesday<\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fourteen political prisoners and Sunni prisoners in Urmia Prison have been on a hunger strike since Wednesday morning, December 9, 2020.<br \/>The hunger strike of these political prisoners is in protest of the non-implementation of the  plan to reduce their imprisonment. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KptlMQnejc\">pic.twitter.com\/KptlMQnejc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; IRAN HRM (@IranHrm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IranHrm\/status\/1337068433666695168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 10, 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<h3>Two activists arrested in Mahshahr and Tehran, two prisoners relocated to Qarchak<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-230919\" title=\"Nazanin-Mohammadnejad-Fatemeh-Tamimi-min\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Nazanin-Mohammadnejad-Fatemeh-Tamimi-min.jpg\" alt=\"Nazanin-Mohammadnejad-Fatemeh-Tamimi-min\" width=\"750\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Nazanin-Mohammadnejad-Fatemeh-Tamimi-min.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Nazanin-Mohammadnejad-Fatemeh-Tamimi-min-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Nazanin-Mohammadnejad-Fatemeh-Tamimi-min-696x348.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Agents of the Intelligence Department of the Port of Mahshahr arrested Fatemeh Tamimi at her home on Wednesday, December 9, 2020. Fatemeh Tamimi is a cultural activist in child and Arab folklore literature. She has been transferred to an unknown location.<\/p>\n<p>Fatemeh Tamimi, 39, is married. She has two children, Maha, 15, and Mohammad, 11. She lives in the city of Jarrahi at the port of Mahshahr.<\/p>\n<p>Fatemeh Tamimi also collected stories, songs, lullabies, and other Arab cultural heritage. She also made documentary films.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/women.ncr-iran.org\/2020\/12\/10\/two-activists-arrested-in-mahshahr-and-tehran\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>****<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: 9:00 AM CET<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>U.S.\u00a0 Assistant Secretary Robert A. Destro: U.S. echoes UN&#8217;s call for an independent investigation into the 1988 massacre<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-230896 aligncenter\" title=\"1988Massacre1211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1988Massacre1211.jpg\" alt=\"1988Massacre1211\" width=\"800\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1988Massacre1211.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1988Massacre1211-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1988Massacre1211-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1988Massacre1211-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1988Massacre1211-696x390.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Robert A. Destro, the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the United States Department of State, and the Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issue, underlined the need for an independent investigation into the 1988 massacre of over 30,000 political prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The United States echoes the UN&#8217;s call for an independent investigation into mass disappearances and summary executions in Iran in 1988, though the alleged involvement of current senior officials makes it highly unlikely the regime will investigate itself. The regime has failed to provide families an accounting of the fate of their loved ones. Instead, they threaten families and desecrate grave sites. Iranians deserve justice. We urge the international community to hold the regime accountable to the UN&#8217;s demands,&#8221; he wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The regime has failed to provide families an accounting of the fate of their loved ones. Instead, they threaten families and desecrate grave sites.  Iranians deserve justice.  We urge the international community to hold the regime accountable to the UN&#39;s demands. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HumanRightsDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HumanRightsDay<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Assistant Secretary for DRL (@DRL_AS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DRL_AS\/status\/1337137696637026304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>****\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll in 470 Cities Is More Than 181,600<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-230882 aligncenter\" title=\"Iran-coronavirus-update-10122020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Iran-coronavirus-update-10122020.jpg\" alt=\"Iran-coronavirus-update-10122020\" width=\"800\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Iran-coronavirus-update-10122020.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Iran-coronavirus-update-10122020-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Iran-coronavirus-update-10122020-768x438.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Iran-coronavirus-update-10122020-696x397.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/primer-the-history-the-peoples-mojahedin-organization-iran\" rel=\"noopener\">People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK)<\/a>\u00a0announced on December 10, 2020, that the number of Coronavirus fatalities in 470 cities had exceeded 181,600. The number of victims in Tehran is 44,781, Khorasan Razavi 12,580, Isfahan 10,565, Lorestan 7,390, Qom 7,175, East Azerbaijan 7,113, Mazandaran 6,887, West Azerbaijan 6,833, Gilan 6,061, Fars 5,397, Golestan 4,557, Hamedan 4,440, Kerman 3,799, Central Province 3,718, Semnan 2,739, Ardabil 2,177, Hormozgan 1,930, Qazvin 1,857, Zanjan 1,857, and Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari 1,405.