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UPDATE: 9:00 PM CET
Firefighters gathered today outside the Abadan Municipality
to demand their unpaid wages
Mar. 15 – Abadan, SW #Iran
Firefighters gathered today outside the Abadan Municipality to demand their unpaid wages and benefits. #IranProtests
It would seem as though the regime only pays its proxies in a timely manner. #42YearsofMisery pic.twitter.com/x7KlA7ACJP— Iran News Wire (@IranNW) March 15, 2021
UPDATE: 3:00 PM CET
Construction workers gathered today in Saqqez, western Iran
Mar. 14 – Saqqez, W #Iran
Construction workers gathered outside the Social Security Org. to demand their lack of insurance. #iranprotests pic.twitter.com/kFK6x0vhxm— Iran News Wire (@IranNW) March 14, 2021
UPDATE: 12:30 PM CET
Iran: Pensioners and Retirees Protests
Pensioners and retirees are protesting in Tehran and other cities across Iran. The protesters are demanding higher pensions as inflation, and essential goods’ prices continue to rise.
March 14 – Tehran, #Iran
Pensioners and retirees protesting and demanding higher pensions as inflation and prices of basic goods continue to rise.Similar rallies are reported from many other cities.#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/bnFn2YrAxZ
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 14, 2021
March 14 – Isfahan, central #Iran
Pensioners and retirees of the Social Security Organization protesting and demanding higher pensions as their living conditions continue to worsen.#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/BPfZGdSWuA— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 14, 2021
March 14 – Ahvaz, southwest #Iran
Retirees and pensioners rallying and chanting:"High prices and inflation are killing the nation!"
"Our country sits on treasures; retirees live in hardships!"#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/7KavxKmpQo— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 14, 2021
UPDATE: 10:00 AM CET
Coronavirus Disaster in Iran: The Fatalities in 518 Cities Exceeds 230,700
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) announced on Saturday, March 13, 2021, that the Coronavirus death toll in 518 cities had surpassed 230,700. The number of victims in Tehran is 54,091, Khorasan Razavi 15,120, Isfahan 14,955, Khuzestan 12,770, Mazandaran 9,802, Lorestan 9,683, West Azerbaijan 8,653, Qom 8,520, Golestan 5,999, Sistan and Baluchestan 5,401, Central Province 4,718, Semnan 3,760, North Khorasan 3,513, and Zanjan and Hormozgan provinces 2,510 each.
With no vaccine in sight, this is how Iranians commute to work in Tehran while the new variants of #COVID19 spread across the country.
To say that the regime cares nothing for the lives lost is an understatement. pic.twitter.com/tHTcjbFJUP
— Iran News Wire (@IranNW) March 13, 2021
Iran: Anti-regime protests are becoming more frequent and intense
Shorty after widespread protests in Sistan and Baluchestan province, another round of intense, anti-regime protests erupted in Iran, this time in the province of Hormozgan. On Friday, Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) forces in the town of Kuhestak opened fire on a group of Baluch fuel traders, leaving two 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. But protests continued despite the heavy atmosphere of repression and expanded to neighboring towns.
Human rights violations are the regime’s only means of survival
Last year, the Iranian people continued to witness the most violations of their rights by the Iranian regime.
In his report to the 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council, Mr. Javaid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, expressed concern and called on the Human Rights Council to pay special attention to human rights violations in Iran. Mr. Rehman based his report on news, and information available to him because the regime has not yet accepted his requests for a trip to Iran.
Injured fuel carrier passes away in SE Iran hospital
A fuel carrier who was injured last week by police in Mirjaveh southwestern Iran passed away in the hospital today due to the severity of his injuries.
On March 7, police opened fire on a car during a car chase, causing the car to overturn.
The father and son in the car were identified as Mazar and Attallah Gazouie. Attallah, the son, was killed on the scene but Mazar was severely injured and was transferred to the hospital. Local reports indicate that he was in a coma for a week in a hospital in Zahedan, the capital of Sistan and Baluchestan Province.
Government Corruption Affecting Nowruz for Iran’s People
It is hard to imagine, but traditional sweets for Iran’s upcoming Persian New Year, or Eid Nowruz, are this year directly affected by economic corruption.
Is it possible to find a healthy place in its politics and economy in a country that ranks 146th out of 180 countries according to Transparency International?
In a country where the news of embezzlement of hundreds of millions and the disappearance of millions of Tomans annually is common news.
The Assignment of 42 of Iran’s Wetlands to the Ministry of Energy
Following Iran’s controversial cases of the transfer of part of the Caspian Sea to the Russians, Chah Bahar port to the Indians, the assignment of the Damavand peak and the forest of Agh Mashhad, this time it is the turn of 42 wetlands that are to be transferred to the Ministry of Energy.
The news was shocking. “Forty-two wetlands are registered as the property of the Ministry of Energy.” Although there was also other shocking news on the transfer of other public and national wealth of the Iranian people to the regime’s officials or foreign countries, but these assignments will not reduce from the catastrophe of this case which is happening recently.
Read more: Iran News in Brief – March 13, 2021