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Saturday Protests in Iran
While the regime’s officials are fighting among themselves on how to do powersharing, ordinary people on the streets are still protesting to receive their most basic rights. Today, different cities in Iran witnessed another wave of street protests and rallies demanding social and economical justice.
August 28 – Tehran, #Iran
Teachers and educators rallying in the Iranian capital demanding answers to their long-raised issues that have gone neglected by regime officials.#IranProtestspic.twitter.com/VlEKEwaaSd— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) August 28, 2021
August 28 – Omidiyeh, southwest #Iran
Municipality workers rallying and protesting for answers to their long-raised demands and delayed paychecks.#IranProtestspic.twitter.com/JIexp6B3m3— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) August 28, 2021
Aug. 28 – Omidieh, SW #Iran
One of the municipal workers shows the body of his ailing son/says he doesn't have enough money to take him to the doctor.
"I haven't received my wages for 5 months. I'm ashamed when I go home and my wife asks me, 'are you working?'" #IranProtests pic.twitter.com/2hBZumYduK— Iran News Wire (@IranNW) August 28, 2021
UPDATE: 10:30 AM CEST
U.S. Treasury Punishes Rumanian Bank for Violating Iran Sanctions Program
On Friday evening EST, the U.S Treasury Department issued a statement, announcing: First Bank SA, located in Romania, and its U.S. parent company, JC Flowers & Co. (collectively, “Respondent”), have agreed to remit $862,318 to settle potential civil liability for First Bank’s processing of transactions in apparent violation of OFAC’s Iran and Syria sanctions programs.
UPDATE: 8:30 AM CEST
Maryam Rajavi: The Call-for-Justice Movement Is Synonymous With Resistance To Overthrow the Clerical Regime for Freedom
Thirty-three years ago, in the summer of 1988, Khomeini issued a fatwa (a religious decree) to execute all imprisoned members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), who remained steadfast. Some 30,000 political prisoners, 90% of whom were PMOI members, were subsequently executed. The mass killing quickly spread to other prisoners.
Iran: Over 389,000 Deaths, Lambda Cases Found in Turkey
Over 389,000 people have died of the novel coronavirus in 547 cities checkered across all of Iran’s 31 provinces, according to reports tallied by the Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) as of Friday afternoon local time, August 27. The official death toll declared by the regime stands at 105,287 around a fourth of the actual figure.
The coronavirus death toll in various provinces include: 91,346 in Tehran, 27,985 in Razavi Khorasan, 25,680 in Isfahan, 23,956 in Khuzestan, 15,120 in Mazandaran, 14,068 in East Azerbaijan, 13,792 in Fars, 13,690 in Lorestan, 13,648 in West Azerbaijan, 13285 in Gilan, 11,615 in Sistan & Baluchistan, 11,343 in Alborz, 10,945 in Qom, 10,078 in Kerman, 9310 in Golestan, 6848 in Kermanshah, 6740 in Hormozgan, 6728 in Yazd, 6147 in Kurdistan, 5745 in Semnan, 4825 in Ardabil, 4469 in Bushehr, 3848 in Ilam, and 3070 in Chaharmahal & Bakhtiari. This is in addition to reports obtained from other provinces.
#Iran Coronavirus Update
More than 389,000 people have died of the novel #coronavirus in 547 cities checkered across all of Iran's 31 provinces, according to the Iranian opposition PMOI/MEK.
Full Reporthttps://t.co/BdDsBsvffP pic.twitter.com/jau7L3oHwr
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) August 28, 2021
Iran: Institutionalized Corruption and a Collapsed Economy
Since the mullahs’ regime seized power in Iran following the 1979 revolution, the country has been on a path of negative growth and economic decline. The regime has been plundering the nation’s wealth and resources, devastating industrial production and growth as a result, all to further its own objectives. The regime’s economic bankruptcy has reached a point that the regime’s media and economic experts are saying that compensating for the annual fiscal budget deficit has become extremely difficult and even impossible, given that the economy relies heavily on oil and tax revenues.
Read more: Iran News in Brief – August 27, 2021
