{"id":237324,"date":"2021-04-06T02:12:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T07:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=237324"},"modified":"2023-04-19T20:05:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T19:05:45","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-april-6-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-april-6-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief &#8211; April 6, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-237326\" title=\"iran-protests-05042021-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-protests-05042021-1.jpg\" alt=\"iran-protests-05042021\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-protests-05042021-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-protests-05042021-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-protests-05042021-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-protests-05042021-1-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-protests-05042021-1-696x392.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>THE CONTENT OF THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"text-align: justify; color: #222222; font-size: 15px;\">UPDATE: 08:00 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-237387 size-full\" title=\"Iran-women-execution\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Iran-women-execution.jpg\" alt=\"Iran-women-execution\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Iran-women-execution.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Iran-women-execution-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Iran-women-execution-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Iran-women-execution-150x94.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Iran-women-execution-696x435.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian regime began increasing the number of women executed and female political prisoners exiled in the run-up to the Iranian New Year (Nowruz) on March 20.<\/p>\n<p>Since the start of 2021, the regime has executed five\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/irannewsupdate.com\/news\/women\/un-commission-on-iran-women\/\">women<\/a>, including Zahra Esma\u2019ili, an innocent woman who took the blame for her teenage daughter who\u2019d killed her abusive father, who was hanged after having a heart attack because she\u2019d seen 16 other people executed in front of her. Another one of those executed was domestic violence victim Maryam Karimi.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/irannewsupdate.com\/news\/women\/iran-regime-increased-executions-of-women-in-run-up-to-new-year\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong style=\"text-align: justify; color: #222222; font-size: 15px;\">UPDATE: 12:00 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Rallies of workers protesting for their rights<\/h2>\n<h3>in Tehran and Khoramshahr today<\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Apr. 6 &#8211; Tehran, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> <br \/>Power transmission and distribution workers gathered outside the Parliament today to demand their unpaid wages and protest their low wages and benefits. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bAFs4s9UwS\">pic.twitter.com\/bAFs4s9UwS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Iran News Wire (@IranNW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IranNW\/status\/1379334903574233091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Apr. 6 &#8211; Khorramshahr, SW <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> <br \/>Workers of the Water and Sewer Dept. gathered today to demand their unpaid wages. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l53S82XoYm\">pic.twitter.com\/l53S82XoYm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Iran News Wire (@IranNW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IranNW\/status\/1379332847811563521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"text-align: justify; color: #222222; font-size: 15px;\">UPDATE: 09:30 AM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran \u2013 Coronavirus Death Toll in 535 Cities Exceeds 244,000<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-237316\" title=\"iran-coronavirus-death-toll-update-05042021-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-coronavirus-death-toll-update-05042021-1.jpg\" alt=\"iran-coronavirus-death-toll-update-05042021-1\" width=\"800\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-coronavirus-death-toll-update-05042021-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-coronavirus-death-toll-update-05042021-1-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-coronavirus-death-toll-update-05042021-1-768x438.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-coronavirus-death-toll-update-05042021-1-150x86.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-coronavirus-death-toll-update-05042021-1-696x397.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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 Monday, April 5, 2021, that the Coronavirus death toll in 535 cities across Iran had exceeded 244,000. The number of victims in Tehran has reached 56,191, Isfahan 15,905, Khorasan Razavi 15,745, Khuzestan 14,444, Mazandaran 10,410, East Azerbaijan 9,773, in West Azerbaijan 9,148, Gilan 8,551, Golestan 6,295, Alborz 6,058, Kerman 5,394, Central Province 5,073, Semnan 4,260, North Khorasan 3, 678, Ardabil 3,022, Zanjan 2,645, Bushehr 2,464, South Khorasan 2,371, and Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari 1,960.<\/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-535-cities-exceeds-244000\/\" 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 244,000 people have died of the novel <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#coronavirus<\/a> in 535 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\/dzUCtUFwDF\">https:\/\/t.co\/dzUCtUFwDF<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JnbNuu3CDO\">pic.twitter.com\/JnbNuu3CDO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; People&#39;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1379171232545931267?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 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;\">Different cities in Iran witness demonstrations against the regime\u2019s institutions and state-affiliated companies<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_237339\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-237339\" style=\"width: 802px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-tehran-municipal-workers-protest.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-237339\" title=\"iran-tehran-municipal-workers-protest\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-tehran-municipal-workers-protest-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"iran-tehran-municipal-workers-protest\" width=\"802\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-tehran-municipal-workers-protest-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-tehran-municipal-workers-protest-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-tehran-municipal-workers-protest-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-tehran-municipal-workers-protest-696x391.