Since the virus spread to Iran and the first instances of fatalities were seen, the mullahs for political reasons covered it up. There has been a systematic campaign of deception, lying, and downplaying of the scope. Security apparatus, namely the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), took control of the dissemination of information.
\nThe mullahs refrained from any meaningful lockdown or quarantining hotspots. They did not provide hospitals with required funding, equipment, and salaries for doctors and nurses. The regime refrained from deploying the government\u2019s resources, particularly its financial and technological resources consolidated in the IRGC\u2019s holdings and companies as well as by the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei\u2019s Headquarters. The Health Minister said that despite his repeated appeals since the beginning of the outbreak for the first time, only 300 million Euros was provided to the ministry in June, the equivalent of 3.5 Euros per person to confront the pandemic. Yet, the mullahs continued to launch expensive satellites into space. Concurrently, the regime pursued its belligerent and terrorist activities in Iraq and Syria and escalated its ominous nuclear activities to a new level.
\nThe mullahs abandoned the obligations that any government fulfills when faced with emergency conditions. They provided almost no assistance to the people, especially the poor, forcing them to go back to work in order to survive.
\nThe coronavirus crisis in Iran should not be compared with the situation in other countries.
\nIn Iran, the regime and the virus are on one side and the people are on the other side.
\nIn March, Khamenei openly said that he sought to create an opportunity and a blessing out of the coronavirus crisis. He and his president, Hassan Rouhani, pursued the strategy of colossal human fatalities as a barrier against the threat of an uprising and eventual overthrow and to pacify and demoralize the Iranian society, rendering it hopeless and paralyzed.
\nIranians have paid dearly. Tragic scenes in Iranian cities, morgues, and cemeteries are daily reminders of the fact that the abnormal surging trend of the number of coronavirus victims in Iran is a product of Khamenei and Rouhani.
\nBut the mullahs have failed, and the fear of a popular uprising has been a common thread in senior officials.
\nThe fate of the coronavirus and fate of the ayatollahs have become intertwined in Iran.<\/p>\n
Regarding the tragic Coronavirus crisis in Iran and more than 100,000 fatalities, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi<\/a>, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran<\/a> (NCRI<\/a>), said: This scale of the death toll is the immediate result of the criminal and inhuman policies pursued by Khamenei and Rouhani. This was entirely preventable. They are now producing a more massive catastrophe by sending children to school. Khamenei and the Revolutionary Guards do not spend even a fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars they have plundered from the Iranian people to combat the Coronavirus. Nor do they even pay the salaries of nurses and doctors and medical staff who work around the clock and risk their lives and those of their families to save the lives of patients. Even though the regime’s experts and mid-level officials unanimously describe the opening of schools to be dangerous, by causing mass casualties, the regime seeks to create a barrier against the crisis of being overthrown and overshadow popular uprisings.<\/p>\n The tragic #coronavirus<\/a> pandemic has cast a dark shadow over our nation for the past seven months. Khamenei, Rouhani and the gangs ruling our country do not spend even a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars they have usurped from our nation. #Iran<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/89cn9TrHFn<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) September 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The following chronology has been produced based on the NCRI\u2019s statements in regard to spread of coronavirus in Iran:<\/p>\n February 21, 2020<\/a>:<\/strong> Iranian opposition leader Mrs. Maryam Rajavi calls on WHO to send supervisory and medical teams to Iran<\/strong> March 2, 2020<\/strong><\/a>: Number of victims of Coronavirus in Qom<\/a> surpasses 300<\/strong><\/p>\n On February 23, Aboldreza Rahmani Fazli, the Interior Minister, admitted, \u201cSome people recommended that we postpone the election. Regarding Qom, they insisted we postpone the election in the city. As the official responsible for the election, I did not accept any of these (recommendations).\u201d<\/p>\n After weeks of lies, Rouhani admits<\/a> the virus has spread to all provinces<\/strong><\/p>\n Following the cancellation of all foreign trips for government agencies, today and after weeks of lies, Hassan Rouhani, who had suggested a week ago that \u201clife would have returned to normal\u201d by the end February 2020, reluctantly (4 days ago) admitted, \u201cThis disease has spread widely to almost all of our provinces\u201d. Furious over the revelation of actual casualty figures, Rouhani lamented, \u201cThey give false numbers, and they claim that we do not tell the truth to the people.\u201d He impudently added, \u201cFrom day one, once we suspected the virus had entered the country, we immediately instructed the Ministry of Health to inform the public about the figures and the relevant information. We told them not to hide anything from the public\u201d.<\/p>\n March 8, 2020<\/a>:<\/strong> Horrific Coronavirus Death Toll in Gilan March 23, 2020<\/a>:<\/strong> April 11, 2020<\/a>:<\/strong> April 16, 2020<\/a>:<\/strong> May 8, 2020<\/a>:<\/strong> Despite Rouhani\u2019s lies, head of epidemiology committee of Health Ministry<\/a> warns of upward trend for Coronavirus in 15 provinces<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Mohammad-Reza Mahboobfar, a member of the Coronavirus Prevention Committee, told the state-run daily, Vatan Emrouz: \u201cThe division of the country\u2019s geography into white, yellow and red areas to fight the Coronavirus has no scientific basis considering the widespread outbreak of this mysterious virus in the entire country, and it is just playing with words. The President seems to be falsely optimistic by giving colors to cities and regions of the country weighing the Coronavirus outbreak in each region in this way, because there is no point in the country as a white zone free of the Coronavirus.<\/p>\n June 7, 2020<\/a>:<\/strong> June 22, 2020<\/a>:<\/strong> July 13, 2020<\/a>:<\/strong> July 31, 2020<\/a>:<\/strong> August 9, 2020<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n Member of NCCT: The first patient was identified in late December, but the Government engaged in a cover-up. The Health Ministry statistics are one-twentieth of the actual figures August 10, 2020<\/a>:<\/strong>\n
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Chronology of spread of the coronavirus in Iran and the regime\u2019s lies and cover-ups<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nThe mullahs\u2019 regime, which had been falsely denying the spread of Coronavirus to Iran so far, admitted for the first time today the death of two Coronavirus patients in the city of Qom.
