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The Iranian Society Continues To Suffer but Does Not Give In
Iranians from Tehran to South West of the country rallied and protested on Saturday against the state policies that have caused nothing but misery and hardship for their families.
Apr. 17 – Tehran, #Iran
Teachers from all over Iran gathered today outside the Court of Administrative Justice to protest a court decision that invalidates their years of service. #IranProtests pic.twitter.com/W2KhTizj5T— Iran News Wire (@IranNW) April 17, 2021
Apr. 17 – Tehran, #Iran
Teachers gathered outside the Court of Administrative Justice chant “We will not accept injustice and will get our rights!” and “Teachers cry out for your rights!” #IranProtests pic.twitter.com/Ub8JcvHi16— Iran News Wire (@IranNW) April 17, 2021
Apr. 17 – Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, SW #Iran
Farmers marched on the streets today to protest the theft of their water. #IranProtests pic.twitter.com/8kaZmakNE9— Iran News Wire (@IranNW) April 17, 2021
Apr. 17 – Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, SW #Iran
Farmers marched on the streets today to protest the diversion of their water resources by the government. #IranProtests pic.twitter.com/f4WmnRqbfk— Iran News Wire (@IranNW) April 17, 2021
Apr. 17- Khorramshahr, SW #Iran
Municipal workers gathered today to demand their unpaid wages and benefits. #IranProtests pic.twitter.com/COIwGulwws— Iran News Wire (@IranNW) April 17, 2021
#IranProtests
Tehran—IKCO shareholders, who face an 80% disadvantage, rallied protesting employers' fraud.
"Parliament, government, competition assembly, and industry ministry, stop hostage-taking the automating and auto parts industries. Don't fill fixers' pocket anymore"—Banner pic.twitter.com/U8iydMovgs— Iran News Update (@IranNewsUpdate1) April 17, 2021
#IranProtests
Bushehr—forcing officials to increase their salaries, workers of Liduma company, the Phase 13 of South Pars Project in Bandar-e Kangan, launched a strike.
Despite the increasing inflation rate and backbreaking prices, employers refrain from raising workers' wages. pic.twitter.com/AUM2d8Kq2w— Iran News Update (@IranNewsUpdate1) April 17, 2021
UPDATE: 8:00 AM CEST
Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll in 539 Cities Exceeds 254,300
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) announced on Friday, April 16, 2021, that the Coronavirus death toll in 539 cities had surpassed 254,300. The number of victims in Tehran has reached 58,141, Isfahan 16,615, Khorasan Razavi 16,290, Khuzestan 15,314, Mazandaran 10,775, Lorestan 10,728, East Azerbaijan 10,383, West Azerbaijan 9,563, Qom 8,915, Gilan 8,906, Fars 7,502, Golestan 6,525, Alborz 6,393, Sistan and Baluchestan 5,781, Hamedan 5,733, Kerman 5,689, Central Province 5,263, Yazd 4,542, Semnan 4,500, Kurdistan 4,402, Qazvin 2,909, Hormozgan 2,895, Zanjan 2,780, Ilam 2,626, and Bushehr 2,594.
#Iran Coronavirus Update
More than 254,200 people have died of the novel #coronavirus in 539 cities checkered across all of Iran's 31 provinces, according to the Iranian opposition PMOI/MEK.
Full Reporthttps://t.co/NCWbEW00km pic.twitter.com/hEo9CL6KTA
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) April 16, 2021
Continued protests have pushed Iran’s regime into a deadlock
Recent days have seen recurring social protests across Iran. On Wednesday, retirees and pensioners of the Social Security Organization in Iran took to the street for the eleventh series of organized protests in 23 cities in the last three months. They chanted “We will only restore our rights by coming to the streets,” “Injustice is enough, our food table is empty,” “We will not vote anymore. We’ve heard too many lies,” and “Down with (Hassan) Rouhani.”
Natanz explosion weakens Khamenei’s stance in talks
The Iranian regime has designated April 10 as Iran’s National Day of Nuclear Technology. Every year on such a day, the regime flaunts its nuclear might. However, this year, one day after Iran’s National Day of Nuclear Technology, an explosion — apparently caused by an Israeli attack — damaged Iran’s main nuclear enrichment site, in the city center city of Natanz.
Iran: Eleven Executions in Six Days
In the past six days, authorities in Iran hanged at least 11 inmates in six different prisons. At dawn on Monday, April 12, the government hanged Arsalan Zare at Adilabad Prison in Shiraz, the capital of Fars province. He was a farmer and had been kept behind bars for 15 years.
Iran Government’s Delay In Public Vaccination Tantamount to a Crime
Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei and its president Hassan Rouhani are watching the people’s death by the coronavirus. The situation is so severe that even now some of the officials in the country are protesting and warning the regime over its ignorance.
Iran news in brief, April 17, 2021
Read more: Iran News in Brief – April 16, 2021
