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Iran: Several Members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization (PMOI/MEK) Arrested During Attack on Judiciary Headquarters in Tehran

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  The leadership of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) inside the country announced that several members of the organization were arrested on the evening of Friday, October 16, 2026, during clashes with security personnel from the judiciary and police patrols, while an attack was underway targeting the central headquarters of the Iranian regime’s judiciary in Tehran. According to the statement, the clashes took place at around 9 p.m. local time on Abdollahzadeh Street, off Keshavarz Boulevard, near the judiciary’s central headquarters. Resistance Units Mobilized Following Reports That Mohseni Ejei Was Heading to the Headquarters The PMOI leadership inside Iran explained that, several hours before the operation, information had been received indicating that Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei, head of the Iranian regime’s judiciary, was on his way to Keshavarz Boulevard to proceed to the central headquarters. The statement added that, immediately upon receiving this info...
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In a region dominated by the state, public-private partnership has driven the Middle East’s Covid response

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By Dr Majid Rafizadeh Last month, President Biden  pledged  $4bn to the global COVAX scheme, whilst ironically issuing a Trumpian declaration of ‘America First’ when it comes to jabs. That stance was by no means unique to the United States, though it once again highlights where the major vaccine inequalities lie. In the world’s poorer nations, but also in those with little to no medical research and production infrastructure. Over the past year, recognising that they fell into the second category, Middle Eastern nations have undertaken intensive efforts to address this glaring gap in their Covid toolkit. In economies dominated by state-generated oil revenues, there has been a relatively recent drive to increase the role of the private sector. Liberalisation of foreign ownership regulations, more generous permanent residency rules, tax breaks and state subsidies have all been deployed by Middle Eastern governments to attract foreign companies. To some extent this has been succe...
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Iran Regime’s Vaccination Scam

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 Contradictory remarks by Iran regime’s officials underline their intention of using the  Covid-19  vaccine issue as a leverage to lift sanctions, further plunder Iranians, and intentionally increase casualties. Iran’s President  Hassan Rouhani : “We considered procuring vaccines from the first months of this year” Mohammad Reza Naghdi, a top  IRGC  commander: “We would not use foreign  vaccines  to vaccinate people” Homayoun Samehi, Member of the Parliamentary Health Commission, speaking to the state-run Donya-e Eghtesad daily: “It will take at least two years for the vaccine to enter Iran” Dr. Massoud Mardani – Member of the National Coronavirus Combat Taskforce (NCCT): “We do not have the money to procure vaccines.” Ali Rabie, Government spokesperson, December 22, 2020: “We have money, but we have trouble transferring the money.” Nasser Riahi, President of the Medicine Importers Union: “We have no problem transferri...
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Iran’s regime has abandoned nurses in the heat of the Covid-19 outbreak

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By Farid Mahoutchi Iran, December 21, 2020— Iranian regime supreme leader  Ali Khamenei  shed crocodile tears for the hardworking doctors, nurses, and health care workers in a televised address on Sunday, trying to erase a year of destructive policies and mismanagement with shallow words of praise. But Khamenei’s ridiculous show of affection does not change the critical and tragic situation the country’s health care system has been facing since the beginning of the  coronavirus outbreak . A look at remarks made by officials and state-run media sheds light on the truth. The conditions of Iran’s nurses On December 20, the state-run Hamdeli described the situation as such: “Very few nurses in hospitals are faced with an increasing number of Covid-19 patients and they are in a war of attrition… Until now, more 60,000 nurses have contracted Covid-19 and more than 100 have lost their lives. Hamdeli further quotes, Mohammad Sharifi Moghadam, the secretary of Home of Nurses, as s...
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Iran State-Run Media Acknowledge Society’s Restiveness Amid Various Crises

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By Shahriar kia Iran’s state-run media continue to acknowledge the social and economic crises in Iran, underline the regime’s inaction, and warn the authorities of possible outcomes. The Iranian people have to face rampant poverty and inflation, in addition to the Covid-19 crisis. “Last month, the Central Bank, as the official reference for the country’s statistics, announced a poverty line of 10 million tomans. Between 70 and 80 items of workers’ medicines, such as pills and syrups, were removed from social security booklets. When we face such issues, we see that workers’ salary of 2.8 million tomans does not cover the worker’s living expenses,”  wrote  the state-run Hamdeli daily on Saturday. All the while, “More than 70% of workers are underemployed and can no longer afford to buy red meat or even white meat and have been forced to remove these items from their monthly shopping cart,” according to the semi-official ILNA news agency on November 16. The reason for these skyro...
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With Incessant Inaction and Propaganda, Iran’s Regime Makes Coronavirus Worse

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  By Shamsi Saadati The  People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK)  announced on Friday that the coronavirus death toll has  surpassed 145,400 . The official death toll by the regime’s Ministry of Health stands at 37,409, around one-fourth of the actual figure.   The Iranian regime initiated a cover-up since the very first days of the outbreak. Now, even the regime’s latest, record-breaking statistics come nowhere close to revealing the true extent of the crisis. The daily death tolls are actually higher than acknowledged because the rates of infection are higher than acknowledged. And that is the case because the pandemic took hold of Iranian society much earlier and much more aggressively than most people realize.  Tehran officially acknowledged the first domestic cases of Covid-19 in mid-February, right around the time of parliamentary elections. But sometime later, the MEK obtained doc...
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