Latest News in Brief – March 21, 2020

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UPDATE: 5:45 PM CET

Coronavirus outbreak in Iran: Quarantine or Martial law
Mar 21, 2020—While other countries use their armed forces to help people, the Iranian regime has imposed martial law amid the coronavirus outbreak in Iran.

The regime intends to prepare itself to suppress protests and people’s outrage against its inaction and cover-up in spreading the coronavirus and to spread terror in the society. The Iranian regime’s failure and refusal to control the virus and quarantine cities expedited the spread of the coronavirus. Yet, the regime’s president, Hassan Rouhani, blatantly said: “We have no such thing as quarantine. There won’t be any quarantine neither today nor during Nowruz (Persian new year); neither before, nor after.”
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UPDATE: 5:15 PM CET

Some Videos Released by the PMOI/MEK About the Coronavirus Outbreak in Iran
Youth in Yasuj, Iran, block entrance to city amid coronavirus outbreak
Iranian girl donates her birthday money to help people during coronavirus outbreak
Youth quarantine Babol city amid Iran coronavirus outbreak
People in Zahedan face harsh conditions during Iran’s coronavirus crisis
Iran coronavirus outbreak news: Volunteers distribute masks as regime inaction continues
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UPDATE: 10:15 AM CET

Video:Maryam Rajavi’s New Year Message: Happy Nowruz- Tribute to martyrs of November 2019 uprising
On the New Persian Year 1399, in a video message to the people of Iran, Maryam Rajavi congratulated the people of Iran, saying, “On behalf of the Iranian Resistance, its members and all Mojahedin at Ashraf-3, I extend our sincere condolences and sympathies to families who have lost their loved ones on the eve of the New Year.” “Congratulations on the beginning of 1399, Nowruz, in tribute to the martyrs of the November 2019 uprising. And we congratulate the Resistance Units and selfless women and men who have risen up against this pandemic disease amid the Iranian nation’s fateful struggle against the ruling theocracy.”
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UPDATE: 9:00 AM CET

Maryam Rajavi: Congratulations on the Advent of Nowruz
Maryam Rajavi :Congratulations on the advent of Nowruz, in tribute to the martyrs of the November 2019 uprising who propelled the Iranian people’s fateful struggle to overthrow the mullahs’ regime
Maryam Rajavi: Congratulations on the advent of Nowruz, in tribute to the martyrs of the November 2019 uprising who propelled the Iranian people’s fateful struggle to overthrow the mullahs’ regime
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Maryam Rajavi

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There is a single solution for #Coronavirus, for poverty, for oppression and tyranny. That solution is overthrowing the mullahs’ religious dictatorship in its entirety. #FreeIran2020 #Nowruz https://www.maryam-rajavi.com/en/item/maryam-rajavi-uprising-overthrow-mullahs-regime-new-year-nowruz …

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In their quest for the spring of freedom, the people of #Iran sent their vanguards to the battle field in November. #Nowruz https://www.maryam-rajavi.com/en/item/maryam-rajavi-uprising-overthrow-mullahs-regime-new-year-nowruz …

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UPDATE: 8:30 AM CET

Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll Reaches 8,200 in 200 Cities
Shops closed in Bazar dueto coronavirus

The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK) announced this afternoon, March 20, 2020, that the number of Coronavirus fatalities has exceeded, 8,200 in 200 cities across Iran. The number of victims in Tehran is at least 1,300, in Khorasan Razavi 800, in Isfahan 660, in West Azerbaijan 350, Kermanshah 240, and in Fars 200.

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UPDATE: 8:00 AM CET

Iran is Using Coronavirus as a Weapon Against Political Prisoners

It was recently reported that a number of political prisoners in Iran had gone on hunger strike in order to protest their continued, arbitrary detention during a coronavirus epidemic that has potentially infected a million Iranians since the start of the year. The hunger strikes represent the continuation of activist pressure that began last month with letters from the families of various political prisoners, urging the judiciary to grant them furlough in order to limit the spread of COVID-19.

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Rouhani kick-starts the “imaginary” 2020 budget
The Iranian regime’s president Hassan Rouhani announced the new 2020 budget to all regime organs on Thursday, a day before the Persian new year. This is while many experts, regime officials, and state-run media have criticized the budget for being full of ambiguities, which was the cause of a new crisis in the regime during the previous months.

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“… many experts, regime officials, and state-run media have criticized the budget for being full of ambiguities, which was the cause of a new crisis in the regime during the previous months.”#Iranhttps://english.mojahedin.org/i/iran-2020-budget-20200320 …

Rouhani kick-starts the “imaginary” 2020 budget | People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK)
Reporting by PMOI/MEK Iran, March 20, 2020—The Iranian regime’s president Hassan Rouhani announced the new 2020 budget to all regime organs on Thursday, a day before the Persian new year. This is…

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Iran news in brief, March 21, 2020
Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll Reaches 8,200 in 200 Cities
Maryam Rajavi: Congratulations on the Advent of Nowruz
Iran’s Regime Sentences Another November Protester to Death
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WHAT ARE THE IRAN PROTESTS OF 2019?

Saturday, March 21, 2020, marks the 128th 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- March 20, 2020

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