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-tehran-municipal-workers-protest.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-237339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Municipal workers protest in front of the Ministry of Labor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Monday, a group of stockholders who lost their fortunes because of systemic manipulation and \u2018pump and dump\u2019 of the Tehran stock market rallied in front of the parliament. They chanted: \u201cthe stock exchange betrays, and the government supports it\u201d as well as \u201cDeprived of justice, we won\u2019t vote!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also, municipality counselors in Tehran gathered in front of the Ministry of Labor and dissented their dismissal of work. The demonstrators spoke of 2300 accounts of safety, environmental and sanitation counselors that have lost their jobs in the last 18 months.<br \/>\nNear Karun, southwest of the country, municipal employees gathered in front of the governor\u2019s building in Ahvaz. Some were dismissed without any reasonable justifications and some were deprived of their wages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Farmers from Masjid Haidar and Dorche in Isfahan rallied in two separate protests to express their anger and frustration over the mismanagement of water and sewage that have blown their crops and put their lives on the line.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Laborers of the sugarcane factory of \u2018Haft Tappeh\u2019 continued their strike for the ninth day successively. They demanded an extension of their employment contracts to end suffering from job insecurity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Workers of the \u2018Gatchsaran\u2019 oil and gas company gathered in front of the CEO\u2019s office and asked for their complaints to be heard and their rights to be fulfilled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Villagers of Narjouye, a suburb in the Jiroft County, southeast Iran, rallied in front of the governor\u2019s office and protested negligence of their power grid.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_237340\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-237340\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-237340\" title=\"iran-narjouye-protest\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-narjouye-protest.jpg\" alt=\"iran-narjouye-protest\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-narjouye-protest.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-narjouye-protest-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-narjouye-protest-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-narjouye-protest-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-237340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters rallied in Narjouye, Jiroft county, Kerman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_237338\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-237338\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-237338\" title=\"iran-protest-parliament-stockholders-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-protest-parliament-stockholders-2.png\" alt=\"iran-protest-parliament-stockholders (2)\" width=\"800\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-protest-parliament-stockholders-2.png 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-protest-parliament-stockholders-2-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-protest-parliament-stockholders-2-768x400.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-protest-parliament-stockholders-2-150x78.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-protest-parliament-stockholders-2-696x363.png 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-237338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iranian stockholders rallied in front of the parliament<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_237336\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-237336\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-237336\" title=\"iran-isfahan-dorche-protest-05042021-2-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-isfahan-dorche-protest-05042021-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"iran-isfahan-dorche-protest-05042021-2\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-isfahan-dorche-protest-05042021-2-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-isfahan-dorche-protest-05042021-2-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-isfahan-dorche-protest-05042021-2-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-isfahan-dorche-protest-05042021-2-1-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-isfahan-dorche-protest-05042021-2-1-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-isfahan-dorche-protest-05042021-2-1-265x198.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-237336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmers in Dorche, Isfahan express their anger over the state&#8217;s negligence of sewage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Iran news in brief, April 6, 2021<\/h3>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, April 6, 2021\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_b2YYfE-BaYQ\" 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%2Fb2YYfE-BaYQ%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b2YYfE-BaYQ\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT2M4S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-04-06T06:36:44Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_b2YYfE-BaYQ\" 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The official death toll declared by the regime stands at 63,332 around a fourth of the actual figure. \u201cThis wave is far more powerful than what some people are seeing. For the health apparatus I am forecasting incredibly challenging days ahead. We could have avoided where we are today,\u201d says Health Minister Saied Namaki on Monday. \u201cKhuzestan province showed to us that managing this virus is extremely difficult and the complexities of our medical professionals in Khuzestan has been more complicated than the efforts of the past 12 months across the country. The number of people hospitalized has yet to reach the forecasted figures and it is still not clear what is about to take place. Enough resources are not available, and we have not received our budget for various reasons,\u201d he added, according to the regime&#039;s official IRNA news agency. Iran&#039;s Regime Executes Four Prisoners Iranian authorities in Urmia prison executed four prisoners on Sunday. These prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement a day before. According to reports obtained from inside Iran, on Saturday, the authorities of Urmia prison transferred at least eight prisoners to solitary confinement to prepare them for execution. The prisoners\u2019 family members and relatives rallied in front of the prison in protest. These inhuman acts of the mullahs\u2019 regime are aimed to create an atmosphere of fear and repression in order to control the explosive state of the Iranian society, especially as the regime gets ready for its sham presidential elections, scheduled in June. 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