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UPDATE: 8:30 PM CEST
Iran: Coronavirus Update, Over 95,000 Deaths, Aug 26, 2020, 6:00 PM
NUMBER OF VICTIMS (AS OF Aug 26, 2020, 6:00 PM CEST):
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK) announced this afternoon, Aug 26, 2020, that Coronavirus has taken the lives of more than 95,000 in 404 cities across Iran. The death toll in various provinces include: 23145 in Tehran, 4568 in Mazandaran, 4251 in Isfahan, 4022 in Lorestan, 3943 in Gilan, 2790 in East Azerbaijan, 2746 in Golestan, 2678 in Fars, 2639 in West Azerbaijan, 2448 in Hamedan, 1909 in Kurdestan, 1504 in North Khorasan, 1227 in Semnan, 1226 in Markazi (Central), 560 in Kohgiluyehn and Boyer Ahmad, 504 in South Khorasan. This is in addition to reports obtained from other provinces.
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UPDATE: 6:15 PM CEST
Iraqi Protesters Storm Iran-Backed Terrorist Groups’ Buildings
Following the assassination of several human and social rights activists in Iraq by the Iranian regime’s terrorist proxy groups, protesters stormed several buildings belonging to the Iranian regime’s proxy groups in the southern cities of Iraq. These developments, in Shi’ite provinces where the regime had influence by misusing people’s religious sentiments, are another blow to the regime’s terrorism and warmongering machine.
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UPDATE: 5:30 PM CEST
Live: VIRTUAL BRIEFING ON IRAN: Reimposing UN Sanctions NCRI-US new report, ‘IRAN: The Imperative to Reimpose UN Sanctions,’ to be released
VIRTUAL BRIEFING ON IRAN: Reimposing UN Sanctions
NCRI-US new report, ‘IRAN: The Imperative to Reimpose UN Sanctions,’ to be released.
Wed, Aug 26, 2020 – 11 am EDT, 17 pm CEST #IranSanctions #UNSC #DisbandIRGChttps://t.co/Ee1LQu3Mpr— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) August 26, 2020
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UPDATE: 3:30 PM CEST
Speech by Jean Ziegler in webinar on the 1988 massacre in Iran
Jean Ziegler, member of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council, on August 22, 2020 addressed a webinar on the 1988 massacre in Iran.
Survivors of Iran’s 1988 massacre of political prisoners, international legal experts, and human rights and political dignitaries held a webinar on August 22, 2020 appealing to the United Nations and its Member States to carry out an independent investigation into the massacre.
Following a fatwa handed down by the Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini in mid-July 1988, ‘Death Commissions’ were set up in prisons across Iran that sent thousands of political prisoners to their deaths.
More than 30,000 political prisoners, mostly affiliated with the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK), were secretly mass executed over several months after mock trials lasting just five minutes. Their corpses were doused with disinfectant, packed in refrigerated trucks, and buried at night in mass graves across the country.
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“The MEK is fully dedicated to free Iran,” wrote Resistance Units
The internal network of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), known as the Resistance Units, organized various anti-regime activities on August 25, 2020 across the country. They hailed the MEK’s 41 years of struggle for freedom and they held up signs that read “The MEK is fully dedicated to free Iran.”
These activities called for an end to the theocratic regime ruling Iran with the slogans Down with Khamenei, hail to the MEK,” and “The cruel regime must be overthrown.”
The Resistance Units’ daily activities echo Iranian people’s yearning for freedom, democracy, and people’s sovereignty.
The Iranian Resistance held up signs and took to graffiti with the slogans of the Iranian Resistance Leader Massoud Rajavi and the NCRI’s President-elect Maryam Rajavi.
They wrote:
Karaj— “The MEK is fully dedicated to free Iran”
Sistan and Baluchistan— “Down with Khamenei, hail to the MEK”
Ahvaz— “Dissolution of the IRGC
Ahvaz— “The only way to achieve freedom is to revolt”
Sanandaj— “Down with Khamenei, hail to Rajavi”
Dehdasht— “Down with Khamenei”
Qazvin— “Down with Khamenei”
Isfahan— “Muharram is the month dedicated to revolutions” / “Damn the Shah and the mullahs, the cruel regime must be overthrown” / “Down with Khamenei, damn Khomeini
Isfahan— “Muharram is the month dedicated to revolutions” / “The cruel regime must be overthrown”
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UPDATE: 3:15 PM CEST
Iran’s Regime Disinformation Campaign Against the MEK
In the one-year period between the summer of 2015 and the summer of 2016, Iranian state media produced more than 300 movies and television series to demonize the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI-MEK). Throughout 2016, the Iranian regime also published 14 different books condemning and defaming the MEK. To this day, Tehran publishes a monthly magazine and maintains at least 13 websites dedicated to the topic, to say nothing of the countless sock puppet accounts on social media that have contributed to the disinformation campaign in recent years.
