{"id":249158,"date":"2021-10-17T02:33:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T07:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=249158"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:40:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:40:48","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-october-17-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-october-17-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief \u2013 October 17, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"massacre-1988\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-247676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/massacre-1988.jpg\" alt=\"massacre-1988\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/massacre-1988.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/massacre-1988-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/massacre-1988-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/massacre-1988-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/massacre-1988-696x464.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\">THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong style=\"text-align: justify\">UPDATE: 12:30 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\">Mistreatment of Elderly in Nursing Home Shocks Iranian Society<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">According to the official IRNA News Agency, republishing terrible images of torture, insults, and systematic beatings in a nursing home in Boroujerd, Southwestern Iran has caused social outrage. The provoked public fury forced the clerical regime to dispatch Mohammad Ali Goodarzi, director-general of Lorestan Welfare Organization to do damage control. While confirming the validity of these horrible scenes, he bogusly claimed the images were taken last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0 <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong style=\"text-align: justify\">UPDATE: 9:30 AM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\">Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll Surpasses 457,800<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Infographic-PMOI-MEK-reports-over-457800-coronavirus-COVID-19-deaths-in-Iran-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-249145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Infographic-PMOI-MEK-reports-over-457800-coronavirus-COVID-19-deaths-in-Iran-1.jpg\" alt=\"Infographic-PMOI-MEK reports over 457,800 coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths in Iran\" width=\"1000\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Infographic-PMOI-MEK-reports-over-457800-coronavirus-COVID-19-deaths-in-Iran-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Infographic-PMOI-MEK-reports-over-457800-coronavirus-COVID-19-deaths-in-Iran-1-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Infographic-PMOI-MEK-reports-over-457800-coronavirus-COVID-19-deaths-in-Iran-1-768x438.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Infographic-PMOI-MEK-reports-over-457800-coronavirus-COVID-19-deaths-in-Iran-1-150x86.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Infographic-PMOI-MEK-reports-over-457800-coronavirus-COVID-19-deaths-in-Iran-1-696x397.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p 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 this afternoon, on Saturday, October 16, 2021, that the Coronavirus fatalities in 547 cities had surpassed 457,800. In Tehran the death toll has passed 107,226, Khorasan Razavi 37,590, Isfahan 31,045, Khuzestan 28,075, West Azerbaijan 16,713, Fars 16,585, Lorestan 15,215, Qom 12,550, Kerman 12,187, Hamedan 8,553, Central Province 8,338, Kermanshah 8,324, Hormozgan 7,710, Yazd 7,528, Semnan 6,165, Bushehr 5,149, and Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad 3,314.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/iran-coronavirus-death-toll-surpasses-457800\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cYou\u2019re Not Permitted To Hold Funerals\u201d\u2014Families of Executed Prisoners Testify in Court<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"summer-of-1988-more-than-30000-political-prisoners\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-246943\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/summer-of-1988-more-than-30000-political-prisoners.jpg\" alt=\"summer of 1988, more than 30,000 political prisoners\" width=\"1000\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/summer-of-1988-more-than-30000-political-prisoners.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/summer-of-1988-more-than-30000-political-prisoners-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/summer-of-1988-more-than-30000-political-prisoners-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/summer-of-1988-more-than-30000-political-prisoners-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/summer-of-1988-more-than-30000-political-prisoners-696x393.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Friday marked the twenty-ninth session of the trial of Hamid Noury, an Iranian prison official charged with torturing inmates in the Gohardasht prison (Karaj) and taking part in the 1988 massacre of thousands of political prisoners. Noury was apprehended by Swedish authorities during a trip to the country. Noury is now standing trial in a court in Stockholm, where many of his victims are giving harrowing testimonies of how he and other regime officials brutally tortured prisoners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/hamid-noury-trial-jafar-mirmohammadi-20211016\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\">Sir David Amess, British MP and Supporter of Iranian Resistance, Murdered<\/h3>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Sir David Amess&amp;#039;s Remarks to the Free Iran World Summit 2021- July 11, 2021\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_JJfUcU4thqg\" 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%2FJJfUcU4thqg%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JJfUcU4thqg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT5M17S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-07-16T17:53:42Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_JJfUcU4thqg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FJJfUcU4thqg%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Sir David Amess&#039;s Remarks to the Free Iran World Summit 2021- July 11, 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\/JJfUcU4thqg\" 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%2FJJfUcU4thqg%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Sir David Amess&amp;#039;s Remarks to the Free Iran World Summit 2021- July 11, 2021\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Sir David Amess&#039;s Remarks to the Free Iran World Summit 2021- July 11, 2021 Sir David Amess member of the UK House of Commons, addressed at the Free Iran World Summit 