NCR IRAN's video: Iran news in brief January 12 2021

Iran news in brief, January 12, 2021 Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll Exceeded 200,000 Over 200,000 people have died of the coronavirus across Iran, according to reports by the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran as of January 11. The official death toll declared by the regime stands at 56,262 around a third of the actual figure. Maryam Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran described this catastrophe as a direct result of the regime’s criminal and plundering policies in the past ten months. This number of deaths was preventable and could have been far less, Madam Rajavi added. Regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, President Hassan Rouhani, and other official are directly responsible for the rising number of Covid-19 deaths. Instead of paying the wages of Iran’s hard-working people from the economic cartels controlled by Khamenei and the Revolutionary Guards, sent people to work at the mercy of Covid-19 and today, by preventing the coronavirus vaccine imports, they are behind an even more disastrous catastrophe. In Iran even the government’s own official numbers are far higher than neighboring and other Middle East countries. Most of these countries have far weaker infrastructures and economic and social foundations in comparison to Iran. The true stats, however, leaves Iran with the highest death toll per capita in the world. Iran: Protests Continue Across the Country On Sunday, pensioners and welfare receivers held a protest rally in front of the parliament in Tehran and other cities. At the same time, public school janitors and workers held a rally in front of the Majlis, protesting their unpaid wages. Meanwhile, a group of investors held a separate rally in Tehran, protesting the conditions of the crashing conditions stock market, which has been caused by the regime’s corrupt policies and has resulted in much loss to many people. Elsewhere, in Arak, the workers of Hepco, the once-flourishing construction equipment manufacturer, held protest rallies because their wages haven’t been paid for months. Municipality workers in Yazd and Tabriz, and truck drivers in Qasr-e Qand also held protest rallies. 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