Latest News in Brief – May 9, 2020
Written by
Hamideh Taati
May 9, 2020: Latest News
THE CONTENT OF THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS
UPDATE: 7:00 PM CEST
Iran: Coronavirus Update, Over 40,200 Deaths, May 9, 2020, 6:00 PM CEST
Tehran, Friday night, May 8, 2020
NUMBER OF VICTIMS (AS OF MAY 9, 2020, 6:00 PM CEST):
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) announced this afternoon, May 9, 2020, that Coronavirus has taken the lives of more than 40,200 in 315 cities across Iran.
The death toll in various provinces include: 6750 in Tehran, 3330 in Qom, 2070 in Khuzestan, 1250 in Golestan, 1050 in Hamedan, 1045 in Lorestan, 650 in Kurdestan, 341 in Chaharmahal & Bakhtiari, 170 in Hormozgan.This is in addition to cases registered in other provinces.
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UPDATE: 4:00 PM CEST
Iran: 3600 People Arrested for Posting the Real Figures of Fatalities of COVID-19
The coronavirus outbreak in Iran has claimed the lives of nearly 40,000 people due to the regime’s cover-up and inaction. Instead of helping people, the Iranian regime arrests those exposing the reality of the COVID-19 for what it calls “rumor–mongering.”
In other countries, in addition to government transparency, individuals who alert others about a crisis such as the coronavirus outbreak are honored as heroes. In Iran, this is not the case.
Brig. Gen. Abolfazl Shekarchi, the spokesman for the regime’s armed forces, told state-run TV on April 29: “Some 3,600 people who had posted rumors in virtual space were arrested by the State Security Forces (SSF) and the Bassij. Our enemies continue their hostility, and they have agents inside the country who pursue their policy in the country.”
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UPDATE: 11:30 AM CEST
NCRI-US, May 8, 2020, Online Policy Briefing: The Imperative of Extending the UN’s Iran Arms Embargo
WASHINGTON, DC – May 8, 2020 — In an online video policy briefing today, entitled “The Imperative of Extending the UN’s Iran Arms Embargo,” Alireza Jafarzadeh, the deputy director of the U.S. Representative Office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI-US), welcomed the bi-partisan letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo by an overwhelming majority of the U.S. House of Representatives. He said the letter serves as a clear indication that the threat of the Iranian regime is real, ongoing, and not a partisan issue, and that it exposes one of the major flaws in the JCPOA, allowing the expiration in October of the UN-sanctioned international arms embargo imposed on Tehran.
Alireza Jafarzadeh: The threat posed by the Iranian regime to Iran’s people and the outside world will persist until there is a fundamental change in Iran. The COVID-19 crisis is just another proof that the religious dictatorship places its own survival above the best interests of Iranians and the region’s stability. Its behavior is not going to change. There is only one solution and that is the change of the terrorist kleptocratic regime by the people of Iran. Now is the time for the international community to stand on the side of people and recognize their right to change the repressive regime and establish freedom and democracy in Iran.
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UPDATE: 11:00 AM CEST
Iran: Coronavirus Fatalities Exceed 40,000 in 314 Cities
Iran: Coronavirus fatalities exceed 40,000 in 314 cities
Over 40,000 dead of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Iran-Iran Coronavirus Death Toll per PMOI MEK sources
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK) announced on Friday, May 8, 2020, that the Coronavirus death toll in 314 cities in Iran had exceeded 40,000. The number of victims in Tehran is 6,690, Khorasan Razavi 2,935, Mazandaran 2,480, Isfahan 2,470, Khuzestan 2,055, Alborz 1,599, Lorestan 1,030, Central Province 535, and North Khorasan 442.
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UPDATE: 10:30 AM CEST
Corruption in the Mullahs’ Regime Ruling Iran-Part 3
The Corrupt Mullahs’ Mafia in Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB
IRGC’s greedy generals
The dossier of IRIB
Corruption in the Mullahs’ Regime Ruling Iran-Part 3
Corruption in the Mullahs’ Regime Ruling Iran-Part 3
Mohammad Sarafraz, who had been among the senior managers of IRIB for two decades, was appointed as the head of the organization by the regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in 2014.
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UPDATE: 10:00 AM CEST
On May 2, 2020, Iran regime’s border forces killed 50 Afghan workers by throwing them into the water
On May 2, the Iranain regime’s border forces
in Saleh-Abad region, southwerstern Iran,
captured a group of Afghan workers who entered Iran seeking work, and killed 50 of them after beating them with shovels and pliers.
“Afghan workers were arrested by border forces of Saleh-Abad
region when they entered Iran’s soil. First, border forces broke their hands and legs, then they
threw 50 people into the water,” said Abdul-Ghani Nouri, Governor of Golan in Harat, Afghanistan.
However, on the same day,
the regime’s president Hassan Rouhani spoke of the kindness
and free medical treatment of immigrants.
“Regarding the treatment of patients, we don’t consider whether they are Iranians or non-Iranians. We don’t consider their religion. We see all patients as equal and we even treat foreign citizens for free,” Rouhani claimed.
Also, a survivor explained the Iranian regime’s forces cruel behavior, saying, “First, they beat, tortured, and harassed us. Then they got us on a vehicle and took us to the sea.There was a home. The owner didn’t allow them to throw us in
the water. They took us to an other place and threw us to the sea.”
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Iran news in brief, May 9, 2020
Iran: Coronavirus Fatalities Exceed 40,000 in 314 Cities
Iran: Political Prisoner Denied Treatment for Heart Condition
Iran: Prison Inmate Remains in Solitary Confinement After Unrest
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WHAT ARE THE IRAN PROTESTS OF 2019?
Saturday, May 9, 2020, marks the 177th 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
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