{"id":218044,"date":"2020-05-09T11:24:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T10:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=218044"},"modified":"2023-01-23T21:05:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T20:05:04","slug":"in-reopening-its-economy-irans-regime-relies-on-disinformation-disregard-for-human-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/economy\/in-reopening-its-economy-irans-regime-relies-on-disinformation-disregard-for-human-life\/","title":{"rendered":"In Reopening Its Economy, Iran\u2019s Regime Relies on Disinformation, Disregard for Human Life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iran: Heavy traffic in Tehran due to re-opening business activities despite still being amid the worst coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Iran<\/span>ian regime<\/span>\u00a0is currently in the process of re-opening\u00a0<\/span>business activities<\/span>\u00a0despite still being\u00a0<\/span>amid<\/span>\u00a0the worst coronavirus outbreak<\/a> in the Middle East. Questions about the official infection rates and death tolls leave open the possibility that Iran\u2019s outbreak is among the worst in the world. And this in turn underscores the extent to which the Iranian regime places self-serving economic priorities and its own power ahead of human life.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Officially, just over 6,000 Iranians have died of Covid-19 since the presence of the illness was confirmed on February 19. The same official estimates indicate that Iran has just surpassed 100,000 total cases. However, the Health Ministry is reportedly not using antibody tests and is even attempting to ship its own to Europe. This betrays the regime\u2019s interest in avoiding confirmation of prior coronavirus infections,\u00a0<\/span>to<\/span>\u00a0downplay the extent of the outbreak.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nevertheless, one member of the\u00a0<\/span>regime\u2019s<\/span>\u00a0coronavirus task force stated last month that the illness had likely spread to more than half a million people. Even earlier than that, the National Council of Resistance of Iran<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(NCRI)<\/span>\u00a0suggested that the total number of infections could probably be measured in the millions. The\u00a0<\/span>NCRI<\/span><\/a>\u00a0has also continually revised mortality estimates and now\u00a0<\/span>it has announced\u00a0<\/span>that Covid-19 has killed around 40,000 people in Iran.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This estimate is derived, in part, from hospital records obtained by an intelligence network affiliated with the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(PMOI-MEK)<\/span>. It also align<\/span>s<\/span>\u00a0with testimony from Iranian doctors, nurses, morgue attendants, and other eyewitnesses to the outbreak. As well as reporting that many hospitals were overwhelmed with patients and were routinely reporting dozens of deaths per day, these individuals have frequently suffered arrest or harassment by authorities, for the crime of \u201crumor mongering.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In what were ostensibly the early stages of the outbreak, the Iranian judiciary made it clear that the penalty for this crime was up to three years in prison, plus flogging. The threat left little doubt that the regime was already committed to suppressing alternative accounts of Covid-19\u2019s impact and the Iranian government\u2019s response to it. Among other \u201crumors,\u201d the authorities sought to counter public descriptions of an outbreak that was under way long before the regime acknowledged it.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

These rumors were confirmed in March when the\u00a0<\/span>MEK<\/span>\u00a0intelligence network uncovered documents from Iran\u2019s National Emergency Organization, which demonstrated that patients suffering from coronavirus infection had been admitted to Iranian hospitals as early as January. But\u00a0<\/span>the regime<\/span>\u00a0was already losing its battle against the truth within about a week of its first public statement regarding the outbreak.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At the time,\u00a0<\/span>regime\u2019s<\/span>\u00a0authorities were still insisting that only about a dozen people had died from Covid-19, but at least one local official spoke out to say that upwards of 50 fatal cases had been recorded in the city of Qom alone. The early disinformation goes a long way toward explaining the dramatic mismatch between official death tolls and those reported by independent sources like the NCRI<\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran<\/span>\u00a0regime<\/span>\u2019s countermeasures were put into place much later than in neighboring countries, despite the Iranian outbreak having started much earlier. And now that those countermeasures are winding down, Tehran\u2019s account of their impact is becoming less and less plausible, thanks to the volumes of information being smuggled out of the country by Iranian social media users, activists, an<\/span>d most importantly by the Iranian Resistance<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the restrictions on commerce and travel are now winding down, with about a third of Iran\u2019s administrative divisions already being declared practically clear of the virus. This flies in the face of advice from\u00a0<\/span>the regime\u2019s own\u00a0<\/span>Health Ministry officials, who insist there are no \u201cwhite zones\u201d anywhere in the country. Persons outside of the regime hierarchy are naturally sounding even more serious alarms. At least one study has run models starting with the death tolls provided by the NCRI<\/a> and has determined that the number of fatalities could more than double by the end of May unless\u00a0<\/span>the regime<\/span>\u00a0changes course.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>But\u00a0<\/span>that is<\/span>\u00a0unlikely to happen.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The prospect of even larger-scale sickness and death is not sufficient to make the regime reconsider this strategy, even though it could very easily do so.\u00a0<\/span>The regime\u2019s<\/span>\u00a0supreme leader<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>and its paramilitary are sitting on hundreds of thousands of dollars in assets, which could be used to help the Iranian people weather this crisis and avoid even worse levels of poverty than they are already experiencing.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But in utilizing these resources, the authorities would be drawing against long-term plans to continue funding regional militant groups,\u00a0<\/span>developing,<\/span>\u00a0and testing ballistic missiles, and otherwise presenting an image of strength to foreign adversaries. This is more important to the mullahs than human lives. Those selfish priorities are poorly concealed by the disinformation is now using to justify the resumption of economic activity.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Comparatively few Iranians will be taken in by this disinformation. But that\u00a0<\/span>does not<\/span>\u00a0alter the fact that in absence of meaningful support from\u00a0<\/span>the regime<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>but to pay the price of<\/span>\u00a0the regime\u2019s plans. On the other hand, this compliance only extends as far as is needed to stave of personal financial ruin. In the long run, as the extent of Iran<\/span>ian regime<\/span>\u2019s disregard for human life becomes clearer and clearer, many of those same citizen<\/span>s will surely do what they can to hold the regime to account, in line with countless anti-<\/span>regime<\/span>\u00a0protests that have rocked the nation in recent years.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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