NCR IRAN's video: Iran news in brief January 21 2021

Iran news in brief, January 21, 2021 Iran’s Regime Agent Arrested in US An Iranian regime agent, Kaveh Lotfolah Afrasiabi, posing as an independent political scientist was arrested on Monday at his home in Massachusetts USA on the charges of secretly lobbying for the Iranian regime for a decade. The U.S. Justice Department released a press release yesterday in this regard. “For over a decade, Kaveh Afrasiabi pitched himself to Congress, journalists, and the American public as a neutral and objective expert on Iran,” said John C. Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security. “However, all the while, Afrasiabi was actually a secret employee of the Government of Iran and the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations who was being paid to spread their propaganda. In doing so, he intentionally avoided registering with the Department of Justice as the Foreign Agents Registration Act required. He likewise evaded his obligation to disclose who was sponsoring his views. We now begin to hold him responsible for those deeds,” read the Justice Departments’ press release. Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll Exceeds 204,200 Over 204,200 people have died of the novel coronavirus in Iran, according to the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, on Wednesday. The official death toll declared by the regime stands at 57,057 around a third of the actual figure. “No vaccine has been imported yet. However, I believe we will be among the first countries to finalize our vaccination process,” the spokesperson for the regime’s Food and Drug Organization said ridiculously in this regard on Wednesday,” according to the Javan daily, an outlet linked to the regime’s Revolutionary Guards. Iran: Defiant Youth Target Six Centers of Repression Following the State Security Force’s crackdown on the protest by unemployed youth in Behbahan in front of Bid Boland-2 refinery, defiant youth in the cities of Tehran, Mashhad and Hamedan targeted six centers of suppression and set fire to their signs and entrances. These activities, which took place in the height of security conditions were widely welcomed by the public. On the same day, defiant youth in Hamedan also set fire to the large banner of Qassem Soleimani, the eliminated commander of the terrorist Quds force. Read More: https://www.ncr-iran.org https://www.facebook.com/IranNCR/ https://twitter.com/iran_policy Subscribe to NCRI weekly newsletter t.ly/MybJ