UPDATE: 05:00 PM CEST
Protest rallies of retired Iranians stripped of their pension in Tabriz, Mashhad, Neyshabur and Sari today
April 4 – Tabriz, northwest #Iran
Retirees and pensioners gathered outside the local Social Security Organization branch seeking answers to their demands.Placards read:
"SSO retirees have dropped from poverty line to death line"#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/DgmxiB5B2U— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 4, 2021
April 4 – Neyshabur, northeast #Iran
Retirees and pensioners gathered outside the local Social Security Org. branch seeking answers to their demands.Placards read:
"We won't rest until our demands are met!"
"Incompetent officials, resign, resign!"#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/lN98pNG7OF— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 4, 2021
April 4 – Sari, northern #Iran
Retirees and pensioners gathered outside the local Social Security Org. branch seeking answers to their demands.Placards read:
"Screaming out against all this injustice!"
"Inflation and high prices are the answers to our kindness!"#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/Y0UA18SqIp— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 4, 2021
UPDATE: 02:30 PM CEST
Protest rallies of retired Iranians stripped of their pension in Tehran, Arak, and Karaj today
April 4 – Tehran, #Iran
Retirees and Social Security pensioners are seen chanting, "We've heard too many lies and won't vote!"Iranians across the country are vowing to boycott the regime's so-called presidential elections on June 18.#IranProtestspic.twitter.com/wCzbXzosDF
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 4, 2021
April 4 – Arak, #Iran
Retirees and Social Security pensioners held a protest gathering outside the local Social Security Organization branch today seeking answers to their demands."These protests will continue everyday until we get our demands!" they chanted.#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/hQDx3PQiUl
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 4, 2021
Monthly Report March 2021 – exile of women political prisoners, executions
The Persian New Year, Nowruz, started on March 20, 2021. Nevertheless, on the eve of the New Year and in months when all Iranians were preparing to celebrate Nowruz, the clerical regime in Iran stepped up the execution of women and exile of women political prisoners. This inhuman measure in violation of the prisoners’ rights ruined the New Year celebrations for their families, too.
UPDATE: 10:00 AM CEST
Coronavirus Disaster in 533 Cities in Iran Takes the Lives of 242,700 People
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) announced on Saturday, April 3, 2021, that the Coronavirus death toll in 533 cities across Iran had exceeded 242,700. The number of victims in Tehran has reached 55,976, Isfahan 15,805, Khorasan Razavi 15,665, Khuzestan 14,324, Mazandaran 10,350, Lorestan 10,248, East Azerbaijan 9,683, West Azerbaijan 9,103, Qom 8,725, Gilan 8,511, Fars 7,117, Golestan 6,260, Sistan and Baluchestan 5,611, Kerman 5,364, Central Province 5,038, Semnan 4,230, Qazvin 2,754, and Ilam 2,481.
#Iran Coronavirus Update
More than 242,700 people have died of the novel #coronavirus in 533 cities checkered across all of Iran's 31 provinces, according to the Iranian opposition PMOI/MEK.
Full Reporthttps://t.co/JhgTDF8qiB pic.twitter.com/1Ct6u8y7t6
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 3, 2021
Maryam Rajavi calls for a nationwide boycott of the mullahs’ presidential sham election
The Iranian people’s nationwide boycott of the mullahs’ presidential election sham is the flip side of popular uprisings, and yet another response to the murderers of 1500 blood-drenched martyrs of November 2019. #Iran #آری_به_جمهوری_دمکراتیکpic.twitter.com/98mjM2nUqN
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) April 3, 2021
Thousands of Iranians deprived of pension took to the streets on Sunday
April 4 – Cities across #Iran
Retirees and pensioners are holding protests across the country demanding their delayed pensions and seeking wage increases according to rising inflation."We will no longer vote as we've seen no justice," they say.#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/vd5jl3v8Iv
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 4, 2021
Social anger piles in Kazerun as the authorities fail to live up to their most basic duties
Kazerun, SW #Iran
These villagers are waiting in line to buy drinking water.While the regime funds its proxies in the region to carry out acts of terrorism and aggression, Iranians don't even have sanitary water. pic.twitter.com/tsZLM4MLK4
— Iran News Wire (@IranNW) April 3, 2021
Two Baha’i women jailed and five more summoned to serve their sentences
Two Baha’i women were transferred to the Prison of Bandar Abbas on Saturday, April 3, 2021, to serve their sentences.
The Revolutionary Court of Bandar Abbas sentenced Maral Rasti and Mahnaz Jan-Nesar to 2 years in prison, each, on the charge of “assembly and collusion against national security.”
The two Baha’i women had been initially arrested in spring 2017 along with six other Baha’i citizens but were later released temporarily on bail.
Iran’s Honeytrap for Ali Javanmardi in Iraq
“A court in the Iraqi Kurdish-state of Erbil sentenced Samira Morad-Pour, a female terrorist of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), to five years in prison for attempting to assassinate Ali Javanmardi, Iranian journalist with the U.S. citizenship on Tuesday, March 30,” wrote Avatoday.net directed by Javanmardi on the same day.
Read more: Iran News in Brief – April 3, 2021
