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The Iranian regime\u2019s officials, particularly its president, Hassan Rouhani, have been downplaying and covering up the coronavirus outbreak in Iran.<\/p>\n
In his recent remarks, Rouhani blatantly declared on Sunday: \u201cWe have white (virus-free) provinces in the south of the country where there are no problems for schools to open. Bushehr, Hormozgan, Sistan and Baluchestan Provinces \u2026 can start their activities.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is while, according to the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, Mujahedin-e Khalq or MEK)<\/a>, the coronavirus death toll has surpassed 20,400<\/a> across Iran.<\/p>\n Rouhani\u2019s recent remarks, the bogus claims by the regime\u2019s top officials of a possible bioterrorism attack and the regime\u2019s cover-up and inaction confirm that the regime has no intention to help the Iranian people.<\/p>\n As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread across the globe, we witness governments, one after another, taking preventive measures and mobilizing all their power to combat this virus. People in Europe, United States, Asia, and other countries are quarantined and receive their salaries and help from their governments.<\/p>\n In Iran however, along with a cover-up and downplaying of the crisis, Rouhani announced April 11 as the start date for low risk \u201cbusinesses,\u201d to recommence \u201ceconomic activities.\u201d He said: We are using a step-by-step process to reopen the services.\u201d \u201cStarting from next week, the offices will start working with 2\/3 of their employees, and a third will be allowed to stay at home.\u201d<\/p>\n In a similar development, the regime\u2019s Parliament blocked the submitting of an urgent motion for a month-long nationwide lockdown to prevent more deaths. This motion, which was signed by 80 deputies, opposed Rouhani\u2019s order to return people to work (by next week). It was blocked for \u201cviolating the constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n The Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Brigadier General Ali Shamkhani, the Supreme National Security Council Secretary, said: \u201cThe false argument of \u2018economy versus health\u2019 should not stop us. Physicians and workers are the two main pillars of the strategy to overcome the crisis.\u201d The blocking of the parliamentary motion and Shamkhani\u2019s remarks show that the decision to send people back to work has been made by the entirety of the regime, particularly the regime\u2019s supreme leader Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n These remarks and criminal actions are being made while On Monday, April 6, Hamid Souri<\/a>, a member of Iran\u2019s Coronavirus National task force, in an interview with the Iranian regime\u2019s official news agency, IRNA<\/a>, said that over half a million people in Iran have contracted Coronavirus.<\/p>\n \u201cThe initial estimate was that between 30 and 60 percent of the population would be infected with the disease\u2026 The current estimate is that about 500,000 people in the country have infected with the coronavirus,\u201d Souri said, adding: \u201cBut this is not an accurate figure because less-known and milder patients have not been identified yet.\u201d<\/p>\n Since the coronavirus outbreak in Iran, the regime along with its cover-up, has depicted the U.S. sanctions as the main reason for the exacerbating state of the coronavirus crisis in Iran. Meanwhile the mullahs have rejected the U.S. and other countries\u2019 aid, and the regime\u2019s top officials have said that we do not need any help. Hossain Salami, head of the IRGC, went as far as offering help to the U.S.<\/p>\n In this regard, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi<\/a>, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)<\/a>, said: \u201cThe regime is terrified of the truth. The criminal decision by (the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali) Khamenei and (his President Hassan) Rouhani to order the people back to work will result in countless victims. Rouhani\u2019s directive to resume \u2018business and economic activities\u2019 endangers the health of millions of Iranians.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cContrary to universally-recognized standards, instead of providing the minimum means of subsistence to the Iranian people by using the funds in economic entities controlled by Khamenei and IRGC, which have been stolen from the Iranian nation in the first place, the mullahs\u2019 regime is sending the Iranian people to the altar of Coronavirus. Incompetence, pilfering, and tremendous class differences under the ruling theocracy aggravate the scope of the catastrophe every day,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n Criminal decision by Khamenei and Rouhani to force ppl back to work will cause countless fatalities & endangers health of millions of Iranians #COVID19<\/a> #Iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n