{"id":266733,"date":"2022-11-16T08:48:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T07:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=266733"},"modified":"2023-02-01T03:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T02:04:45","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-november-16-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-news\/iran-news-in-brief-november-16-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief \u2013 November 16, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

UPDATE: 8:30 PM CET<\/strong><\/p>\n

Treasury Sanctions Senior Officials and \u201cInterrogator Journalists\u201d of Iran\u2019s State-Run Media<\/h3>\n

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WASHINGTON \u2014Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is designating six senior employees of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), the Iranian state-run media corporation that has broadcast hundreds of forced confessions of Iranian, dual national, and international detainees in Iran. Designated in 2013, IRIB and its subsidiaries act not as objective media outlets but rather as a critical tool in the Iranian government\u2019s mass suppression and censorship campaign against its own people. IRIB has produced and recently broadcast televised interviews of individuals being forced to confess that their relatives were not killed by Iranian authorities during nationwide protests but died due to accidental, unrelated causes.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 7:30 PM CET<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iran Uprising at a Glance \u2013 Day 62<\/h3>\n

Based partially on reporting by PMOI (MEK) Network in Iran<\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 16, 2022 \u2013 7 PM CET<\/p>\n

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  • Days<\/strong>: 62<\/li>\n
  • Protests<\/strong>: 227 cities<\/li>\n
  • Fatalities<\/strong>: 560+ estimated deaths, 402 identified by MEK, over 50 teenagers<\/li>\n
  • Detentions<\/strong>: 30,000+<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Abbas Abdi, a commentator with the so-called reformist apologists of the Khamenei regime and former US Embassy hostage-taker, warned senior officials<\/a> on November 16 that the country’s \u201csilent\u201d majority supports the ongoing protests. He said the conservative camp appears to be divided over the impact of the protests and the sustainability of changes that have already occurred in Iranian society because of more than two months of nationwide protests.<\/p>\n

    In a commentary in the daily Etemad, he took aim at his conservative colleagues who defend the status quo and said that although some simple-minded individuals still believe that the protests will come to an end soon, the situation shows differently. Abdi asserted that most Iranians are dissatisfied with the situation in Iran and support the protests, claiming that without their support the movement would not have started in the first place or would have already ended. Abdi confirmed that every analyst across the globe has concluded that the situation would never return to the status quo ante.<\/p>\n

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    November 16 – Sanandaj, western #Iran<\/a>
    Protesters chanting: "This is the year Seyed Ali (Khamenei) is overthrown!"    #IranRevolution2022<\/a>#\u0645\u0631\u06af_\u0628\u0631_\u0633\u062a\u0645\u06af\u0631_\u0686\u0647_\u0634\u0627\u0647_\u0628\u0627\u0634\u0647_\u0686\u0647_\u0631\u0647\u0628\u0631<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/rJdattliK1<\/a><\/p>\n

    — People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) November 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n