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UPDATE: 7:15 PM CEST
Iran: Coronavirus Update, Over 39,800 Deaths, May 7, 2020, 6:00 PM
NUMBER OF VICTIMS (AS OF MAY 7, 2020, 6:00 PM CEST):
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) announced this afternoon, May 7, 2020, that Coronavirus has taken the lives of more than 39,800 in 314 cities across Iran. The death toll in various provinces include: 6650 in Tehran, 3290 in Qom, 2690 in Gilan, 1215 in West Azerbaijan, 1091 in Sistan and Baluchestan, 1005 in Lorestan, 985 in Hamed, 433 in North Khorasan, 135 in South Khorasan. This is in addition to cases registered in other provinces.
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UPDATE: 4:30 PM CEST
Iran Regime’s Latest COVID-19 Propaganda Involves Offloading Antibody Tests to Europe
State-affiliated media in Iran has been vigorously promoting the idea that the regime is not only effectively managing its own coronavirus outbreak but is actually helping the rest of the world to bring the pandemic under control.
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UPDATE: 12:30 PM CEST
Iranian women, advocates of Generation Equality and the Force for Change
Iranian women are true advocates of Generation Equality and the Force for Change in Iran. During crises like the COVID-19 pandemic, women make essential contributions as leaders and frontline responders. But they are also hit harder by the health, economic and social impacts of the outbreak.
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UPDATE: 12:10 PM CEST
Iran’s Space Launch Shows Necessity of Sanctions
By Dr. Alejo Vidal Quadras
On multiple levels, Iran’s recent launch of a military satellite was a warning to the world. Coming in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, it was perhaps the most evident confirmation of the clerical regime’s misplaced priorities. And by utilizing an entirely new type of domestically-produced rocket, the launch flew in the face of a United Nations Security Council resolution calling upon Iran to avoid work on any device that could double as delivery systems for a nuclear weapon.
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UPDATE: 11:30 AM CEST
Iran: Coronavirus Fatalities Exceed 39,500 in 314 Cities
According to regime’s Health Ministry sending people to work has doubled the number of patients in four days
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK) announced on Wednesday, May 6, 2020, that the Coronavirus death toll has exceeded 39,500 in 314 cities. The number of victims in Tehran is 6560, Khuzestan 2015, Lorestan 990, Fars 1005, Kurdistan 640, Qazvin 445, Bushehr 435, and Hormozgan 163.
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UPDATE: 11:00 AM CEST
Corruption in the Mullahs’ Regime Ruling Iran-Part 2
IRGC Mafia Corruption in the mullahs’ regime
The coronavirus pandemic has different consequences. Creating inclusive fear, disease, and death, forcing people to stay home, unemployment, and preventing small or big economies from flourishing are its negative aspects. Creating mobility, dynamism in some societies to combat this virus by increasing a sense of collaboration, reinforcing public and hygienic attitudes, increasing social solidarity, dynamism, and the spirit of sacrifice in some countries are the positive aspects of this virus.
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Iran: Teachers, miners and municipality workers hold protest rallies
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UPDATE: 10:30 AM CEST
Iran’s latest Ponzi scheme will sow the seeds of major social protests
While the world’s largest and most famous stock markets in the United States, Europe and Asia have tanked during the coronavirus crisis, the index on the Tehran Stock Exchange has astonishing grown by an 80%, and the stock market index has grown by an average of 100,000 units per week.
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UPDATE: 10:00 AM CEST
Iranian Resistance publishes names of 20, including six women, under torture
The Iranian Resistance issued a statement on May 5, 2020, publishing the names and pictures of 20 Iranians including six women and two elite students from Sharif Industrial University who have been arrested in Tehran and other cities. The secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran said these are among the many who have been arrested in recent months.
The six arrested women are: Nahid Fat’halian, Parastoo Mo’ini, Zahra Safaei, Forough Taghipour, Marzieh Farsi from Tehran and Somayeh Bidi from Karaj.
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Iran news in brief, May 7, 2020
Iran: Coronavirus Fatalities Exceed 39,500 in 314 Cities
Iran: 700 Pregnant Women, 240 Midwives, Test Positive for Coronavirus
Iran: Another Physician Dies Due to the Coronavirus
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WHAT ARE THE IRAN PROTESTS OF 2019?
Thursday, May 7, 2020, marks the 175th 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 6, 2020
