{"id":217203,"date":"2020-04-25T10:54:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T09:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=217203"},"modified":"2023-01-23T17:08:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T16:08:01","slug":"iran-regime-sending-people-back-to-work-amid-coronavirus-will-result-in-humanitarian-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/iran-regime-sending-people-back-to-work-amid-coronavirus-will-result-in-humanitarian-catastrophe\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Regime Sending People Back to Work Amid Coronavirus Will Result in Humanitarian Catastrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_217205\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-217205\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Iran-corona-outbreak-2\" class=\"size-full wp-image-217205\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Iran-corona-outbreak-2.jpeg\" alt=\"Iran: Coronavirus outbreak \" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Iran-corona-outbreak-2.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Iran-corona-outbreak-2-300x189.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Iran-corona-outbreak-2-768x483.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Iran-corona-outbreak-2-696x438.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Iran-corona-outbreak-2-668x420.jpeg 668w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-217205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iran: Coronavirus outbreak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">As the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-human-rights\/iran-coronavirus-death-toll-exceeds-34700-in-297-cities\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">coronavirus death toll<\/a> continues to rise in Iran, the regime\u2019s officials\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">reluctantly acknowledge an inevitable new peak of the disease due to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">their<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">criminal decision to send people back to work.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Yet due to society\u2019s restiveness <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">this decision might result in an uprising.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, Mujahedin-e Khalq or MEK)<\/a> announced on Friday that the coronavirus death toll\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in Iran\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">is nearly <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-human-rights\/iran-coronavirus-death-toll-exceeds-34700-in-297-cities\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>35,000<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a>: Coronavirus Death Toll Exceeds 34,700 in 297 Cities <br \/>The People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI \/ MEK) announced on Friday, April 24, 2020, that the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Coronavirus<\/a> fatalities has surpassed 34,700 in 297 cities across the country. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Covid_19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Covid_19<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sA2MsLTyh0\">https:\/\/t.co\/sA2MsLTyh0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1253773525300756481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Following the meeting of Health Ministers of member states of the World Health Organization, Saeed\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Namaki<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, the regime\u2019s Health Minister, said<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">:<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0\u201cWe are still halfway through. We may still lose the game (the ball may elude our keeper) in the last minute, and we will be defeated and left humiliated in every corner of the globe.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ali Akbari,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0member of parliament from the city of Shiraz<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, in an interview on Friday with the state-run\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Entekhab<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> daily,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">said: \u201c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">There has been a rise in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Coronavirus<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u2019<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0spread in Fars Province over the past ten days. There is concern that the medical staff will suffer from fatigue and<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0will<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0be exhausted as the disease linger<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s on<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In addition,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ali Maher, a member of the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Anti-<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Corona Headquarters in Tehran, said: \u201cIn Tehran, it cannot be said that the situation has improved. We are waiting for the effects of the new conditions to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">appear<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Meanwhile, the regime\u2019s president Hassan Rouhani is insisting on the regime\u2019s criminal decision to send people back to work.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Trying to avoid further condemnation<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0of the regime\u2019s decision to send people back to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">work even<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">from within<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the regime<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">on April 18, Rouhani spoke of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">so-called\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cSmart Social Distancing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Plan<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The implementation of the Smart Social Distancing Plan has reduced the spread of the disease in some provinces and created a steady trend in other provinces<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0he said.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In another development,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mohammad-Reza Zafar\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ghandi<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, head of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">regime\u2019s Medical System Organization,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in a letter to Rouhani\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">on Thursday, wrote: \u201c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Any rush to open unnecessary and uncontrolled gathering sites such as places of worship, schools,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">universities<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0will spread the disease, take lives, and waste past efforts. It will also exhaust the country\u2019s medical staff<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The regime\u2019s reason for sending people back to work<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Since the coronavirus outbreak in Iran, the regime resorted to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">cover-up\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in order to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">use the disease to oppress and control the restive Iranian society.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Therefore, for days<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, the<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0mullahs avoided qu<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">arantining people and when they did, unlike other governments,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the Iranian\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">regime<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">did not<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0financially help peopl<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">e. The regime waste<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0the national wealth and resources on terrorism to export chaos abroad,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">billions of dollars are\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">lost in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the regime\u2019s black hole of corruption. <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The regime\u2019s attitude<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> increased the pressure on Iranian society<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">which is grappling with poverty and economic hardships.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0This financial hardship, which was rapidly creating an army of hungry people<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, terrified the regime\u2019s officials.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">T<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">he last two series of Iran protests\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in 201<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">7<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and 2019,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that shook the regime\u2019s foundation and pushed it t<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">o the edge of downfall, were triggered due to the economic hardships.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In this regard, t<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">he state-run\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sharq<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0daily wrote on April 8: \u201cThe relationship between the people and government has reached a crucial point. The events of November 2019 and January 2020 (Iran Protests) and the kind of slogans used at the time and the rate of participation in the March elections, along with the international attitude of the U.S. government and targeting the Islamic system\u2019s existence have created a situation that leaving it requires tough decisions.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Since its foundation, the mullahs\u2019 regime<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0has been\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">prioritizing its security and holding its grasp on power<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0over people\u2019s lives and well-being. The regime\u2019s founder, Ru<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">hollah Khomeini, blatantly said that \u201cpreserving the system is the top priority.\u201d With this\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">theory, Khomeini continued prolonged the Iran-Iraq War with millions of casualties, and if\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">was not<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0for the Iranian\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">R<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">esistance<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u2019s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">international and regional activities and the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">looming possibility of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a social turmoil, Khomeini\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">would have<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0continued this devastating war, as he\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">said: \u201cuntil the last house <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">standing\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in Tehran.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Due to its medieval ideology, institutionalized corruption, and oppressive nature, the regime was quickly <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">rejected by the Iranian society,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">therefore,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0to hold their grasp on power,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">mullahs seized every opportunity they had to massacre and oppress Iranian people.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Sending Iranian people back to work amid the coronavirus outbreak, like<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0manipulating and sending children to swipe\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">minefields during\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Iran-Iraq war, or massacr<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0hundreds of thousands of Iranian youth and opposition members and supporters<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, is another criminal decision by the religious fascism to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">oppress Iranian people and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">preserv<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">e<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">its rule.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Yet this is a strategic mistake. The Iranian people<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0with their glorious uprising in November an<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">d sacrificing over 1500 martyrs, their general boycott\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of the regime\u2019s sham parliamentary elections and with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MEK\u2019s<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-iran-protest\/targeting-irgc-looting-centers-in-isfahan-and-mashhad-and-setting-fire-to-khameneis-images-in-tehran\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Resistance\u00a0<\/a><\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Units as their\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">avant-gardes<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">will not succumb to the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">grief of this tragedy, as heartbreaking it is, <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0they will<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">rise up. In a nutshell, the restive Iranian society which is scor<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ching because of the regime\u2019s four<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">decades of injustice, imposing poverty, corruption, and oppression <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">await<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0a spark to explode.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the coronavirus death toll continues to rise in Iran, the regime&rsquo;s officials&nbsp;reluctantly acknowledge an inevitable new peak of the disease due to&nbsp;their&nbsp;criminal decision to send people back to work.&nbsp;Yet [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":217205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[186],"class_list":{"0":"post-217203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-human-rights","8":"tag-coronavirus"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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