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UPDATE: 7:00 PM CEST
Iran: Coronavirus Update, Over 40,500 Deaths, May 10, 2020, 6:00 PM
NUMBER OF VICTIMS (AS OF MAY 10, 2020, 6:00 PM CEST):
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) announced this afternoon, May 10, 2020, that Coronavirus has taken the lives of more than 40,500 in 315 cities across Iran.
The death toll in various provinces include: 6790 in Tehran, 2720 in Gilan, 2165 in Khuzestan, 1230 in West Azerbaijan, 1070 in Lorestan, 1065 in Hamedan, 975 in Kermanshah, 925 in Semnan, 446 in Kerman. This is in addition to cases registered in other provinces.
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UPDATE: 4:30 PM CEST
Maryam Rajavi: The astounding rise in the Coronavirus death toll and the upward trend of the crisis in many provinces in Iran are due to the clerical regime’s inhuman policies
The only thing the mullahs are concerned about is to preserve their disgraceful rule.
The astounding rise in the #Coronavirus death toll and the upward trend of the crisis in many provinces in #Iran are due to the clerical regime’s inhuman policies. The only thing the mullahs are concerned about is to preserve their disgraceful rule #COVIDー19 pic.twitter.com/UFaRCYMIDR
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) May 10, 2020
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UPDATE: 3:30 PM CEST
Iran: Young people target IRGC, Bassij centers, torch Khamenei, Soleimani pictures in different cities
Despite the heightened security situation, defiant youth targeted centers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and the paramilitary Bassij, setting parts of them on fire.
The MEK Resistance Units inIran install huge banners of Iranian Resistance leaders Maryam Rajavi and Massoud Rajavi
They also took to graffiti in different cities.
The #MEK Resistance Units in #Iran install huge banners of Iranian Resistance leaders Maryam Rajavi and Massoud Rajavi. They also took to graffiti in different cities. #IranProtests pic.twitter.com/WHUDGXpaLv
— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) May 10, 2020
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UPDATE: 11:30 AM CEST
Iran: Coronavirus death toll exceeds 40,200 in 315 cities
In Tehran, Khuzestan, Semnan, Mazandaran, and Gilan, the number of patients is again rising, with 13% dying
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK) announced on Saturday, May 9, 2020, that the Coronavirus death toll in 315 cities in Iran has exceeded 40,200. The number of victims in Tehran is 6,750, Qom 3,330, Khuzestan 2,070, Golestan 1,250, Hamedan 1,050, Lorestan 1,045, Kurdistan 650, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari 341, and Hormozgan 170.
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UPDATE: 11:15 AM CEST
Maryam Rajavi: Under the Mullahs’ Rule, the People Are Extremely Vulnerable in the Face of Earthquakes and the Virus, Especially in Tehran, With a Population of 14 Million
It is a nationalist duty to aid the victims and partake in relief efforts in emergency situations. I call on Iran’s brave youth and women in the people’s councils to undertake the initiative in Tehran and other cities. #Iranhttps://t.co/QswE0r1rpQ
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) May 8, 2020
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UPDATE: 11:00 AM CEST
Maryam Rajavi: Silence vis-à-vis the atrocities perpetrated in prisons by the clerical regime is tantamount to disregard for humanitarian principles for which humankind has offered millions of victims
Silence vis-à-vis the atrocities perpetrated in prisons by the clerical regime is tantamount to disregard for humanitarian principles for which humankind has offered millions of victims #Covid_19 #Iran pic.twitter.com/UgTVgbmKzb
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) May 9, 2020
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UPDATE: 10:30 AM CEST
Iran Regime’s Official: The Stock Market Will Blow
“The riots caused by the bursting of the stock market bubble will be bigger than 2017 and November 2019”
In an interview with the state-run Fars News Agency, Ahmad Naderi, a member of the Iranian regime’s parliament from Tehran, from the supreme leader Ali Khamenei’s faction said: “The riots caused by the bursting of the stock market bubble will be bigger than 2017 and November 2019.”
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UPDATE: 10:00 AM CEST
320 arrested for “disrupting public opinion” in Iran’s coronavirus epidemic
Iran’s Chief of Police said today that 320 Iranians had been detained for what he called “disrupting public opinion” during Iran’s coronavirus epidemic.
In comments carried by the state-run ISNA News Agency, Hossein Ashtari said that the regime’s Cyber Police had also identified more than 1,300 websites that “spread rumors”.
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WHAT ARE THE IRAN PROTESTS OF 2019?
Sunday, May 10, 2020, marks the 178th day since the beginning of the nationwide Iran protests.
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) has identified 755 of the more than 1500 protesters killed by the regime so far.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has called on the United Nations to urgently send an international fact-finding mission to Iranian prisons to meet with the detainees.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE UPRISING:
Number of uprising cities: 191
Number of martyrs: At least 1500
Number of injured: More than 4,000
Number of detainees: More than 12,000
Read more: Latest News in Brief- May 9, 2020