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Coronanvirus outbreak – A hospital in Iran<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, Mujahedin-e Khalq or MEK)<\/a> announced on Monday, that over 2,600 people have lost their lives in Iran because of the coronavirus outbreak<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet the\u00a0<\/span>Iranian\u00a0<\/span>regime<\/span>\u2019s officials\u00a0<\/span>instead of taking\u00a0<\/span>necessary actions in helping people, after days of downplaying the crisis,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>are now speaking of bioterrorism.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Heshmat<\/span>ollah<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Falahat-Pisheh<\/span>, a former member of the regime\u2019s parliament<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0in an interview with the\u00a0<\/span>state-run\u00a0<\/span>ISNA news agency<\/span>\u00a0said:<\/span>\u00a0\u201cThe coronavirus is not a common cause of\u00a0<\/span>inf<\/span>ection<\/span>. I<\/span>t is indeed\u00a0<\/span>the result of bioterrorism and\u00a0<\/span>is\u00a0<\/span>spread<\/span>ing<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>in Iran and China.\u201d\u00a0 Instead of referring to the regime\u2019s inaction and stockpiling\u00a0<\/span>masks and necessary preventive\u00a0<\/span>kits rather than distributing them among people,\u00a0<\/span>Felahat-Pisheh<\/span>\u00a0accused\u00a0<\/span>United States officials of lying\u00a0<\/span>of<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>being ready\u00a0<\/span>to send aid to Iran.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Iran: Coronavirus Fatalities Exceed 2,600
The People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) announced that the #Coronavirus<\/a> death toll in 127 cities of 30 provinces has exceeded 2,600.#COVID19<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/K9q0TQlizo<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/lqOhVkFZYQ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) March 9, 2020<\/a>\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a similar development, Hossain Salami, head of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC)<\/span>, told ISNA<\/span>\u00a0that the coronavirus outbreak in Iran \u201cmight be\u00a0<\/span>the result of the US biologic attack.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is while report<\/span>s<\/span>\u00a0from inside Iran indicate that the IRGC is stockpiling masks and disinfectants<\/span>\u00a0and later selling them on the black market with much higher price. In this regard<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Ali\u00a0<\/span>Nowbakht<\/span>, chairman of the Parliament\u2019s Health Commission, implicitly referred to the IRGC\u2019s destructive role: \u201cNon-medical matters are undermining the Ministry of Health’s plans to prevent and control the Coronavirus. I consider the virus more than just a medical issue. As an economic, political, social, cultural, security and judicial issue …it has not been taken seriously.”<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mahmud Ahmadinejad,\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>regime\u2019s former president<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>sent a letter to Mr. An<\/span>tonio\u00a0<\/span>Guterres<\/span>, the United Nations Secretary General<\/span>, foolishly claiming that the coronavirus\u00a0<\/span>had been produced in\u00a0<\/span>a\u00a0<\/span>lab<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>\u201c<\/span>It is clear to the world that the mutated coronavirus was produced in lab, manufactured by the warfare stock houses of biological war belonging to world powers,<\/span>\u00a0and<\/span>\u00a0that it constitutes a threat on humanity more destructive than the other weapons that target humanity<\/span>,\u201d he wrote on twitter.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

These bogus claims once again confirm that the Iranian regime is not willing to\u00a0<\/span>help the Iranian people and combat th<\/span>e coronavirus.\u00a0<\/span>The r<\/span>egime\u2019s first reaction to the coronavirus outbreak in Iran was\u00a0<\/span>downplaying the dimensions of the crisis and\u00a0<\/span>cover<\/span>ing it\u00a0<\/span>up. This was\u00a0<\/span>after<\/span>\u00a0days of\u00a0<\/span>denying the existence of this\u00a0<\/span>virus in Iran,<\/span>\u00a0particularly in the city of\u00a0<\/span>Qom, in<\/span>\u00a0order to\u00a0<\/span>have a larger turnout\u00a0<\/span>in<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>its sham parliamentary election, which\u00a0<\/span>was met with a general boycott<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now the regime\u2019s officials\u00a0<\/span>are admitting to some parts of t<\/span>he coronavirus outbreak in Iran.\u00a0<\/span>Homayoun\u00a0<\/span>Yousefi<\/span>, a\u00a0<\/span>lawmaker<\/span>\u00a0and member of the \u201cNational Committee for Coronavirus<\/span>,<\/span>\u201d said today that “the disease will reach its peak in the next two weeks” and\u00a0<\/span>\u201c<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>number of those hospitalized will increase by 10-15% daily<\/span>.<\/span>\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dozens of dedicated physicians and nurses have contracted the virus while treating patients and lost their lives<\/span>. This is while\u00a0<\/span>the state in the country’s hospitals is continuously deteriorating due to a lack of facilities.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi<\/a>, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)<\/a>, hailed those honorable and committed physicians and nurses and extended her condolences to their families and the Iranian medical community. Mrs. Rajavi said that these dedicated men and women are the source of honor and pride for a nation that has refused to surrender to the mullahs’ inhuman regime in the past 40 years and has insisted on its national pride and human values while challenging the religious dictatorship ruling Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n

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These selfless men and women are the source of pride and honor for a nation which has not surrendered to the mullahs\u2019 inhuman regime for 40 years, and have been insisting on their nationalist and humanitarian values, and resisting against the religious tyranny #Iran<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) March 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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