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U.S. State Department Releases Names of Dr. Kazem Rajavi’s Assassins
The United States State Department released the names of 13 individuals it had designated on August 21 for their role in assassinating Dr. Kazem Rajavi, a leading human rights figure and the representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Switzerland.
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UPDATE: 9:00 AM CEST
Protesting workers in northwest Iran block path of senior official’s convoy
Qazvin Counter Factory workers blocked the path of Mohammad Bagher Nobakht, head of the regime’s Budget and Planning Organization, visiting the city of Qazvin in northwest Iran under the pretext of “Government Week” on Monday, August 24. These workers, protesting with their families by their sides, were demanding their delayed paychecks.
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Political prisoner Nahid Fat’halian returned to women’s ward of Evin
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Virtual Briefing on Iran: Reimposing UN Sanctions
NCRI-US new report, ‘IRAN: The Imperative to Reimpose UN Sanctions,’ to be released․
Wednesday, Aug 26, 2020, 11:00 am EDT
VIRTUAL BRIEFING ON IRAN: Reimposing UN Sanctions | NCRI-US new report, ‘IRAN: The Imperative to Reimpose UN Sanctions,’ to be released․ Wed, Aug 26, 2020, 11:00 am EDT | #IranSanctions #UNSC @MPPregent @A_Jafarzadeh @ambmcg @Iran_Policy https://t.co/Gw68n64H1i
— EIN Presswire: Press Releases (@EINPresswirePR) August 25, 2020
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Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll in 403 Cities Surpasses 94,400
- While the Coronavirus mortality rate in Iran is one of the highest in the world, Rouhani shamelessly claimed, “The enemies wanted to push the country into crisis by closing it down. We said that together the people’s lives and livelihood could be ensured. Three world leaders told me that your work in Iran was a model for us to deal with both the Coronavirus and continue our economic activity!
- Ali-Akbar Haghdoust, Chairman of the Coronavirus Epidemiology Committee: We do not know in which half of this game (Coronavirus outbreak) we are standing? Have we passed the first half or not? After China, Iran was the first country to experience many new developments in the disease. (ISNA, August 25)
- Alireza Zali, head of the National Coronavirus Combat Taskforce (NCCT) in Tehran: The rate of hospital discharge is lower than those hospitalized. 8.2% of outpatients are hospitalized, and 25% of them need intensive care, both of which are significant figures. (State TV, August 24)
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Iran News on Coronavirus-August 25, 2020
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Holding Iran’s Regime Accountable for Terrorism Is Indispensable for Global Peace and Security
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To Stop Executions in Iran Permanently, World Should Hold Mullahs to Account for 1988 Massacre
The mullahs’ incessant executions and human rights violations will continue as long as they enjoy impunity over 1988 massacre of political prisoners.
Executions in Iran are a political tool for the mullahs to maintain their grasp on power.
The regime’s founder, Ruhollah Khomeini, ordered the massacre of all political prisoners, mostly members and supporters of PMOI/ MEK, who refused to succumb to the regime’s demands.
30,000 innocent prisoners were executed only for preserving their ideas. Since the 1988 massacre, the regime has never stopped its human rights violations.
killing over 1500 protesters during the major Iran protests in November 2019, indicate how the mullahs use execution and repression to prolong their rule.
These events also confirm how the mullahs enjoy and use their impunity over the 1988 massacre as a license to kill and further brutalize the Iranian society. many of the perpetrators of the 1988 massacre – such as Ebrahim Raisi, current head of the regime’s Judiciary – hold top positions in the regime.
Now, to end the regime’s ongoing human rights violations, the world community should hold the mullahs to account for the 1988 massacre and end their impunity.
This will also help the Iranian people in their quest for freedom and democracy.
The world community has an opportunity to stand with the people of Iran.
The United Nations and its members should take action regarding the 1988 massacre during the upcoming UN General Assembly in September.
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Iran: A Group of Prisoners in Solitary Confinement on a Hunger Strike in Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan
Call for urgent action to save prisoners’ lives and to visit the prisons by International fact–finding missions
At least 20 young prisoners in solitary confinement in Isfahan’s Dastgerd prison have been on a hunger strike for several days to protest the inhumane conditions of the prison. They are demanding to be transferred to a public ward.
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Iran: Voice of political prisoner in Evin prison
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Iran news in brief, August 26, 2020
Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll in 403 Cities Surpasses 94,400
Iran: Political Prisoners Go on Hunger Strike in Solitary Confinement
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WHAT ARE THE IRAN PROTESTS OF 2019?
Wednesday, August 26, 2020, marks the 284th day since the beginning of the nationwide Iran protests.
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) has identified 755 of the more than 1500 protesters killed by the regime so far.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has called on the United Nations to urgently send an international fact-finding mission to Iranian prisons to meet with the detainees.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE UPRISING:
Number of uprising cities: 191
Number of martyrs: At least 1500
Number of injured: More than 4,000
Number of detainees: More than 12,000
Read more: Latest News in Brief- August 25, 2020
