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UPDATE: 10:30 PM CEST
Thursday Protests in Iran
On Thursday, Iranian workers, farmers, and teachers in different cities, from north to south, held rallies and protested the regime’s failure to care for their poor living standards and pay their wages.
Workers of Hafttappeh Company went on strike and rallied in front of the management’s office. The workers want their due wages paid, their fired colleagues returned to work, the contracts of seasonal workers and those in the pest control section extended, as well as the cultivation operations, and factory repairs executed.
A group of teachers from Qom province gathered in front of the provincial office of the Ministry of Education. The teachers pledged for increased wages for employed teachers and equal pay for retired teachers among other demands. Similar protests were held in Arak.
Farmers in Isfahan held a rally today and protested in front of the office from the parliament member who was supposed to be responsible for this constituency.
Iranians Protest as Former Iranian Official Faces Justice
Today, Iranians and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization protested in Stockholm where Hamid Noury, one of the perpetrators of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners is being tried by the Swedish judicial system.
Former MP Warns of Protests
Soheila Jelodarzadeh, a former member of the regime’s parliament, warned: “If no action is taken about people’s livelihoods, there will be protests.”
According to the state-run newspaper ‘Kar-o-Kargar’, Jelodarzadeh said: “The majority of the population lives below the poverty line. People’s purchasing power has never been this low. The government should not spend its time on staged activities. People’s resilience has limits, and people can only put up with it to some extent. When they see that they have nothing to lose, they do not wait for us to allow them to protest.”
UPDATE: 9:30 PM CEST
Another Political Prisoner on Deathrow
The death sentence of Shaker Behroozi, a political prisoner from Urmia, was once again upheld by the Iranian regime’s judiciary. In July this year, the Supreme Court questioned the verdict but it was once again confirmed, charging Mr. Behroozi for the murder of a member of the Revolutionary Guards. On Tuesday, September 28, Shaker Behroozi was officially notified of the confirmation of the death sentence in Urmia Central Prison.
UPDATE: 9:00 PM CEST
State Sources Warn Inflation in Iran Could Reach 60 Percent
“Today, the economy is in serious danger, and any wrong decision in this regard could put the system on a difficult path,” said Majid Reza Hariri, President of Iran-China Chamber of Commerce.
According to ISNA, reports of the Statistics Center and the Central Bank suggest the inflation rate in recent months has always been above 40% and the increase has not stopped yet. Some analysts say that if the current trend continues, it will be possible for inflation to reach even 60 percent.
The Foreign Ministry Will Follow the Path of Ghassem Soleimani, Amir-Abdollahian Vowed
In order to strengthen the dominance of the Quds terrorist force over the regime’s foreign policy, the Esmail Qaani Commander of the Revolutionary Guards Quds Force visited Hussein Amir-Abdollahian’s office at the regime’s Foreign Ministry and said: “The Quds Force is a soldier without borders who has a great deal to contribute to nation’s security.”
During the meeting, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian ensured Qaani: “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic will follow the path of Qassem Soleimani.”
UPDATE: 8:30 PM CEST
Benelux Demands Accountability for Human Rights Abuses in Iran
At the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, the Belgian representative, speaking on behalf of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg (Benelux) said: “In Iran, the number of reported cases of human rights violations is high. Of course, these only reflect the tip of the iceberg.”
He stressed on behalf of the three European countries that we must ensure that the perpetrators of repeated violations and retaliatory actions, such as what happened to Vahid Afkari (Navid Afkari’s brother), are brought to justice and that attention is paid to these cases.
The Belgian representative added: “We are counting on the UN Assistant Secretary-General, the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights for Iran, and other UN rapporteurs to follow up on these cases.”
UPDATE: 3:30 PM CEST
State Media Slams High Ranking Cleric as Anti-Vaxxer
Slamming a cleric who keeps promoting anti-vaxxers’ rhetoric in Iran, state-run ‘Chand-Sanyeh’, wrote: “Please do not play with people’s nerves! People have enough problems, and it is better not to confuse their minds with baseless words!”
Warning of social outrage, the site added: “After all, how can a cleric talk about vaccines and ask the radio and television to cover anti-vaccine movements around the world? This happens at a time when the only way to fight Coronavirus mortality is to get vaccinated.”
Alireza Panahian, who happens to be the founder and vice chief of Ammar Headquarters claimed yesterday that even the most senior French physicians are resisting Covid-19 vaccines. Last month, he said that Bill Gates has produced the Coronavirus in order to reduce the world’s population by 15% with his own vaccine.
Iranians Don’t Trust Domestic Vaccines
In an article for the state-run Jahan-e-Sanat, Mohammad-Reza Mahboubfar, an Iranian health expert, wrote: “The number of people opposing vaccines and those who have not yet come to the country’s vaccination centers to receive their shots is increasing. The main concern that makes people refuse to attend vaccination centers is the limitation of the vaccine variations in the country, and some people prefer to go beyond the available options to inject other vaccines such as Pfizer, Modern, etc.”
