{"id":244896,"date":"2021-08-14T00:57:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T05:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=244896"},"modified":"2023-02-13T20:26:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T19:26:01","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-august-14-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-august-14-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief &#8211; August 14, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_244901\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-244901\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Protests-by-medical-interns-in-Hamedan-August-2021.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-244901\" title=\"Protests-by-medical-interns-in-Hamedan-August-2021\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Protests-by-medical-interns-in-Hamedan-August-2021.jpg\" alt=\"Protests by medical interns in Hamedan - August 2021\" width=\"1000\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Protests-by-medical-interns-in-Hamedan-August-2021.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Protests-by-medical-interns-in-Hamedan-August-2021-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Protests-by-medical-interns-in-Hamedan-August-2021-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Protests-by-medical-interns-in-Hamedan-August-2021-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Protests-by-medical-interns-in-Hamedan-August-2021-696x394.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-244901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protests by medical interns in Hamedan &#8211; August 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">THE CONTENT OF THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">UPDATE: 9:00 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Unrest in Eslamshahr, Great Tehran<\/h3>\n<p>Today, locals in Eslamshahr, near the country&#8217;s capital gathered outside the Electricity Department to protest 8 hours of continuous power outages. They chanted &#8220;death to the dictator!&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">August 14 &#8211; Eslamshahr, near Tehran, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> <br \/>Locals are protesting eight-hour blackouts and people are heard chanting:<br \/>&quot;Down with the dictator!&quot; in reference to regime dictator Ali Khamenei.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XOCMrcxzLJ\">pic.twitter.com\/XOCMrcxzLJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; People&#39;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1426588174646616067?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 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\">August 14 &#8211; Eslamshahr, near Tehran, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> <br \/>More scenes of locals are protesting eight-hour blackouts. People are heard chanting:<br \/>&quot;We\u2019re going nowhere and staying put!\u201d as they demand answers and the problem resolved.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6iAdCmo8ZB\">pic.twitter.com\/6iAdCmo8ZB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; People&#39;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1426592650845511682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 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 style=\"text-align: justify;\">UPDATE: 8:00 AM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran: The staggering Coronavirus death toll surpasses 360,600<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-244891 size-full\" title=\"Infographic-PMOI-MEK-reports-over-360600-coronavirus-COVID-19-deaths-in-Iran\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Infographic-PMOI-MEK-reports-over-360600-coronavirus-COVID-19-deaths-in-Iran.jpg\" alt=\"Infographic-PMOI-MEK reports over 360,600 coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths in Iran\" width=\"1000\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Infographic-PMOI-MEK-reports-over-360600-coronavirus-COVID-19-deaths-in-Iran.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Infographic-PMOI-MEK-reports-over-360600-coronavirus-COVID-19-deaths-in-Iran-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Infographic-PMOI-MEK-reports-over-360600-coronavirus-COVID-19-deaths-in-Iran-768x438.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Infographic-PMOI-MEK-reports-over-360600-coronavirus-COVID-19-deaths-in-Iran-150x86.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Infographic-PMOI-MEK-reports-over-360600-coronavirus-COVID-19-deaths-in-Iran-696x397.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\/\" rel=\"noopener\">People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran<\/a>\u00a0(<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/primer-the-history-the-peoples-mojahedin-organization-iran\" rel=\"noopener\">PMOI\/MEK<\/a>) announced on Friday, August 13, 2021, that the Coronavirus death toll in 547 cities exceeds 360,600. The number of victims in Tehran has reached 84,746, Isfahan 24,260, Khorasan Razavi 22,585, Khuzestan 22,671, Mazandaran 14,000, West Azerbaijan 12,933, Fars 12,552, Gilan 11,845, Sistan and Baluchestan 10,625, Alborz 10,578, Qom 10,485, Kerman 9,068, Golestan 8,575, Hamedan 7,348, Central Province 7,153, Yazd 6,303, Kurdistan 5,827, Semnan 5,590, Ardabil 4,380, Bushehr 4,169, Qazvin 4,039, and Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari 2,890.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/iran-the-staggering-coronavirus-death-toll-surpasses-360600\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The massive death toll results from the predatory and criminal policies of a regime that only thinks of preserving its disgraceful rule and cares not for the Iranian people\u2019s lives and health. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HelpIran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HelpIran<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maryam_Rajavi\/status\/1426202297013506052?