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UPDATE: 23:00 PM CEST
Massoud Rajavi, the Leader of the Iranian Resistance:
Disband the IRGC and allocate its funding to combatting the coronavirus pandemic as well as the provision of health care and medical treatment to Iranian patients. If the ruling theocracy does not seek to engage in suppression, warmongering, and terrorism, one military would suffice. It should not burden the suffering and deprived people of Iran with the auxiliary costs of the IRGC.
If the ruling theocracy does not seek to engage in suppression, warmongering, and terrorism, one military would suffice. It should not burden the suffering and deprived people of Iran with the auxiliary costs of the IRGC.
— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) August 16, 2020
UPDATE: 17:45 PM CEST
Iran protests by sugarcane workers
Workers of the Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Company on Sunday, August 16, continued their protests and strike for the 63rd day in Shush, Khuzestan province, southwest Iran, according to the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or Mujahedin-e Khalq, MEK).
Workers of the Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Company on Sunday, August 16, continue their protests and strike for the 63rd day in Shush, Khuzestan province, southwest Iran.#IranProtests#اعتراضات_سراسری pic.twitter.com/RBFMOCzJ6y
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) August 16, 2020
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UPDATE: 10:30 AM CEST
Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll in 383 Cities Exceeds 89,000
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) announced on Saturday, August 15, 2020, that the Coronavirus death toll in 383 cities across Iran had exceeded 89,000. The number of victims in Khorasan Razavi is 6,443, Khuzestan 6,135, Qom 4,420, Mazandaran 4,225, Isfahan 3,921, Gilan 3,712, Lorestan 3,662, Sistan and Baluchestan 2,831, Alborz 2,640, West Azerbaijan 2,560, Fars 2,513, Golestan 2,504, Kurdistan 1,779, North Khorasan 1,377, Kerman 1,358, Hormozgan 1,159, Bushehr 1,065, Yazd 1,025, Zanjan 831, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari 587, and Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad 495.
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A Detained Protester Transferred to Solitary Confinement, He Is at Risk of Execution
Political prisoner Abbas Mohammadi, a protester detained during the nationwide Iran protests in 2018, has been transferred to solitary confinement and his execution is imminent.
Abbas and four other protesters detained since 2018 are sentenced to two times execution on the charges of “waging war on God”. The five men, all in their 20s, have said to the court that they were tortured to make confessions.
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MEK Resistance Units support strikes by Iran’s oil industry workers
In their latest activities, Iranian Resistance Units, the internal network of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), expressed their support for the ongoing strike of employees and workers of Iran’s oil, natural gas, and petrochemical industries.
In their continued activities on August 13 across the country, the Resistance Units installed banners and handwritten slogans on walls supporting the strike of Iran’s oil industry workers, who have been on strike for two weeks for their basic rights.
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In Iran, corrupt practices are protected by the highest authority
In a recent interview on state television, the head Bonyad Mostazafan foundation acknowledged the prevalence of corruption among the Iran’s senior officials. As the head of Bonyad Mostazafan, or the “Foundation of the Oppressed,” Parviz Fattah ostensibly oversees the legal confiscation of property and the dissemination of proceeds to charitable causes. But as his interview noted, in practice he often watches as the foundation’s revenue is co-opted by Iranian regimes authorities for their own personal enrichment, or for spending on pet projects that serve the interests of the clerical regime but not the Iranian people.
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WHAT ARE THE IRAN PROTESTS OF 2019?
Sunday, August 16, 2020, marks the 274th 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