The piece continued: “Existing vaccines like Sinofarm and Barakat, are still in clinical trials stage three. Only Barakat has received emergency approval from health institutes and for Sinofarm, the World Health Organization has issued an emergency approval.”
Mahboubefar added: “The unwillingness of the Iranian people to inject the existing vaccines and the failure of collective immunity against the virus is to blame on those who delayed the vaccination of the country’s population for eight months with self-imposed sanctions and false promises of producing domestic vaccines. Upon drowning people in various peaks and waves of the pandemic, they are still insisting on their previous statements.”
UPDATE: 12:30 PM CEST
Hundreds Paid Respect to an Executed Man in Isfahan
Today, Abbas Gholi Salehi, who was hanged yesterday after spending 20 years of his life in Isfahan prison, was buried in Yazdanshahr, Isfahan. Hundreds of people from Isfahan attended the ceremony and said farewell to his body. Abbas Gholi Salehi, 42, was executed by the regime’s judiciary on Wednesday morning, September 29.
During the funeral ceremony, a large crowd of friends and family members of Abbas Gholi Salehi accompanied his casket, while a rebellious march was being played for the audience.
Another Young Man Executed in Iran
Iranian regime’s judiciary executed a prisoner in Zahedan prison at dawn on Wednesday, September 29. The name of this citizen, who has spent 9 years of his life in prison, was Yasin Abdollahi. He was about 30 years old.
UPDATE: 8:30 AM CEST
Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll Takes the Lives of 443,200
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) announced on Wednesday, September 29, 2021, that the Coronavirus death toll in 547 cities had exceeded 443,200. The number of victims in Tehran has reached 103,906, Khorasan Razavi 36,345, Isfahan 29,580, Khuzestan 27,165, Fars 15,899, West Azerbaijan 15,868, Gilan 15,515, Lorestan 14,865, Alborz 12,968, Hamedan 8,333, Central Province 8,108, Hormozgan 7,540, Kermanshah 7,934, Kurdistan 6,992, Ardabil 5,575, Bushehr 5,019, Qazvin 4,914, Zanjan 4,290, and Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad 3,204.
“They Executed All but Three Inmates in Our Ward”—Former Political Prisoner Testifies in Hamid Nouri Trial
Tuesday marked the seventeenth session of the trial of Hamid Nouri, a prison guard charged with torturing inmates in Iran’s prison and taking part in the 1988 massacre of thousands of political prisoners. Nouri is being tried in a Swedish court after being apprehended during a trip to the country. As one of the authorities of Gohardasht Prison (Karaj), Nouri is now standing trial in a court in Stockholm, where many of his victims are giving harrowing testimonies of how he and other regime officials brutally tortured prisoners.
Iran Reopens Schools Amid Sixth COVID-19 Wave
The sixth coronavirus wave and more dangerous variants are on the way, according to Iranian state media. “While concerns over the continuation of the fifth wave have not yet been completely resolved, some are warning about an upcoming sixth coronavirus wave in Iran and discussing the beginning of the next pandemic wave,” reads a piece in the state-run Hamdeli newspaper citing Iranian health experts.
Swiss Federal Court Ruling on the Murder of Dr. Kazem Rajavi by Iran’s MOIS
The murder of a renowned Iranian opposition member Kazem Rajavi on April 24, 1990, in the Lake Geneva municipality of Coppet was one of the most nefarious crimes in Swiss criminal history which also has an eminently political component. According to the findings of the Vaudois judiciary, the perpetrators were a 13-man killer squad commissioned by the then Iranian secret service minister Ali Fallahian to eliminate the 56-year-old lawyer and university professor, Kazem Rajavi, who represented the main opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Switzerland.
Honor Killings of Young Women in Iran Going Unpunished Due to Misogynistic Laws
In the past few weeks, stories of honor killings in Iran have been making headlines in the news across the country with young women being murdered by their husbands or male relatives. In such cases, the police and the judiciary are deemed to be acting negligently in preventing these murders from happening or prosecuting the men involved following the criminal acts, effectively giving these men the ‘license to kill’. This notion appears to be true in the cases of Romina Ashrafi who was murdered by her father in Gilan and Sargol Habibi from Sanandaj who was killed by her husband, as well as the case of Bayan and Sahar Moradi who were murdered by Bayan’s husband, after legal complaints that were put forward by Bayan of her husband’s previous acts of violence were ignored.
The Many Restrictions Iranian Mothers Face, the Rights They Do Not Enjoy
The many restrictions Iranian mothers face and the many rights they do not enjoy. According to a news article published by a semi-official newspaper in Tehran, the clerical regime’s Education Ministry will no longer hand over the children’s report cards to their mothers. The article by Sharq on September 13, 2021, cited a text message from the ministry to some parents. The text message indicated, “despite all due respects to mothers, the report card of your child will only be handed over to the father or the paternal grandfather.”