Due to the regime’s mismanagement, this year, Iranians are bearing the brunt of a collapsed economy, some paying for bread in installments and standing in long lines for basic food items.
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Yemen Houthis Attack Saudi Energy Facilities, Refinery Output Hit
RIYADH, March 20 (Reuters) – Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group fired missiles and drones at Saudi energy and water desalination facilities, causing a temporary drop in output at a refinery but no casualties, the Saudi energy ministry, and state media said on Sunday.
Drone strikes hit a petroleum products distribution terminal in the southern Jizan region, a natural gas plant, and the Yasref refinery in the Red Sea port of Yanbu, the ministry said in a statement.
German Police Raided Hezbollah Centers in Western Part of the Country
The German newspaper Bild reported that the police in the city of Munster attacked centers that belonged to Lebanese Hezbollah operating under the pretext of religious scholarship. The attack took place on Saturday, March 19, at the mosque and the center called Imam Mehdi. The centers were closed for violating the German constitution. German police also raided the apartment of two leaders who were affiliated with Hezbollah.
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Condolences on the Passing of Dr. Manouchehr Hezarkhani
The Chair of the Culture and Art Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an author, a literary master, and a great freedom fighter, Dr. Manouchehr Hezarkhani, left us and became eternal. He was the preeminent intellectual and thinker of contemporary Iranian history.
Dr. Hezarkhani was a beloved friend to the Leader of the Iranian Resistance, Massoud Rajavi, for 40 years since the start of the Iranian people’s just Resistance on June 20, 1981, and after the NCRI’s foundation on July 21, 1981. I extend my profound and heartfelt condolences to his children and friends, the community of Iranian intellectuals and writers, his colleagues in the NCRI, and especially to Massoud Rajavi, the NCRI Chairman.
Geneva: Iranians Call On Un for Accountability of Iran’s Regime Over 1988 Massacre
Freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) in Geneva held an exhibition outside the United Nations European Headquarters in Geneva on Thursday, March 17, calling on the international body to hold the mullahs’ regime ruling Iran accountable for the 1988 massacre of over 30,000 political prisoners, consisting mostly of PMOI/MEK members and supporters. This gathering and exhibition coincided with the 49th annual session of the UN Human Rights Council discussing the human rights situation across the globe, including its yearly review of the human rights situation in Iran.
The Real Story Behind the Release of British Detainees From Iran
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested at a Tehran airport in April 2016. Later, she was convicted by an Iranian court of plotting to overthrow the clerical establishment. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who served most of her first sentence in Tehran’s Evin prison, was released in March 2020 during the Coronavirus pandemic and was kept under house arrest at her parents’ home in Tehran. In March 2021, she was released from house arrest but was summoned to court again on new charges. In April 2021, Zaghari-Ratcliffe was sentenced to a new term in jail on charges of propaganda against Iran’s ruling system, charges she denies.
More Death Sentences Carried Out in Iran
More death sentences have been carried out in Iran in recent days. At dawn on Wednesday, March 16, 2001, the death sentence of a male prisoner named Yousef Hashemi was carried out in Qazvin Prison. Yousef Hashemi was the father of a child, and his job was to repair alternators and car batteries before his arrest. He was accused of murder. He was in prison for four years and had previously been taken to the gallows. He had received a respite from the parents of the victim but could not satisfy them during this time.
Read more: Iran News in Brief – March 19, 2022