Latest News in Brief – March 4, 2020
A Heartbreaking picture of people in Iran, passing out due to coronavirus.
Written by Hamideh Taati
THE CONTENT OF THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS
UPDATE: 4:00 PM CET
IRAN: CORONAVIRUS EXPANDS AS REGIME FEARS PMOI/MEK REPORTING
With the coronavirus spreading across Iran and having taken the lives of at least 1,200 people, more regime officials are being infected and dying from illness known as COVID-19.
The coronavirus spreading across Iran and millions are vulnerable
Ramezan Pourghassem, head of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Ground Forces counter-intelligence branch, died of the coronavirus in Khomeini Hospital of Sari, north of Tehran. Pourghassem formerly served as the regime deputy communications minister during Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s tenure as the mullahs’ president.
Reza Rahmani, Ministry of Industry, Mining and Trade in Iran, has also been hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19. State media outlets are also reporting that Hossein Sheikholeslam, advisor to the mullahs’ Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, has also been diagnosed with the coronavirus.
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IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS MONITOR MONTHLY REPORT – FEBRUARY 2020
February was marked by the outbreak of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) in Iran, progressively spreading throughout the country, and the regime’s deliberate inaction, says a leading Iranian human rights group.
Iran Human Rights Monitor Monthly Report – February 2020
In its monthly report of February, Iran Human Rights Monitor (Iran HRM) mainly focused on the Coronavirus outbreak in Iran, the regime’s cover-up and inaction in this regard and the extent of the crisis.
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UPDATE: 3:20 PM CET
IRAN CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK: SHOCKING FOOTAGE OF PEOPLE FALLING UNCONSCIOUS DUE TO COVID-19 INFECTION
New footage obtained from inside Iran shows that the scale of the coronavirus outbreak in Iran is much worse than reported by regime officials.
Zahedan, southeast Iran:
Man with coronavirus symptoms collapses and is seen coughing.
Over 1,200 people have died to COVID-19 across the country, according to MEK sources.
People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK)
@Mojahedineng
Zahedan, southeast #Iran
Man with coronavirus symptoms collapses and is seen coughing.
Over 1,200 people have died to COVID-19 across the country, according to MEK sources.https://bit.ly/39qZeEE #Covid_19
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UPDATE: 2:00 PM CET
VIDEO: IRAN CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK: LACK OF AIR SANITIZING EQUIPMENT IN BABOL HOSPITAL
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UPDATE: 12:30 PM CET
MORE WOMEN AMONG VICTIMS OF CORONAVIRUS AS DEATH TOLL EXCEEDS 1,200
The latest news from Iran indicate progressive rise in the number of victims of Coronavirus (Covid-19) and those who have contracted the virus. Some reports indicate deaths of women and girls among the victims.
Victims of Coronavirus in Iran – Women
Victims of Coronavirus in Iran-Women
In Rasht, capital of Gilan Province in the north, a woman died on Tuesday, March 3, 2020, after two weeks of struggle with the Coronavirus. She was not tested to the last day of her life and the test kits have not reached Gilan Province to this date.
In another news from Shiraz, capital of Fars Province in the south, a 14-year-old girl died in Chamran Hospital in this city. She had contracted the virus last week. Although, physicians have informed her family that she died of Corona, but regime officials have told them to declare her death as a result of heart stroke.
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UPDATE: 9:10 AM CET
THE REGIME IS GUILTY FOR SPREADING CORONAVIRUS IN IRAN: MEK RESISTANCE UNITS
MEK network inside Iran took to graffiti in Iran’s cities writing slogans against the Iranian regime’s mismanagement which has led to the spread of coronavirus in Iran and Iran coronavirus outbreak.
They wrote: “The regime’s guilt in spreading coronavirus is the cause of the Iranian people’s death.” “Khamenei the sinister mullah, you are the coronavirus” “Down with Khamenei, Viva Rajavi”
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UPDATE: 7:50 AM CET
VIDEO: IRANIAN AUTHORITIES ORDER DOCTORS TO REPORT CORONAVIRUS COVID 19 DEATHS AS HEART ATTACKS
VIDEO: DEATH TOLL OF IRAN’S CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK IS MUCH WORSE THAN AUTHORITIES ADMIT: HOSPITAL STAFF
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WHAT ARE THE IRAN PROTESTS OF 2019?
Wednesday, March 4, 2020, marks the 111th 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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