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UPDATE: 7:10 PM CEST
Iran: Coronavirus Update, Over 70,800 Deaths, July 14, 2020, 6:00 PM
NUMBER OF VICTIMS (AS OF July 14, 2020, 6:00 PM CEST):
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK /PMOI) announced this afternoon, July 14, 2020, that Coronavirus has taken the lives of more than 70,800 in 343 cities across Iran. The death toll in various provinces include:17630 in Tehran, 5310 in Khuzestan, 3350 in Isfahan, 2620 in Lorestan, 2190 in Sistan and Baluchestan, 1795 in Golestan, 925 in Kerman, 580 in Qazvin, 470 in ChaharMahal and Bakhtiari. This is in addition to reports obtained from other provinces.
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UPDATE: 6:00 PM CEST
MEK Resistance Units install large banner of Maryam Rajavi in front of a university
The Iranian Resistance Units, a network of activists of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) across Iran, have been organizing various activities that are louder calls for regime change. The Resistance Units bravely took to graffiti in public places with the slogans: “Down with the principle of the Supreme Leader’s rule,” “Down with Khamenei, hail to Rajavi,” “We can and we must free Iran,” “Maryam Rajavi is the hope for Iran,” and “Free Iran with Maryam Rajavi.”
The Resistance Units installed a four-meter-long banner of Maryam Rajavi in Shahin Shahr’s University of Payam Nour. They also announced their support for the annual gathering of the Iranian Resistance the “Free Iran Global Summit: Iran Rising Up for Freedom”
They wrote:
University of Shahin Shahr—Banner of Maryam Rajavi: “The blood of 1,500 martyrs of the Nov. uprising has increased people’s desire for freedom”
Isfahan— “My name is Shahriar from Isfahan. I support the “Free Iran Global Summit” to fight the tyrannical mullahs”
Kermanshah— “We can and we must free Iran” / “Down with Khamenei, hail to Rajavi”
Chalus— “Iran Maryam, Maryam Iran”
Isfahan— “Dear Maryam, only through you, can Iran be freed and rebuilt”
Tehran— “Free Iran with Maryam Rajavi” / “Maryam Rajavi is the hope for Iran” / “Iran’s future is with Maryam Rajavi”
Tehran— “Free Iran with Maryam Rajavi”
Tehran— “Free Iran with Maryam Rajavi” / “Dear Maryam, Iran is waiting for you”
Ardabil— “Democracy and freedom with Maryam Rajavi” / “Down with Khamenei, hail to Rajavi, long live freedom”
Tehran— “We can and we must free Iran” / “Hi, I’m from Tehran, our wish is a free Iran”
Karaj— “Down with the principle of the Supreme Leader’s rule” / “Hail to freedom, hail to Rajavi”
Shiraz— “Iran Maryam, Maryam Iran” / “Down with Khamenei, hail to Rajavi, long live freedom”
Tehran— “We will take back Iran” / “Down with Khamenei”
Karaj— “Dear Maryam, we will stand alongside you and will overthrow the regime” / “Iran, Maryam, freedom” / “I’m from Karaj, and I announce my solidarity with you, long live freedom and justice”
Arak— “The future of Iran is with Maryam Rajavi”
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UPDATE: 5:00 PM CEST
Iran: Bipartisan Group of Prominent U.S. Figures Support the NCRI and the MEK
On the eve of next Friday’s “Free Iran Global Summit”, a bipartisan group of prominent U.S. figures have declared their support for the Iranian Resistance – the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK/PMOI) and the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). “ There is a beacon of hope in this dark landscape. The one organization that has done more than any other entity, including governments, to free Iranian citizens from tyranny and the world from fundamentalist-inspired terrorism is the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). The NCRI strives relentlessly to ensure that hope for democracy and an end to injustice remains alive in,” they wrote in a statement.
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UPDATE: 4:45 PM CEST
MEK: COVID-19 Death Toll Pass 70,300, Iran Regime’s Inaction and Cover-Up
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/ MEK) announced that the Covid-19 fatalities had passed 70,300. This is indeed a humanitarian catastrophe and a direct result of Iranian regime’s inaction and cover-up.
While other governments described COVID-19 as a “threat,” the regime’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, called it a “test.” In fact, Khamenei and his regime saw the COVID-19 as an opportunity. Riddled with domestic, regional, and international crises, the regime seized the moment and with its criminal policy of cover-up, then herd immunity, it has been desperately trying to use this pandemic as a tool of oppression.
