{"id":240046,"date":"2021-05-20T01:29:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T06:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=240046"},"modified":"2023-02-13T20:25:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T19:25:03","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-may-20-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-news\/iran-news-in-brief-may-20-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief &#8211; May 20, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_225405\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-225405\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Coronavirus_Iran_07092020.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-225405\" title=\"Coronavirus_Iran_07092020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Coronavirus_Iran_07092020.jpg\" alt=\"Iran, Coronavirus\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Coronavirus_Iran_07092020.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Coronavirus_Iran_07092020-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Coronavirus_Iran_07092020-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Coronavirus_Iran_07092020-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Coronavirus_Iran_07092020-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-225405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">THE CONTENT OF THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS<\/h2>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: 8:00 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Continuing Strikes and Protests on Wednesday<\/h3>\n<p>A strike held by miners in Kerman, Southeast of Iran has marked its fourth day and is spreading to other parts of the city. High school students in Tehran and other parts of the country keep protesting against the government&#8217;s decision to hold in-person exams during the fourth wave of a deadly pandemic and defrauded investors keep coming to the streets to demand answers for why they have been misled by the highest officials in the country.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, more reports of demonstrations in Tehran, Kerman, Tabriz, Dehloran, Hafttappeh, and Ilam tell about a nation that is not going to turn silent anytime soon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">May 20 &#8211; Kerman, S <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a><br \/>\nThe families of miners have also joined their protests to demand the workers&#8217; unpaid wages and protest the mine&#8217;s mismanagement. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SahydHIklO\">pic.twitter.com\/SahydHIklO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Iran News Wire (@IranNW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IranNW\/status\/1395365833019437067?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests<\/a><br \/>East Azarbaijan\u2014cement wholesalers and retailers staged a rally in front of the Provincial Governorate protesting officials for the lack of cement. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YctDnFmMwX\">pic.twitter.com\/YctDnFmMwX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Iran News Update (@IranNewsUpdate1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IranNewsUpdate1\/status\/1395391264254840834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 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\">Shahr-e-Rey, Tehran, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> <br \/>Voice says the high school student passed out due to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a> during in-person exams. <br \/>&quot;We&#39;re all going to get COVID&quot;, he says. <br \/>Iranian high schoolers protested for days against in-person exams but were ignored by the Dept of Education. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0TgY2f7ANw\">pic.twitter.com\/0TgY2f7ANw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Iran News Wire (@IranNW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IranNW\/status\/1395419556613660677?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 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\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests<\/a><br \/>Tehran\u2014defrauded investors of &#39;Sekkeh Samen&#39; rallied in front of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) protesting Governor Abdolnasser Hemmati for registering as a Presidential candidate. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qP6AI8UvPa\">pic.twitter.com\/qP6AI8UvPa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Iran News Update (@IranNewsUpdate1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IranNewsUpdate1\/status\/1395400515547193344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: 8:00 AM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll in 542 Cities Exceeds 293,200<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-240047\" title=\"Infographic-PMOI-MEK-reports-over-293200-coronavirus-COVID-19-deaths-in-Iran-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Infographic-PMOI-MEK-reports-over-293200-coronavirus-COVID-19-deaths-in-Iran-1.jpg\" alt=\"Infographic-PMOI-MEK reports over 293,200 coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths in Iran (1)\" width=\"800\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Infographic-PMOI-MEK-reports-over-293200-coronavirus-COVID-19-deaths-in-Iran-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Infographic-PMOI-MEK-reports-over-293200-coronavirus-COVID-19-deaths-in-Iran-1-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Infographic-PMOI-MEK-reports-over-293200-coronavirus-COVID-19-deaths-in-Iran-1-768x438.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Infographic-PMOI-MEK-reports-over-293200-coronavirus-COVID-19-deaths-in-Iran-1-150x86.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Infographic-PMOI-MEK-reports-over-293200-coronavirus-COVID-19-deaths-in-Iran-1-696x397.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/>\nThe <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<\/a> (PMOI\/MEK) announced on Wednesday, May 19, 2021, that the Coronavirus death toll in 542 cities across Iran has passed 293,200. The number of victims in Tehran has reached 68,276, Isfahan 19,455, Khuzestan 18,189, Khorasan Razavi 17,910, East Azerbaijan 11,998, Lorestan 11,885, Mazandaran 11,880, West Azerbaijan 10,953, Gilan 9,946, Fars 9,597, Qom 9,525, Alborz 8,118, Golestan 7,140, Kerman 6,573, Hamedan 6,548, Kermanshah 5,794, Semnan 5,075, Kurdistan 5,037, Yazd 4,982, Hormozgan 3,450, Zanjan 3,220, and Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari 2,400.