{"id":237182,"date":"2021-04-03T02:01:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T07:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=237182"},"modified":"2023-04-26T15:55:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T14:55:27","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-april-3-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-news\/iran-news-in-brief-april-3-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief \u2013 April 3, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Iran-News-Tehran-Bazar.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-237194\" title=\"Iran-News-Tehran-Bazar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Iran-News-Tehran-Bazar-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"Tehran Iran Bazar coronavirus\" width=\"803\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Iran-News-Tehran-Bazar-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Iran-News-Tehran-Bazar-768x490.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Iran-News-Tehran-Bazar-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Iran-News-Tehran-Bazar-696x444.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Iran-News-Tehran-Bazar.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 803px) 100vw, 803px\" \/><\/a><\/h5>\n<figure id=\"attachment_236307\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-236307\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-236307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>THE CONTENT OF THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS<\/strong><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>UPDATE: 01:30 PM CEST<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">13 young men and women arrested for \u201chaving fun\u201d in a Tehran caf\u00e9<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-237202\" title=\"iran-partygoers-arrested\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-partygoers-arrested.jpg\" alt=\"iran-partygoers-arrested\" width=\"800\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-partygoers-arrested.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-partygoers-arrested-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-partygoers-arrested-150x86.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-partygoers-arrested-696x399.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The state security forces arrested 13 young men and women for what they called \u201chaving fun and drinking alcohol\u201d in a restaurant cafe in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The state-run Rokna news agency reported today that the state security forces surrounded the restaurant in Tehranpars district at 10 pm Thursday, and arrested 13 young men and women who were drinking \u201calcohol\u201d and smoking hookah, along with the owners of the cafe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/iran-hrm.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/02\/13-young-men-and-women-arrested-for-having-fun-in-a-tehran-cafe\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>UPDATE: 09:00 AM CEST<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll in 533 Cities Surpasses 242,000<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-237171\" title=\"Infographic-PMOI-MEK-reports-over-242000-coronavirus-COVID-19-deaths-in-Iran\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Infographic-PMOI-MEK-reports-over-242000-coronavirus-COVID-19-deaths-in-Iran.jpg\" alt=\"Infographic-PMOI-MEK-reports-over-242000-coronavirus-COVID-19-deaths-in-Iran\" width=\"800\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Infographic-PMOI-MEK-reports-over-242000-coronavirus-COVID-19-deaths-in-Iran.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Infographic-PMOI-MEK-reports-over-242000-coronavirus-COVID-19-deaths-in-Iran-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Infographic-PMOI-MEK-reports-over-242000-coronavirus-COVID-19-deaths-in-Iran-768x438.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Infographic-PMOI-MEK-reports-over-242000-coronavirus-COVID-19-deaths-in-Iran-150x86.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Infographic-PMOI-MEK-reports-over-242000-coronavirus-COVID-19-deaths-in-Iran-696x397.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) announced on Friday, April 2, 20121, that the Coronavirus death toll in 533 cities across Iran had reached 242,000. The number of victims in Tehran has reached 55,871, Isfahan 15,755, Khorasan Razavi 15,625, Khuzestan 14,249, Mazandaran 10,320, East Azerbaijan 9,643, Gilan 8,481, Golestan 6,235, Alborz 5,993, Hamedan 5,543, Semnan 4,205, North Khorasan 3,653, Ardabil 3,002, Hormozgan 2,705, Zanjan 2,615, Bushehr 2,444, South Khorasan 2,351, and Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari 1,945.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-human-rights\/iran-coronavirus-death-toll-in-533-cities-surpasses-242000\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> Coronavirus Update<\/p>\n<p>More than 242,000 people have died of the novel <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#coronavirus<\/a> in 533 cities checkered across all of Iran&#39;s 31 provinces, according to the Iranian opposition PMOI\/MEK.<\/p>\n<p>Full Report<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i8Ax2HpVLe\">https:\/\/t.co\/i8Ax2HpVLe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MajYVSF4eb\">pic.twitter.com\/MajYVSF4eb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; People&#39;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1378046637222678544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">No news of detained SE Iran protesters, one month after arrest<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-237186\" title=\"iran-saravan-unrests-martyrs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-saravan-unrests-martyrs.jpg\" alt=\"iran-saravan-unrests-martyrs\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-saravan-unrests-martyrs.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-saravan-unrests-martyrs-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-saravan-unrests-martyrs-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-saravan-unrests-martyrs-696x348.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than a month after the protests in Saravan over the killing of Baluch fuel traders, the fate of at least 16 Baluch citizens arrested and their families are worried about their conditions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of those arrested have been taken to the detention centers in Zahedan, the capital of Sistan and Baluchistan Province, while the whereabouts of a number of the detainees are still unknown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/iran-hrm.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/02\/no-news-of-detained-se-iran-protesters-one-month-after-arrest\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iranian official: November 2019 protest were \u201cthe most bitter\u201d security incident<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-237183\" title=\"iran-uprising-2019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-uprising-2019.jpg\" alt=\"iran-uprising-2019\" width=\"800\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-uprising-2019.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-uprising-2019-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-uprising-2019-150x85.