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UPDATE: 4:00 PM CEST
38 British Religious Leaders Including 5 Archbishops Support NCRI’s Free Iran Global Summit
On the eve of the Free Iran Global Summit on Friday, July 17, some 38 of the most prominent religious leaders of Britain have supported the Iranian Resistance and the ten-point plan of the President-elect of the National Council of the Resistance of Iran (NCRI), Maryam Rajavi, for a free and democratic future Iran. Among the forty signatories of this statement are five former or current Archbishops, including Dr. Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury and a distinguished member of the House of Lords, John Davis, Archbishop of Wales, Dr. Barry Morgan, former Archbishop of Wales, Mark Strange, Archbishop of the Bishopric of Scotland.
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UPDATE: 11:45 AM CEST
Struan Stevenson- Five Years Later, Nuclear Deal With Iran Is in Tatters
Mr. Struan Stevenson, the coordinator of the Campaign for Iran Change and former president of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Iraq (2009-14), wrote an article on the United Press International (UPI) website. In this article Mr. Stevenson described Iran 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), tattered. “It will be five years this week since the Iran nuclear deal was signed in Vienna. The one-sided deal contained many clauses and annexes that related mainly to the lifting of sanctions in Iran. In return, the West got very little,” read the article.
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UPDATE: 9:00 AM CEST
Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll in 343 Cities Exceeds 70,300
- In a letter to Khamenei, the regime’s Health Minister, Saeed Namaki, absolved himself of responsibility and wrote: “I had written to you, predicting the new wave of (Coronavirus) outbreak due to naive negligence.”
- Iraj Harirchi, Deputy Health Minister: More than 72% of new Coronavirus patients need to be hospitalized in 24-hours.
- Vali-e-Asr Hospital in Birjand: The number of patients admitted to the Coronavirus wards has doubled compared to March, and the number of patients hospitalized in Intensive Care Units has increased by four to five folds. More than 90 percent of the Province’s population live in high-risk areas.
- Jahan-e San’at newspaper: The lower classes of society have no choice but to show their protest in the streets. The middle class does not exist anymore; no sector of society has anything to eat … The situation in other cities is far worse than in Tehran, and if the officials do not think of a solution, there will be protests by people, which can no longer be stopped.
- The regime Prosecutor in Khalkhal: It is not far from expectations that the city will fall in a state of crisis. In such a situation, there is no choice but to intensify our approach.
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The mullahs’ desperate need for execution and suppression
Iranian regime officials confirmed that on July 8 a man in Mashhad was executed for drinking alcohol on multiple occasions. Apart from the cruelty of this act, it is a manifestation of the regime’s reaction to its many crises such as the coronavirus outbreak, economic deadlock, conflicts between various currents of the regime, and its fear of another nationwide uprising.
On one hand, the regime has increased its psychological warfare and propaganda against the Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) and is pressurizing the families of MEK members, while on the other hand, it has begun a new wave of executions of prisoners. In this regard, executing a man for drinking alcohol is unique and unprecedented, even for the brutal regime of the mullahs.
The victim was imprisoned a year ago and had no other charges but drinking alcohol. The remarks of the victim’s lawyer indicate that the regime was in a hurry to carry out this execution.
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Khamenei blueprinted the mullahs’ 25-year self-off of Iran to China
Gholamreza Mesbahi Moghadam, a member of the Iranian regime’s Expediency Council, shed light on the role of Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in the sell-off deal with China involving the transfer of Kish Island, along with military and intelligence cooperation between the regime and the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) with the Chinese government.
“The 25-year cooperation document with China went through after Khamenei sent a special message and a special messenger to China and met with the Chinese President. Prior to that, there was no determination from our government,” Moghadam explained in an interview with the state-run Asre-Iran website on Saturday.
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Iran: Defiant Youth Target Regime’s Repressive Units
The defiant youth in Tehran and other cities, including Qom, Isfahan, Andimeshk, Khorramabad, Gorgan, Karaj, Babolsar, etc., set fire to the entrances of the regime’s centers of repression and terrorism.
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Iran news in brief, July 14, 2020
Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll in 343 Cities Exceeds 70,300
Iran: Defiant Youth Target Regime’s Repressive Units
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WHAT ARE THE IRAN PROTESTS OF 2019?
Tuesday, July 14, 2020, marks the 241st 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- July 13, 2020