<\/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-542-cities-exceeds-293200\/\" 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 293,200 people have died of the novel <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#coronavirus<\/a> in 542 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\/SFCBaWNkyp\">https:\/\/t.co\/SFCBaWNkyp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J0GcA5XOck\">pic.twitter.com\/J0GcA5XOck<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; People&#39;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1395117313846697985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\">Iran: People and Opposition MEK Network to Boycott Regime&#8217;s Sham June 18 Presidential Election<\/h3>\n<div id=\"info\" class=\"style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\">MEK Resistance Units in Iran put up posters of Iranian resistance leader Massoud Rajavi and the President-elect of NCRI in Iran\u2019s cities. This act comes at the time that the Iranian regime has mobilized its forces to find and arrest MEK members inside Iran especially before the Iran presidential election 2021.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Iranian Nurses: Victims of COVID-19 and Destructive Policies<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-231650\" title=\"Iran-nurses-coronavirus-22122020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Iran-nurses-coronavirus-22122020.jpg\" alt=\"Iran-nurses-coronavirus-22122020\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Iran-nurses-coronavirus-22122020.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Iran-nurses-coronavirus-22122020-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Iran-nurses-coronavirus-22122020-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>As Iran\u2019s Covid-19 crisis continued to escalate and many Iranians died every day, Iranian regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei banned the purchase of globally approved vaccines on January 6 and said: &#8220;American and British vaccines are not allowed in the country. I told the officials this before and I say it publicly now.&#8221; Although the regime has vaccinated a very limited number of people, medical staff and in particular Iranian nurses as high-risk groups have been victims of the regime&#8217;s inhumane policy over the past 14 months.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/iran-nurses-covid-outbreak-20210519\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Iran Arrests 16 Ahwazi Arabs Including Elderly Mother of Slain Protester<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-240049\" title=\"Iran-arrests-16-Ahwazi-Arabs-for-holding-cultural-gatherings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Iran-arrests-16-Ahwazi-Arabs-for-holding-cultural-gatherings.jpg\" alt=\"Iran-arrests-16-Ahwazi-Arabs-for-holding-cultural-gatherings\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Iran-arrests-16-Ahwazi-Arabs-for-holding-cultural-gatherings.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Iran-arrests-16-Ahwazi-Arabs-for-holding-cultural-gatherings-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Iran-arrests-16-Ahwazi-Arabs-for-holding-cultural-gatherings-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Iran-arrests-16-Ahwazi-Arabs-for-holding-cultural-gatherings-696x348.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Iranian authorities have embarked on a wave of arbitrary arrests of more than a dozen citizens in Ahvaz, capital of the southwestern Khuzestan Province. Among those arbitrarily arrested is the mother of one of the November 2019 uprising martyrs. The clerical regime arrested some 15 young men and the elderly mother of one of the November 2019 uprising martyrs in Ahvaz and the Port of Mahshahr from Friday, May 14 to Sunday, May 16.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/iran-hrm.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/18\/iran-arrests-16-ahwazi-arabs-for-holding-cultural-gatherings\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Iran News in Brief, May 20, 2021<\/h3>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran news in brief, May 20, 2021\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_kuua7eJFq4c\" 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%2Fkuua7eJFq4c%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kuua7eJFq4c\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT1M50S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-05-20T06:37:19Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_kuua7eJFq4c\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Fkuua7eJFq4c%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran news in brief, May 20, 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\/kuua7eJFq4c\" 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%2Fkuua7eJFq4c%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran news in brief, May 20, 2021\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran news in brief, May 20, 2021 Iran: Teachers, Workers Protest in Several Cities On Tuesday, \u201cgreen report card\u201d teachers from various cities gathered in front of the parliament in Tehran to reiterate their demands from the government. On Wednesday, having received no definitive answer from the government, the teachers returned for their rally and chanted, \u201cRaise your voices teachers, demand your rights.\u201d Also on Tuesday, participants in the health ministry employment exam rallied in front of the supreme court in Tehran and protested to the \u201ccoronavirus bonus\u201d in this exam. On Monday, the workers of the Asminoun mine in Manujan county, Kerman province, held a protest rally in front of the governor\u2019s office and went on strike. Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll Exceeds 293,200 Over 293,200 people have died of the novel coronavirus in 542 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 Wednesday. The official death toll declared by the regime stands at 77,765, around a fourth of the actual figure. \u201cThe death count remains high. 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