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IRAN: CORONAVIRUS FATALITIES IN 318 CITIES EXCEEDS 41,700

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IRAN: CORONAVIRUS FATALITIES IN 318 CITIES EXCEEDS 41,700 CATEGORIES //  Statements of Maryam Rajavi The clerical regime continues to arrest young people and supporters of the PMOI/MEK and hand down heavy prison sentences for political prisoners despite the coronavirus crisis.

New details on Iran’s terror attempt against MEK members in Albania

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Albanian police reveal details of Iranian regime's terror plot against MEK-October 23, 2019 New details on Iran’s terror attempt against MEK members in Albania Iran, October 24, 2019 — Albanian authorities have revealed new information about a Tehran-affiliated terrorist group that has been plotting against members of Iranian opposition  People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) . In March 2018, news broke that  Albanian authorities had foiled a terrorist plot by the Iranian regime against MEK  members in Tirana, who were gathering for the annual Nowruz celebrations.  In the past years, Albania has given refuge to thousands of MEK members previously in Iraq, where they were constantly targeted by the Iranian regime and its allies in the Iraqi government. Since the relocation of MEK members to Albania, Tehran has increased its presence in the country and is using its diplomatic premises to con...

IRAN: Protest by Residents of Chenar Mahmoudi Village in Lordegan

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IRAN: Protest by Residents of Chenar Mahmoudi Village in Lordegan Published on  21 October 2019 . Suppressive forces attack villagers’ homes and arrest young people On Sunday, October 20, 2019, the residents of Chenar Mahmoudi village in  Lordegan  again staged an anti-regime protest. Subsequently, Special Anti-riot units attacked the villagers’ homes and arrested the protesters, especially the youths dragging them on the ground to transfer them to their vehicles. Terrified of the coverage of this onslaught, the suppressive forces seized or broke the residents’ mobile phones. On Saturday, October 5, the city of  Lordegan  (south-central Iran) was the scene of an uprising by thousands of people in which the offices of the Governor and the representative of the regime’s Supreme Leader as well as several other regime centers were set on fire. One of the protesters, a young man by the name of Sa’adatollah Moussavi, was killed and several people w...

IRAN: Mullahs’ Anti-Labor Policies, Daily Deaths of Workers Deprived of Basic Safety Provisions

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IRAN: Mullahs’ Anti-Labor Policies, Daily Deaths of Workers Deprived of Basic Safety Provisions Published on  21 October 2019 . 20 workers  lost their lives  in one week due to unsafe working conditions Four workers lost their lives  due to lack of the most basic safety provisions and equipment, according to the state-run media on Thursday, October 17, 2019. The incidents happened in Rasht (northern Iran), Tubas (northeast), and Chadegan (central Iran). On Friday, October 11, eight workers lost their lives in work-related accidents in Torbat Heydarieh (northeast), Bukan (northwest), Qazvin (west), Lowshan (north), and Anbar-Abad (south). The same day, the state-run news agency, IRNA, reported that two workers were electrocuted in a water well in Anbar-Abad (260 km south of Kerman in southern Iran). The day before, a Chromite mine collapsed in the village of Goji in the town of Zaveh killing a miner. And a young farmer was killed in Doukchi village in ...

IRAN: Defiant Youths’ Activities Against Repression Continue and Spread in Different Cities

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IRAN: Defiant Youths’ Activities Against Repression Continue and Spread in Different Cities Published on  16 October 2019 . Protest actions and activities against the repression by  defiant youths  in different parts of the country have become more widespread in October. From October 10 to October 13, Tehran and other cities, including Karaj, Shiraz, Isfahan, Mashhad, Kermanshah, Arak, Orumiyeh, Alborz (Mehr Shahr), and Babolsar were the  scenes of activities by defiant youths . Posters of the regime’s former and current supreme leaders Ruhollah Khomeini and Ali Khamenei, symbols and branches of the Revolutionary Guards and the paramilitary Bassij were set ablaze in these cities. Large portraits of the Iranian Resistance’s leadership and anti-regime banners were posted in different areas, such as “the mullahs must go, sovereignty belongs to the people,” and “democracy, freedom with  Maryam Rajavi .” Secretariat of  the National Cou...