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 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\">Only the overthrow of the mullahs\u2019 regime and the establishment of democracy and popular sovereignty in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> can put an end to this disaster. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HelpIran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HelpIran<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maryam_Rajavi\/status\/1426202301040107522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 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=\"lyte-wrapper\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" title=\"International Youth Day in Iran\">Why Khamenei Suddenly Afraid of the COVID-19 Spread in Iran<\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" title=\"International Youth Day in Iran\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" title=\"International Youth Day in Iran\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-244903 size-full\" title=\"Iranian-regime-supreme-leader-Ali-Khamenei\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Iranian-regime-supreme-leader-Ali-Khamenei.jpg\" alt=\"Iranian regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei\" width=\"1000\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Iranian-regime-supreme-leader-Ali-Khamenei.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Iranian-regime-supreme-leader-Ali-Khamenei-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Iranian-regime-supreme-leader-Ali-Khamenei-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Iranian-regime-supreme-leader-Ali-Khamenei-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Iranian-regime-supreme-leader-Ali-Khamenei-696x393.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" title=\"International Youth Day in Iran\">In an unannounced televised speech Iranian regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei acknowledged the Covid-19 outbreak has become a &#8220;savage disease&#8221; that &#8220;has become the first issue before the state today&#8221; and is an &#8220;urgent matter.&#8221; However, on January 3, 2020, he said Covid-19 should not be &#8220;exaggerated,&#8221; adding &#8220;this issue will disappear&#8221; and called it &#8220;an achievement&#8221;!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" title=\"International Youth Day in Iran\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" title=\"International Youth Day in Iran\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/iran-covid-coronavirus-khamenei-vaccine-zali-20210813\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" title=\"International Youth Day in Iran\"><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Iran: Anti-Regime Protests in Tehran, Other Cities<\/h3>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_D5ISPS4oo5s\"><div id=\"lyte_D5ISPS4oo5s\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FD5ISPS4oo5s%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/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\/D5ISPS4oo5s\" 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%2FD5ISPS4oo5s%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video thumbnail\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:853px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p title=\"International Youth Day in Iran\">Electricity blackouts in downtown Tehran on Thursday night triggered anti-regime protests, with citizens going on rooftops and chanting anti-regime slogans. Videos posted on social media show the protesters chanting, \u201cDown with [regime supreme leader Ali] Khamenei,\u201d \u201cDown with the mullahs\u2019 regime,\u201d and \u201cThe regime\u2019s leader is a disgrace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p title=\"International Youth Day in Iran\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/iran-protests-20210813\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\" title=\"International Youth Day in Iran\">Iran: Raisi\u2019s Weak Cabinet, but Specialized in Repression<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-244902 size-full\" title=\"Iran-Raisis-cabinet\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Iran-Raisis-cabinet.jpg\" alt=\"Iran-Raisis-cabinet\" width=\"1000\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Iran-Raisis-cabinet.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Iran-Raisis-cabinet-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Iran-Raisis-cabinet-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Iran-Raisis-cabinet-150x94.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Iran-Raisis-cabinet-696x435.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" title=\"International Youth Day in Iran\">In a turbulent situation where Iran and its people are on a verge of a complete denial of the regime, hopeless, and with few days of delay finally, Iran\u2019s new President Ebrahim Raisi announced his cabinet on August 11, 2021. From the people elected for this board, it has become clear that the regime is suffering from a deep gap in the ruling body, therefore it was forced to choose from the most fundamentalist people who are loyal to the regime\u2019s supreme leader, and some of them have worked in institutions close to the supreme leader and were members of Khamenei\u2019s so-called Beit (house).<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" title=\"International Youth Day in Iran\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" title=\"International Youth Day in Iran\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/irannewsupdate.com\/news\/infightings\/iran-raisis-weak-cabinet-but-specialized-in-repression\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" title=\"International Youth Day in Iran\"><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-august-13-2021\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Read more: <\/strong><strong style=\"color: #222222; 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