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UPDATE: 10:30 PM CET
Locals set fire to marine police boats in Kuhestak, southern Iran
Regime authorities in the town of Kuhestak of Hormozgan province in southern Iran opened fire on a number of fuel traders on Friday, leaving two Baluchi community locals killed and injured. In response protesters took to the streets and clashed with authorities in the port of Kuhestak. The regime’s security forces opened fire on the protesters, leaving a third protester injured with a gunshot wound to his leg.
Angry over authorities opening fire on local fuel traders, people have expanded their protests to various parts of this town and even set several police patrol boats on fire.
UPDATE: 2:30 PM CET
Iran: Marine police opened fire on fuel traders, leaving two killed and injured
March 12 – Kuhestak, southern #Iran
Marine police opened fire on fuel traders, leaving two killed & injured. Outraged locals began clashing with the police & authorities opened fire on the protesters, leaving one injured. Protests expanded & locals set authorities' boats ablaze. pic.twitter.com/OLhWEjru6t— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 12, 2021
Iranians Continue Protests; at Least Eight Rallies and Strikes on March 10
On Wednesday, March 10, the people of Iran staged at least eight rallies and protests in different cities over officials’ failure to meet their inherent demands. Most of the protests took place in southern provinces like Khuzestan, Hormozgan, and Sistan and Bluchestan.
Water and sewage staff, college students, contract forces of Power Company, green-space workers, lost shareholders, and oil workers held these rallies in various cities of the country. They expressed their anger over the regime’s failure to meet their demands.
UPDATE: 9:00 AM CET
Iran: Coronavirus Fatalities in 518 Cities Exceed 229,600
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) announced on Thursday, March 11, 2021, that the Coronavirus death toll in 518 cities had surpassed 229,600. The number of victims in Tehran is 53,911, Khorasan Razavi 15,070, Isfahan 14,870, Khuzestan 12,615, Mazandaran 9,747, Lorestan 9,623, West Azerbaijan 8,608, Golestan 5,965, Hamedan 5,338, Central Province 4,683, Kermanshah 4,629, Yazd 4,177, Kurdistan 3,962, Semnan 3,720, Ilam 2,356, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari 1,845, and Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad 1,729.
#Iran Coronavirus Update
More than 229,600 people have died of the novel #coronavirus in 518 cities checkered across all of Iran's 31 provinces, according to the Iranian opposition PMOI/MEK.
Full Reporthttps://t.co/j2jPdPmMP4 pic.twitter.com/GxfWIcpTX7
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 11, 2021
Iran: Labor protests in several cities over unpaid wages, poor working conditions
#Iran: Labor protests in several cities over unpaid wages, poor working conditions#IranProtestshttps://t.co/WQjOhw6Dmj
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 11, 2021
Water and sewage workers in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad province gathered in front of the provincial governor’s office on Wednesday and protested the government neglecting their demands. These workers have held protest rallies several times before and are saying that during the hard times imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, they are hard pressed to provide the most basic needs for their families.
Iranian women’s participation and decision-making in public life – Report to CSW65
“Women’s full and effective participation and decision-making in public life” is the principal theme in 65th meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women in United Nations in March 2021. This study is a review of Iranian women’s participation and decision making in public life.
This subject would be assessed in Iran under the rule of current regime, knowing that the ruling religious fascism in Iran, since its inception, was founded on misogyny, marginalizing women, and turning Iranian women into second-class citizens.
Iran HRM: Imprisoned civil activist Sepideh Qolian was transferred to Bushehr Prison
Imprisoned civil activist Sepideh Qolian was transferred to Bushehr Prison on Wednesday. She was serving a 5-year-sentence in Evin Prison.#Iran #HumanRights pic.twitter.com/lPJtfy3zd7
— IRAN HRM (@IranHrm) March 11, 2021
Video report: 42 Years of Misogyny
Iran: The next uprising will take the country by storm
In 1978, a year before the fall of the dictatorship of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the then United States President Jimmy Carter called Iran the “Island of Stability.” However, public outrage at decades of repression led to the 1979 anti-monarchy revolution.
Today, some media, under the influence of so-called “Iran experts,” attempt to portray the Iranian regime as a stable power and a weight of balance in the Middle East.
But five nationwide uprisings since 2018 and continued anti-regime demonstrations across the country in recent years have revealed the baselessness of this illusion.
Iran’s Crises Are Mullahs’ Fault, Say State Media
The state-run media in Iran is starting to admit that the social and economic crises faced by the population are down to mismanagement by the mullahs and the country is ready to explode in rebellion.
Mohammad Reza Mahboubfar, a regime sociologist, told the state-run Eghtesad-e Pooya daily that there is a “very rapid spread of poverty” in Iran.
Iran news in brief, March 12, 2021
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