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UPDATE: 4:45 PM CEST
Iran: Coronavirus Update, Over 42,800 Deaths, May 19, 2020, 6:00 PM
NUMBER OF VICTIMS (AS OF MAY 19, 2020, 6:00 PM CEST):
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) announced this afternoon, May 19, 2020, that Coronavirus has taken the lives of more than 42,800 in 319 cities across Iran.
The death toll in various provinces include: 2980 in Khuzestan, 2640 in Mazandaran, 1645 in Alborz, 1210 in Lorestan, 1035 in Fars, 790 in Kurdestan, 505 in North Khorasan, 503 in Zanjan, 260 in Kohgiluyehn and Boyer Ahmad. This is in addition to reports obtained from other provinces.
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UPDATE: 4:45 PM CEST
Iran’s Regime Acknowledges to MEK’s Role in Iran Protests
In recent weeks and months, the state-run radio and TV, media outlets, and websites of the Iranian regime have repeatedly and on numerous occasions confessed to the role of the MEK in leading, organizing, and guiding protests and uprisings in Iran.
On Sunday, May 17, the state-run website Erja News urged the clerical regime’s officials to be vigilant about the growing public embrace of the MEK’s ideals and slogans, especially among university students and the country’s intellectuals. It underscored the “sinister awakening of sleeping cells” of the MEK, in their “thousands,” inside the country and expressed fear over the expansion of the activities of the MEK and its Resistance Units.
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UPDATE: 4:45 PM CEST
Khamenei’s Remarks Once Again Show Iran Regime’s Fear of MEK
The Iranian regime’s supreme leader, in a video conference on Monday, with his Basiji paramilitary forces posing as students, once again expressed his utter fear of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) and its role in leading the restive Iranian society toward toppling the regime.
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UPDATE: 4:00 PM CEST
PMOI MEK Resistance Units took to graffiti against the Iranian regime
While over 42,200 people have died of the novel coronavirus in 319 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:
Isfahan—Posters of Massoud Rajavi and Maryam Rajavi: “It is time to rise up, to rebel and rise up and break the prison chains”
Tehran— “The generation of Iran will not give up to the coronavirus caused by the supreme leader and will not accept silence.”
Rasht— “The army of the poor must rebel and rise up.”
Hamedan— “Down with Khamenei, Hail to Rajavi”
Ahwaz— “Coronavirus outbreak is the guilt of the Iranian regime & mullahs.”
Gilan— “Khamenei’s rule will be overthrown.”
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UPDATE: 11:30 AM CEST
Khamenei Expresses Fear of an Uprising and MEK in Meeting With Basiji Students
In a video conference with a group of handpicked Basij mercenaries posing as students, the regime’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, expressed his fear over the surge in popular uprisings and protests and the increasing support for the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) and the Resistance Units.
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UPDATE: 11:00 AM CEST
Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll in 319 Cities Exceeds 42,600
Regime’s Health Ministry: The number of infected in the past 24 hours is 2,294, the highest in the past month and a half
Death toll only in Mofatteh Hospital in Varamin is 180
The people’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK) announced on Monday, May 18, 2020, that the Coronavirus fatalities in 319 cities across Iran had exceeded 42,600. The number of victims in Tehran is 6,790, Khuzestan 2,915, Alborz 1,630, Hamedan 1,195, Lorestan 1,190, Kurdistan 760, and Kerman 473. The death toll in Mofatteh Hospital in the city of Varamin (central Iran) only is 180.
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UPDATE: 10:30 AM CEST
Inside Rouhani’s corrupt economic policies
During Saturday’s Coronavirus Task Force meeting, Iranian regime President Hassan Rouhani confirmed a Reuters report stating Iran’s oil exports have dropped to 70,000 barrels per day in April.
Rouhani said: “If we rely solely on the oil barrel, we will have problems.” This means that the regime has given up on oil revenues. The regime had predicated the 2020 budget on exporting one million barrels of oil per day at $50 a piece. The regime had hoped for a total of $18 billion of revenue from oil exports. But given the sudden drop in oil prices during the coronavirus pandemic, there’s no chance that the regime can amass that revenue, even if it reaches its desired volume of exports. In the best-case scenario, the regime will only get $250 million in a year, one-seventieth of what it had anticipate.
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UPDATE: 10:00 AM CEST
Maryam Rajavi: The astounding rise in the Coronavirus death toll and the upward trend of the crisis in many provinces in Iran are due to the clerical regime’s inhuman policies
The only thing the mullahs are concerned about is to preserve their disgraceful rule.
The astounding rise in the #Coronavirus death toll and the upward trend of the crisis in many provinces in #Iran are due to the clerical regime’s inhuman policies. The only thing the mullahs are concerned about is to preserve their disgraceful rule #COVID__19 pic.twitter.com/VjZjfwLp2H
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) May 18, 2020
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Iran news in brief, May 19, 2020
Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll in 319 Cities Exceeds 42,600
Nobel Laureates Call for Release of Elite Iranian Students
Iran Regime’s Supreme Leader Express Fear of Iran Protests
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WHAT ARE THE IRAN PROTESTS OF 2019?
Tuesday, May 19, 2020, marks the 187th 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 18, 2020