Iran news in brief, January 4, 2021

Iran news in brief, January 4, 2021 Iran: Three Prisoners Hanged in Zahedan On Sunday, the clerical regime hanged two political prisoners, Hassan Dehvari and Elias Ghalandar-Zehi, after being incarcerated for seven years in Zahedan prison. Simultaneously, another prisoner, named Omid Mahmoud-Zehi, imprisoned since 2015, was hanged in the same prison. Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran strongly condemned these executions. She described the successive executions of Baluch political prisoners, after enduring years of incarceration, as being tantamount to the massacre of political prisoners and a crime against humanity. Mrs. Rajavi again urged the United Nations Security Council to take action in this regard. Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll Surpasses 196,500 Over 196,500 people have died of the novel coronavirus in 478 cities checkered across all of Iran’s 31 provinces, according to reports tallied by the Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran as of Sunday afternoon local time. The official death toll declared by the regime stands at 55,540 around a third of the actual figure. “The illness did not decrease in the four provinces of Ardabil, Golestan, Gilan and Mazandaran,” according to Alireza Raisi, spokesperson of the National Covid-19 Task Force on Sunday. “In Mazandaran most of the villages are engaged with this virus. This province had not entered a third wave and now they are engaged,” he added, according to the state-controlled Asre Iran daily. Read More: https://www.ncr-iran.org   / iranncr     / iran_policy   Subscribe to NCRI weekly newsletter t.ly/MybJ