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hossein Zolfaghari, Security Deputy of the Iranian regime\u2019s Interior Minister, acknowledged regime\u2019s worries about the repeat of nationwide protests in Iran and called the November 2019 protests the toughest year security-wise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cEnsuring the security of the country is a round-the-clock job and knows no holidays or non-holidays. However, sometimes some events occur that affect those involved in the security of our establishment,\u201d Zolfaghari said in remarks that were published by the official IRNA news agency on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/iran-november-2019-protest-official-remarks-20210402\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Afkari brothers banned from phone calls, in solitary for 7 months<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_224836\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-224836\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-224836\" title=\"Afkari_brothers_30082020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Afkari_brothers_30082020.jpg\" alt=\"Afkari_brothers_30082020\" width=\"800\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Afkari_brothers_30082020.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Afkari_brothers_30082020-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-224836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Navid, Vahid, and Habib Afkari Sangari were detained for their participation in nationwide protests in August 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vahid and Habib Afkari, brothers of executed wrestling champion and protester Navid Afkari have been imprisoned in Shiraz\u2019s Adel Abad Prison in southwestern Iran for seven months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a report by the Human Rights News Agency, the brothers have been kept in the \u201cEbrat\u201d or \u201cCautionary\u201d section, since September 2020, when Navid was executed. The Ebrat Section is also known as the \u201cclosed off\u201d section where inmates are not allowed to communicate with the outside world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/irannewswire.org\/afkari-brothers-still-cut-off-from-communication\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Destruction of Iran\u2019s Agricultural Lands Looms<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-237185\" title=\"iran-agriculture-damaged-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-agriculture-damaged-1.jpg\" alt=\"iran-agriculture-damaged-1\" width=\"800\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-agriculture-damaged-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-agriculture-damaged-1-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-agriculture-damaged-1-768x460.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-agriculture-damaged-1-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-agriculture-damaged-1-696x417.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the destruction of Iranian forests, it is now the turn of the national and agricultural lands. The regime\u2019s new policy has paved the way of the destruction of these lands. According to official statistics, the comparison of 2019 statistics with the statistics of 1956 shows that over the past six decades, more than 1.5 million hectares of Iran\u2019s forests have been eliminated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This broad destruction of the forests is continuing. According to the research of Tehran\u2019s University, every second in Iran, 360 square meters are destroyed from the surface of the forests and pastures of the country. In this way, if the destruction process continues at its current pace, in 2081 there will not be a trace of Iranian forests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/irannewsupdate.com\/general-2\/destruction-of-irans-agricultural-lands-looms\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Why the world needs a comprehensive Iran policy<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-237103\" title=\"iran-missiles\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-missiles.jpg\" alt=\"iran-missiles\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-missiles.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-missiles-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-missiles-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-missiles-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-missiles-696x462.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There\u2019s growing concern among politicians about the Iranian regime\u2019s provocative behavior and its continued disregard for its commitments under the nuclear accord. But there\u2019s little consensus on how to address it. And past attempts at addressing Iran\u2019s nuclear program through concessions and disregard for its other malign behavior have failed. And this is why there\u2019s not much appetite for a swift return to the 2015 accord that put a temporary cap on Iran\u2019s nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIran\u2019s nuclear escalations and its burgeoning ballistic missiles program are major threats. But much more troubling is Iran\u2019s ballistic behavior,\u201d American political scientist Walid Phares writes in a column in Modern Diplomacy on March 31.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/iran-policy-walid-phares-20210402\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Iran news in brief, April 3, 2021<\/h3>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, April 3, 2021\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_EOz_3ARLwqg\" 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%2FEOz_3ARLwqg%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EOz_3ARLwqg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT2M5S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-04-03T10:48:11Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_EOz_3ARLwqg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FEOz_3ARLwqg%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, April 3, 2021<\/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\/EOz_3ARLwqg\" 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%2FEOz_3ARLwqg%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, April 3, 2021\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, April 3, 2021 Iran Regime\u2019s Official Expresses Fear of Restive Society Hossein Zolfaghari, Security Deputy of the Iranian regime\u2019s Interior Minister, acknowledged regime\u2019s worries about the repeat of nationwide protests in Iran and called the November 2019 protests the toughest year security-wise. \u201cEnsuring the security of the country is a round-the-clock job and knows no holidays or non-holidays. However, sometimes some events occur that affect those involved in the security of our establishment,\u201d Zolfaghari said in remarks that were published by the official IRNA news agency on Thursday. He also added that the regime has a series of increasing security threats and that more attention needs to be paid, both in the field of defense and security within the regime. Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll Surpasses 242,000 Over 242,000 people have died of the novel coronavirus across Iran, according to reports tallied by People&#039;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran as of April 2. The official death toll declared by the regime stands at 62,876 around a fourth of the actual figure. \u201cDuring the past few days, I have been in contact with tired and disappointed deans of our Medical Sciences universities. They are extremely concerned. Their patients are increasing in numbers and they are running out of available hospital beds,\u201d said Health Minister Saied Namaki on Friday. \u201cIn the new wave the chain of this massive virus is far more powerful, and our health professionals are tired. We have difficult days ahead of us,\u201d he added, according to the regime&#039;s official IRNA news agency. 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