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UPDATE: 7:00 PM CEST
Iran: Coronavirus Update, Over 97,300 Deaths, Aug 31, 2020, 6:00 PM
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK) announced this afternoon, Aug 31, 2020, that Coronavirus has taken the lives of more than 97,300 in 410 cities across Iran. The death toll in various provinces include: 6900 in Khorasan Razavi, 6492 in Khuzestan, 4708 in Mazandaran, 4565 in Qom, 4018 in Gilan, 2796 in Golestan, 2488 in Hamedan, 1991 in Kurdestan, 1299 in Hormozgan, 1261 in Markazi (Central), 1209 in Yazd, 625 in Kohgiluyehn and Boyer Ahmad. This is in addition to reports obtained from other provinces.
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UPDATE: 6:00 PM CEST
Germany’s Domestic Security Agency: Iran’s Regime Continues Targeting Dissidents Abroad, Particularly the MEK
Germany’s Department for the Protection of the Constitution, Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV), in its latest annual report pointed out the Iranian regime has been continuing to spy on and oppress Iranian dissidents, particularly those affiliated with the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK) both inside and outside Iran.
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Iran Regime’s Fractured Economy and Its Impact on the People
While the Iranian regime tries to blame sanctions as the only reason for the country’s failing economy, the regime’s officials and state-run media, during their infightings, identify the institutionalized corruption and the regime’s failed economic structure as the only reason for the freefall of Iran’s economy.
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Iran Regime’s Growing Fear of Cyberspace and the MEK
While forcing the Iranian people to hold Muharram mourning ceremonies amid the COVID-19 outbreak, the mullahs’ Supreme Leader held a solitary virtual mourning ceremony. But this did not prevent the mullahs from showing their growing concern about social media, the Iranian opposition Mujahedin-e Khalq (PMOI or MEK) and a possible uprising.
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Iran’s regime forced by resisting locals to hold back on intent to demolish a village
As a crisis escalates in the village of Abolfazl near Ahvaz, southwest Iran, state-run media outlets reported that state police chief Hossein Ashtari, Abdolnabi Mousavifard, representative of regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Khuzestan province, the regime governor in Ahvaz, Parviz Fattah, head of so the called “Mostazafan Foundation,” and the head of state-run radio and television, are in close contact other to control the situation.
These contacts came as various regime organs blamed each other in their interviews for the criminal crackdown imposed on the Abolfazl village locals.
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The NCRI Women’s Committee calls for unconditional release of Nasrin Sotoudeh
Twenty day past the hunger strike by human rights lawyer and political prisoner Nasrin Sotoudeh, she is in critical health conditions in Evin Prison. She has been on hunger strike since August 11, 2020, in protest to the dire sanitary conditions in prison during the pandemic, demanding freedom of all political prisoners.
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UPDATE: 9:00 AM CEST
Mother of three young Iran protesters appeals for help to save his sons
The mother of three young Iran protesters has gone public to save the lives of his sons, after the Iranian Judiciary handed down unfair sentences for them for participating in public protests in 2018 in Kazerun and Shiraz.
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Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor tweet about the 1988 massacre
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor on the occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances on August 30, while referring to the 1988 massacre of the Iranian political prisoner tweeted:
The enforced disappearances Iran perpetrated as part of its so-called 1988 "death commissions," targeting thousands of political dissidents, continue unabated, as Iran continues to conceal the fate and the whereabouts of persons who have disappeared.
— State Department: Democracy, Human Rights, & Labor (@StateDRL) August 30, 2020
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MEK Resistance Units commemorate martyrs of November 2019 protests
Activities of the Iranian Resistance Units, the internal network of Iran’s main opposition movement, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK)—Tehran, Iran – August 29, 2020
Iran, August 30, 2020 – The Resistance Units, the internal network of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), continued their anti-regime activities across the country on Wednesday, August 26, and Saturday, August 29, despite the regime’s brutal oppression and recent death sentences against protesters.
With the aim to break mullahs’ repression, the Resistance Units carried out their activities in the cities of Tehran, Mashhad, Tabriz, Shiraz, Arak, Karaj, Abadan, Ardabil, Rasht, and Omidiyeh by installing anti-regime banners and posters, holding signs and taking to graffiti with the slogans of the Iranian Resistance leader Massoud Rajavi and NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi.
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Terrorism, Repression of Dissent, and Disinformation Form One Strategy for Tehran
Systematic repression of dissent is a known feature of the Iranian regime It goes hand-in-hand with that regime being recognized as the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. The history of Iran-backed terror acts is full of examples in which the targets were supporters or affiliates of domestic opposition groups, particularly the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). So it comes as absolutely no surprise when similar political violence is directed against Resistance activists who are operating inside their homeland.
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Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll in 409 Cities Exceeds 96,900
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) announced on Sunday, August 30, 2020, that the Coronavirus death toll in 409 cities across Iran had unfortunately passed 96,900. The number of victims in Tehran is 23,545, Mazandaran 4,693, Isfahan 4,369, Lorestan 4,217, Fars 2,718, Kermanshah 2,298, Kerman 1,553, North Khorasan 1,534, Central Province 1,251, Qazvin 834, Ilam 825, and Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad 610.
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Iran news in brief, August 31, 2020
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WHAT ARE THE IRAN PROTESTS OF 2019?
Monday, August 31, 2020, marks the 289th 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 30, 2020