2021 on July 11, 2021. &quot;After Raisi emerged as president in Iran the United Kingdom, European Union, and United States of America must unite behind the NCRI, its president-elect Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, and the people of Iran because they are our best allies to secure a free Iran. I\u2019m delighted to announce that so far over 100 of my colleagues have signed that very strong statement on Iran and here it is in the red book from the House of Lords and the green book from the House of Commons and this statement rejects the brutal religious dictatorship in Iran and supports the Iranian Resistance and Madame Rajavi. We call on our governments to adopt a firm policy vis-a-vis the regime in Iran and to hold its leaders to account for suppressing the Iranian people engaging in terrorism in Europe meddling in the region and taking hostage individuals with dual citizenship. We also call for the imposition of tougher sanctions as long as the Iranian regime continues with its rogue behavior. Raisi\u2019s appointment brazenly displays the contempt the fundamentalist government has for any kind of positive dialogue or reform&quot;. https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/2021\/07\/11\/live-report-2nd-day-of-the-free-iran-world-summit-2021-europe-arab-world-stand-with-the-resistance\/\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:853px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Friday saw the shocking news of the death of British MP Sir David Amess, murdered while he was holding a meeting with his constituency in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. The police have arrested a 25-year-old man and are investigating the case as a possible terrorist attack.\u00a0UK Home Secretary Priti Patel described Sir David, 69, as a &#8220;man of the people&#8221; who was &#8220;killed doing a job he loved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/david-amess-murder-20211016\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\">A Brief Look at the Spread of Extreme Poverty in Iran and Its \u201cFeminization,\u201d as a Human Rights Violation in Iran by the Mullahs\u2019 Regime.<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"poverty-in-Iran-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-249161\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/poverty-in-Iran-1.jpg\" alt=\"poverty-in-Iran\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/poverty-in-Iran-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/poverty-in-Iran-1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/poverty-in-Iran-1-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/poverty-in-Iran-1-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/poverty-in-Iran-1-696x348.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On October 17, 1987, more than 100,000 people gathered in Trocadero Square in Paris to commemorate the victims of extreme poverty, violence, and hunger. This demonstration led to the creation of the World Day to Overcome Extreme Poverty, officially recognized in 1992 by the United Nations as the \u201cInternational Day for the Eradication of Poverty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/women.ncr-iran.org\/2021\/10\/16\/the-effects-of-extreme-poverty-on-the-body-and-soul-of-iranian-women\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\">Video Report: Poverty in Iran<\/h3>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_cN8mMDgSSgE\"><div id=\"lyte_cN8mMDgSSgE\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FcN8mMDgSSgE%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\/cN8mMDgSSgE\" 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%2FcN8mMDgSSgE%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 style=\"text-align: justify\">An August 2020 report published by the state-run Tejarat News said about 26.5 million people, a third of Iran\u2019s population, were living in absolute poverty in 2020. This is a 38% increase compared to 2019.\u00a0The current poverty line in Iran is 10 million tomans ($370) a month. In March, Iran\u2019s Minister of Labor said a worker gets 2.55 million tomans a month (if paid), enough for only 6 days of living costs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/irannewswire.org\/video-report-poverty-in-iran\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\">Iran: Teachers and Retirees Take to Streets in 45 Cities<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Iran-teachers-protests-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-249160\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Iran-teachers-protests-1.jpg\" alt=\"Iran-teachers-protests\" width=\"1000\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Iran-teachers-protests-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Iran-teachers-protests-1-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Iran-teachers-protests-1-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Iran-teachers-protests-1-150x94.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Iran-teachers-protests-1-696x435.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On Thursday, October 14, thousands of citizens took to the streets in 45 cities across Iran\u2019s 25 provinces, according to the Iranian oppositions People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK). Teachers staged protests in various cities, venting their anger over the officials\u2019 failure to address their dilemmas and demands in recent months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/irannewsupdate.com\/news\/insider\/iran-teachers-and-retirees-take-to-streets-in-45-cities\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-october-16-2021\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Read more:\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Iran News in Brief \u2013 October 16, 2021<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stats.sender.net\/forms\/dGYVLa\/view\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-246866 td-animation-stack-type1-2 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1.png\" alt=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1\" width=\"250\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1.png 250w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1-150x50.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS UPDATE: 12:30 PM CEST Mistreatment of Elderly in Nursing Home Shocks Iranian Society According to the official IRNA News Agency, republishing [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":247676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,182],"tags":[129,276,277],"class_list":{"0":"post-249158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-latest-news-in-brief","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-iran-human-rights","11":"tag-iran-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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