Iran News in Brief – July 12, 2022

Hamideh Taati

2 years ago

THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS

UPDATE: 9:30 AM CEST

The Belgian Parliament Has an Important Decision To Make on Thursday

As the Belgian parliament prepares to vote on a bill that will legalize prisoner swaps with the Iranian regime, Europe’s security and the security of thousands of Iranian dissidents hang in the balance. Should the bill be ratified, Assadollah Assadi, a convicted diplomat terrorist who was caught red-handed as he tried to bomb a large rally of the Iranian Resistance in Paris in 2018, will be returned to Iran in exchange for a Belgian national who has been held hostage by Tehran.

New COVID Wave Sweeps Across Iran

The destructive policies of the mullahs’ regime ruling Iran, refusing to provide reliable vaccines, and the lack of necessary equipment and necessities to provide urgently needed medical care have once again left the Iranian people defenseless and vulnerable in the face of a new coronavirus wave spreading across the country at an alarming rate. “The daily death toll due to Covid-19 has reached double figures. In the past 24 hours, we have identified 2,375 new cases. Four cities are registered as red zones, 14 are orange, and 142 are yellow,” according to a statement released on Sunday, July 11, by the regime’s Health Ministry.

Iran’s Medicine Crisis

The pharmaceutical industry in Iran is undergoing an unprecedented crisis. The industry is on the verge of bankruptcy and for some time now, even state media has been warning about the dire situation of production and smuggling in the import and export of medicine. These details debunk the talking points parroted by the Iranian regime’s network of apologists and lobbyists in the West, and place the blames for Iran’s medicine crisis on the regime and the regime alone.

Inmates Deliberately Starved in the Central Prison of Urmia

The ration for food and bread for female prisoners in the Central Prison of Urmia has been cut down. More than 40 prisoners do not receive meals every day.

An informed source in the women’s ward of the Central Prison of Urmia said, “Over the past few days, the ration of dry bread has been reduced to one piece per day. In addition, because of shortage of food, every day, more than 40 inmates do receive their meals.”

Why Tehran Resorts to ‘Bad-Hijab’ Offenses?

On July 5, the Iranian regime’s state media reported that the deputy attorney-general in Mashhad, the capital of the northeastern Iranian province Razavi Khorasan, had ordered governmental offices to not provide services to “bad-hijab” [improperly-veiled] women. The ruling mullahs in Iran regularly use ‘bad hijab’ in reference to women who defy their restrictive misogynistic measures. The ‘Islamic Republic’ constitution forces women and girls older than nine to cover their hair entirely when in public.

Stockholm: Gathering of Freedom-Loving Iranians, MEK Supporters to Protest the Ridiculous Circus of the Regime’s Mercenaries—July 11, 2022

Stockholm, July 11, 2022: The Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS) of the Mullahs’ regime, in fear of the announcement of the executioner Hamid Noury‘s sentence by the Stockholm court and the large demonstrations of Iranians the following Thursday and Saturday, organized an exhibition in front of the Swedish Parliament in defense of Noury and against the PMOI/MEK on Monday, July 11.