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-human-rights\/iran-coronavirus-death-toll-in-470-cities-is-more-than-181600\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>****<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Iran Regime\u2019s Intelligence Ministry Attributes Fake Letter To Mrs. Rajavi, Engages in Series of Ridiculous Fabrications in the Name of a U.S. Official and a Washington Post Reporter<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" title=\"The-National-Council-of-Resistance-of-Iran-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-National-Council-of-Resistance-of-Iran-1.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Terrified of the court proceedings and implications of the prosecution of its diplomat-terrorist and his criminal accomplices in Belgium, the Iranian regime\u2019s MOIS (Intelligence Ministry), and the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/inside-irans-army-of-terror-and-oppression-revolutionary-guards-irgc\/\" rel=\"noopener\">IRGC<\/a>\u00a0(Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) cyber armies resorted to yet another series of lies and fabrications against the Iranian Resistance.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/terrorism-fundamentalism\/iran-regimes-intelligence-ministry-attributes-fake-letter-to-mrs-rajavi-engages-in-series-of-ridiculous-fabrications-in-the-name-of-a-u-s-official-and-a-washington-post-reporter\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>****<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Railroad workers in Ahvaz, SW <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> protested today to demand 20 months of their unpaid wages. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yyUYuoSc51\">pic.twitter.com\/yyUYuoSc51<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Iran News Wire (@IranNW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IranNW\/status\/1337314450894966785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 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<h3>Iran news in brief, December 11, 2020<\/h3>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, December 11, 2020\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_uaPh9dWt5ok\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FuaPh9dWt5ok%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uaPh9dWt5ok\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT3M21S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2020-12-11T10:52:58Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_uaPh9dWt5ok\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FuaPh9dWt5ok%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, December 11, 2020<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uaPh9dWt5ok\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FuaPh9dWt5ok%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, December 11, 2020\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, December 11, 2020 Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll in 470 Cities Is More Than 181,600 Over 1801,600 people have died of the novel coronavirus in 470 cities checkered across all of Iran\u2019s 31 provinces, according to reports tallied by the Iranian opposition People&#039;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran as of Thursday afternoon local time. The official death toll declared by the regime stands at 51,496, less than a third of the actual figure. \u201cLast week saw the highest number of people reported being hospitalized in the provinces of Ilam, Semnan, Ardabil, Yasuj and Yazd. The stats from these provinces were far higher than the country\u2019s average,\u201d said the spokesperson for the regime\u2019s Health Ministry on Thursday. \u201cThis week the highest number of deaths were reported in the provinces of Yazd, Kurdistan, Ardabil and South Khorasan. Despite the decreasing number of red cities and the relative decrease in the number of deaths and people being hospitalized due to coronavirus in the past week, the numbers of people being hospitalized in some provinces, such as Gilan, Mazandaran and Golestan are rising. Despite the relative improvement across the country, the status quo remains sensitive and fragile. We are concerned that negligence and normalization will result to a new wave of this illness,\u201d she added, according to the regime&#039;s official IRNA news agency. Iran: Resistance Units Commemorate National Students Day Despite the Iranian regime&#039;s intensified repressive measures on the anniversary of the Iran\u2019s National Students Day, anti-regime activities were organized in various cities. In recent days, the members of the Iranian Resistance Units, a network of activists affiliated with the main Iranian opposition movement the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran continued to campaign for regime change in Iran and honored the National Students Day. n various cities, the Resistance Units spread anti-regime slogans and installed posters of Iranian Resistance leader Massoud Rajavi and President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran Maryam Rajavi. In the center of Tehran, a huge poster of Massoud Rajavi was installed with the slogan: \u201cRebellious youth will write Iran\u2019s destiny.\u201d The slogans of the Resistance Units targeted regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei. \u201cDown with the principle of the Supreme Leader\u2019s rule,\u201d \u201cDown with Khamenei, hail to Rajavi,\u201d and \u201cWe can, and we must overthrow the dictator\u201d some of the slogans read. The Resistance Units also honored Dr. Mohammad Maleki, a prominent Iranian academic, the first chancellor of Tehran University after the 1979 anti-monarchical revolution, and a vocal opponent of the Iranian regime. Dr. Maleki passed away on December 2, 2020. 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