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UPDATE: 6:45 PM CEST
Iran: Coronavirus Update, Over 41,200 Deaths, May 13, 2020, 6:00 PM
NUMBER OF VICTIMS (AS OF MAY 13, 2020, 6:00 PM CEST):
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) announced this afternoon, May 13, 2020, that Coronavirus has taken the lives of more than 41,200 in 317 cities across Iran.
The death toll in various provinces include: 6885 in Tehran, 2535 in Mazandaran, 2490 in Isfahan, 2360 in Khuzestan, 1465 in Eeast Azerbaijan, 1165 in Hamedan, 1110 in Sistan and Baluchestan, 1105 in Lorestan, 350 in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari. This is in addition to cases registered in other provinces.
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UPDATE: 6:00 PM CEST
MEK Resistance Units continue their efforts during the coronavirus outbreak in Iran
While over 41,000 people have died of the novel coronavirus in 316 cities, the Iranian people and the PMOI/MEK network inside Iran highlight the solution for Iran which is the overthrow of the mullahs’ rule. They took to graffiti in public places writing messages of Iranian Resistance leader Massoud Rajavi and NCRI President Maryam Rajavi.
They wrote:
Behbahan—Poster of Maryam Rajavi: “The people of Iran will overcome both the coronavirus and the virus of the Supreme Leader”
Tehran—Image of the Iranian Resistance leader Massoud Rajavi
Tehran— “The army of the poor must rebel and rise up.”
Tehran— “It is time to rise up, to rebel and rise up and break the prison chains.”
Tehran— “It is time to rise up, to rebel and rise up and break the prison chains.”
Tehran— “It is time to rise up”
Tehran— “Hail to the rebels of freedom”
Shiraz— “The people of Iran will overcome both the coronavirus and the virus of the Supreme Leader.”
Gorgan— “Coronavirus outbreak is the guilt of the Iranian regime and mullahs.”
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UPDATE: 5:30 PM CEST
Khamenei makes humiliating retreat on previous coronavirus remarks
For the first time since the coronavirus outbreak began, Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei joined the Coronavirus Task Force committee meeting on May 10 through video conference, hinting that perhaps he is beginning to seriously think about the crisis that has engulfed the country for three months.
Although, similar to regime president Hassan Rouhani, Khamenei tried to portray a dominant image of his regime, but his video appearance in the meeting and his remarks are a retreat from his previously claim that the coronavirus “is not a big problem.” This time he mentioned that it is a serious issue and wished that the “young scientists of the homeland” hopefully could discover the vaccine for this “fraudulent virus.” (In reality, however, the regime’s only effort to discover the vaccine has been a failed series of hacking attempts against scientific institutions and research labs in other countries.)
Khamenei tried to cover up the regime’s criminal policy of sending people back to work during the pandemic and said, “The west has failed to manage the coronavirus crisis. People in these countries were attacking the shops.” He also emphasized that “the defeat of the West must be explained to the public.”
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UPDATE: 4:30 PM CEST
A Month After Reopening the Economy, Coronavirus Spreads More and Claims More Lives Across Iran
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) announced on Tuesday that the coronavirus death toll in Iran has surpassed 41,000. The disease continues to rapidly across Iran and claim more lives due to the regime’s criminal decision to send people back to work.
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UPDATE: 3:30 PM CEST
Sanctions Relief Would Only Make Iran’s Coronavirus Outbreak Worse
By: Alejo Vidal-Quadras
The international community needs to do something to help the Iranian people make it through their country’s coronavirus epidemic. It is increasingly obvious that their own government will do nothing for them. But that fact underscores the potential error of following what is many Western policymakers’ first impulse for how to help, namely advocating sanctions relief or injecting cash into the Iranian economy.
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UPDATE: 11:30 AM CEST
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said:
Rouhani’s sudden dismissal of the Minister of Industry, Mines, and Trade reflects the aggravating factional feuding over the plunder and theft of the Iranian people’s wealth and speaks to the deep crisis gripping the regime amid the Coronavirus pandemic. Plunder and theft, much like suppression and export of terrorism, are endemic to this regime.
Rouhani’s sudden sacking of the Minister of Industries, Mines & Commerce bespeaks of growing tensions within the regime amid the #coronavirus crisis. Just like terrorism and domestic suppression, plunder & pillage are inherent to the clerical regime #Iranhttps://t.co/Sq4fvML49w
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) May 12, 2020
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UPDATE: 11:00 AM CEST
Iran: Coronavirus death toll exceeds 41,000
Upward trend in Lorestan, Mazandaran, Khuzestan, Kerman, Central, Kohgiluyeh- Boyer-Ahmad, Ilam, and Hamedan
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK) announced this afternoon, Tuesday, May 12, 2020, the Coronavirus death toll in 317 cities in Iran has exceeded 41,000. The number of victims in Qom is 3,370, Mazandaran 2,510, Khuzestan 2,320, Golestan 1,280, Hamedan 1,140, Lorestan 1,085, Kurdistan 660, Central Province 582, and Kerman 460.
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UPDATE: 10:30 AM CEST
Implications of reopening Iran’s religious sites during the coronavirus outbreak
Iranian regime president Hassan Rouhani instructed Health Minister Saeed Namaki to provide guidelines for reopening religious centers and holy shrines.
Rouhani’s argument to reopen businesses: “If the people stay home, they will die from hunger.”
What argument does he have to justify the reopening of religious sites?
Mosques and religious centers have always served as a lucrative source of business and revenue for the mullahs.
Foundations such as Astan-e Quds are the largest source of income for the mullahs and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
The “Ramadan” and “Moharam” bazaars are important and the mullahs cannot forgo such massive sources of income.
Friday prayers are of political and social importance for the mullahs.
It is mainly through these events that the regime promotes its policies and provides guidelines to its forces.
Khamenei and Rouhani have placed the economic/security interests of their regime above people’s lives.
Khamenei – April 9: Production must resume whatever the price which means he will use the crisis as a tool against the collapse of his regime
Khamenei downplayed the COVID-19 crisis: “In comparison to other issues, this is quite insignificant.”
Khamenei’s main issue is the security of his regime. Reopening mosques plays an important role in this regard.
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UPDATE: 10:00 AM CEST
“Khamenei’s rule must be overthrown” MEK Resistance Units
Ramsar—Posters of Massoud Rajavi & Maryam Rajavi: “The destruction of the Supreme Leader’s rule is near”
Zahedan—Posters of Massoud Rajavi & Maryam Rajavi: “We’ll resist against the coronavirus caused by the Supreme Leader”
Tehran— “The mullahs sow the seeds of hopelessness & passivity. We must rebel against it.”
Qom— “The choice of the brave generation of Iran is the overthrow of Khamenei’s rule”
Shahr-e Kord— “Khamenei’s rule must be overthrown”
Sari— “Down with Khamenei, the cause of the coronavirus in Iran”
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Iran news in brief, May 13, 2020
Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll Exceeds 41,000
7-Magnitude Quake in Tehran Will Leave 5 Million Dead: Experts
Iran: Two Political Prisoners Go on Hunger Strike
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WHAT ARE THE IRAN PROTESTS OF 2019?
Wednesday, May 13, 2020, marks the 181st 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 12, 2020