{"id":250631,"date":"2021-11-12T02:20:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T07:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=250631"},"modified":"2023-01-31T17:46:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T16:46:17","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-november-12-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-november-12-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief \u2013 November 12, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

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THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS<\/h2>\n

UPDATE: 10:00 PM CET<\/span><\/p>\n

Intelligence Affiliated Expert Tells State TV About PMOI Popular Potential<\/h3>\n

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During an interview with the state TV, Javad Mogoei, an alleged reporter and affiliated with the regime’s intelligence agencies highlights the popularity that the People’s Mojahedin Organization (PMOI\/MEK) have enjoyed before the bloody crackdown of 1981 in Iran.<\/p>\n

Javad Mogoei: “The Rajavi Organization was re-assembled inside the prison since 1975. When they were released from prison in 1979, they had about 150 people.”<\/p>\n

Moderator: “But when Rajavi gave lectures in Behesht Zahra in the same year, there’s a huge crowd sitting there.”<\/p>\n

Javad Mogoei: “In my opinion, the main question should be how the 150-member organization in February 1979, becomes a militia of 100,000- 150,000 strong? And in a passionately revolutionary new society, the organization starts to attract and recruit members from the street without any rival. And in two years, this number reaches 100,000 to 150,000 people; there has been talking about various numbers. But on June 15, 1981, their newspaper had a circulation of 600,000 which is not a small number.”<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 9:00 PM CET<\/span><\/p>\n

Former Iranian Diplomat at the Iranian Embassy in Oslo Charged With the Nygaard Assassination in 1993<\/h3>\n

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On Thursday, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation reported that a Lebanese national and a former Iranian diplomat at the Iranian regime embassy in Oslo have been charged with complicity in the assassination attempt on a Norwegian publisher.<\/p>\n

According to NRK on Friday, Kripos, the Norwegian National Criminal Investigation Service has been investigating the case for 12 years, ever since it was resumed in 2009.<\/p>\n

William Nygaard, former head of the Norwegian publishing company Aschehoug and former chairman of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, was responsible for publishing the Norwegian edition of Salman Rushdie’s novel, The Satanic Verses.<\/p>\n

According to reports, in 1993, based on a fatwa (a religious decree) from Ruhollah Khomeini, the former Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader issued against Salman Rushdie and his publishers, William Nygaard was hit by three shots outside his home in Holmenkoll\u00e5sen when he was driving to the office in Aschehoug publishing house.<\/p>\n

Khaled Moussawi, who lived in Oslo in the 1990s, and the Iranian regime embassy’s first secretary who had a background from the Revolutionary Guards are at the top list of suspects in this case. The Norwegian police surveillance service registered that the Iranian diplomat had many contacts in a criminal environment in Oslo.<\/p>\n

The Iranian embassy is now accused of having housed a man who participated in an assassination attempt on a Norwegian citizen.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 2:00 PM CET<\/span><\/p>\n

Iranian Shipment of Narcotics Caught in Azerbaijan<\/h3>\n

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Customs officials announced of Azerbaijan seized a shipment of heroin that had entered the country from Iran. According to Radio France on November 11, the head of the Customs Commission of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Col. Safar Mehdiyev announced via Twitter that his agency has discovered and seized a shipment of 600 kilograms of narcotics embedded in an Iranian truck carrying raisins to Moldova<\/p>\n

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Isfahan Protests Experiences High Turnout On Fifth Day<\/h3>\n
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