Iran News in Brief – September 24, 2020

Hamideh Taati

4 years ago

Chalus is a city in Mazandaran Province in north of Iran. Chalus is a major vacation destination for Iranians during holidays for its nice weather and natural attractions. Because of the Iranian regime’s negligence the coronavirus death toll in Mazandaran Province has reached 5,207.

Chalus2_24092020-1 — Chalus is a city in Mazandaran Province in north of Iran. Chalus is a major vacation destination for Iranians during holidays for its nice weather and natural attractions. Because of the Iranian regime’s negligence the coronavirus death toll in Mazandaran Province has reached 5,207.

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UPDATE: 4:30 PM CEST

AP Image coverage of the Iran Policy Summit

The conference brought together bipartisan U.S. lawmakers from the House and the Senate and from Europe as well as Iranians around the world from 10,000 locations.

The President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran Maryam Rajavi listens to Senator Roy Blunt, chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee; Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX); Senator Joseph Lieberman, Vice-presidential candidate in the US election 2000; Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), as they address the Trans-Atlantic Summit on Iran Policy, Time to Hold the Iranian Regime Accountable, held at Ashraf 3, on September 18, 2020.

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Deterioration of Human Rights – Iran’s Reign of Terror at Home and Abroad
Online Conference

Deterioration of Human Rights
Iran’s Reign of Terror at Home and Abroad
Online Conference
Sept 23, 2020
1600 CEST#Iran #NoImpunity4Mullahs https://t.co/LxF9MkHjow

— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) September 23, 2020

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Khamenei Compares COVID-19 Crisis To Iran-Iraq War Calling It a Blessing

During his speech on the anniversary of Iran-Iraq war, the Iranian regime’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei admitted once again to the regime’s criminal policy of using COVID-19 to control society, by comparing the situation with the time of war saying that it had been a blessing for the regime.

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UPDATE: 9:00 AM CEST

Iran: Coronavirus Fatalities in 440 Cities Surpass 108,200

The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) announced on September 23, 2020, that the number of Coronavirus fatalities in 440 cities had exceeded 108,200. The number of victims in Khorasan Razavi is 7,982, Khuzestan 6,971, Isfahan 5,249, Mazandaran 5,207, Qom 4,840, Gilan 4,396, East Azerbaijan 3,383, Fars 2,976, Hamedan 2,802, Kurdistan 2,061, North Khorasan 1,909, Kerman 1,701, Hormozgan 1,475, Central Province 1,413, Semnan 1,411, Bushehr 1,335, Ardabil 1,305, and South Khorasan 722.

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Relocation of Arab Political Prisoners Raises Concern About Secret Execution

Four Arab political prisoners have been transferred to an undisclosed location from Sheiban Prison in Ahwaz, in the southwest province of Khuzestan.

On Thursday, September 17, Ali Motiri, Ali Khasraji, 27, Hossein Silavi, 31, and Ali Mojadam, 39, were transferred from Sheyban prison to an unknown location.

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Iran regime is world’s record holder of the executions of women

Executions are cruelly unjust.
We have published a list of the women executed during Rouhani’s tenure.
The Iranian Resistance calls for abolishment of death penalty in Iran.https://t.co/1evcie7tsE

— Women's Committee NCRI (@womenncri) September 23, 2020

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Iran: Defiant Youths Target Centers of Repression and Plunder of the Mullahs To Protest Execution of Detained Protesters

Defiant youth targeted centers of repression and plunder, also centers for spreading terrorism and extremism to voice outrage at the execution of the Iranian wrestling champion Navid Afkari and Mostafa Salehi, detained during the December 2017-January 2018 uprising, and at the death sentences of other uprising prisoners and their torture.

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