\nAuthorities are refusing to announce the actual number of those effected and deceased. This is while the residents of Qom put the number of deaths at 12 and those infected at more than 200. The mullahs\u2019 criminal cover-up has caused public anxiety, the spread of the virus, and a rise in the number of the victims.<\/p>\n
\nThe death toll announced by the NCRI: over 1000
\nThe regime\u2019s official death toll: 124<\/p>\n
\nMohammad Hossein Ghorbani, the Parliament\u2019s Health Commission Deputy Chairman, appointed as the Health Minister\u2019s representative in Gilan Province two days ago, sent a confidential report to Khamenei\u2019s office in which he wrote that 408, including six physicians, had died in the province because of virus infection. He added that 1,860 hospitalized patients were mostly in critical condition.<\/p>\n
\nThe death toll announced by the NCRI: over 10,500
\nThe regime\u2019s official death toll: 1,812
\nA wave of arrests for rumormongering about the death toll
\nBlatant Lies<\/a> by Mullahs\u2019 President Hassan Rouhani
\nRouhani: \u201cWe learned on February 19 that Coronavirus had come\u2026 Then the people were told. We did not delay even a day.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe death toll announced by the NCRI: over 25,000
\nThe regime\u2019s official death toll: 4,357
\nYesterday, Mohammad Reza Qadir, director of Qom\u2019s University of Medical Sciences, told the regime\u2019s official news agency that 300 patients were hospitalized with acute respiratory problems and suspected Coronavirus infection, 19 of whom were children.
\nHossein-Ali Shahriari, a regime\u2019s parliament deputy from Zahedan, told the state TV Channel 5, on April 10, 2020: \u201cIf we remove the quarantines earlier than scheduled, we will experience a higher peak. There are many positive tests in Sistan and Baluchistan, and even in these few days, this is the case, and we are worried about witnessing a higher peak. The number of deaths among our medical staff has been higher than in the time of war.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Coronavirus-figures-sept-7-2020-1\"](\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Coronavirus-figures-sept-7-2020-1-300x174.jpg\" "\\"Coronavirus-figures-sept-7-2020-1\\"")
\nThe death toll announced by the NCRI: over 30,000
\nThe regime\u2019s official death toll: 4,869
\nCover-up in fear of a popular uprising
\nCivil Registration website shut down and medical universities banned from giving statistics<\/p>\n
\nThe death toll announced by the NCRI: over 40,000
\nThe regime\u2019s official death toll: 6,541
\nMaryam Rajavi: under the mullahs\u2019 rule, the people are extremely vulnerable in the face of earthquakes and the virus, especially in Tehran, with a population of 14 million. The mullahs have destroyed and looted all the infrastructure. Expressing sympathy and helping in this emergency is a nationalistic duty. Valiant youth and vanguard women in popular councils must take the initiative.<\/p>\n
\nThe death toll announced by the NCRI: over 50,000
\nThe regime\u2019s official death toll: 8,281<\/p>\n
\nThe death toll announced by the NCRI: over 60,000
\nThe regime\u2019s official death toll: 9,742
\nMohammad Reza Mahboobfar<\/a>, a member of the National Coronavirus Task Force (NTTC), was quoted by Mehr news agency as saying on June 28: \u201cThree out of ten people in Isfahan carry the virus. With the Coronavirus spreading in the country, deaths are on the rise. I can dare say that two people die every 15 minutes (192 in 24 hours) because of this disease.\u201d
\nIn Tehran, Alireza Zali, head of the NCCT, told state TV yesterday that 399 people had been admitted to the ordinary units and 122 to the Intensive Care Units in the past 24 hours. He said, \u201cThe figures in Tehran are changing worryingly\u2026For the first time, the number of those hospitalized has surpassed the number of discharged patients.\u201d
\nNahid Khodakarami, head of the Tehran City Council\u2019s Health Commission, was quoted by the Modara website yesterday: \u201cSince the beginning of the Coronavirus outbreak, more than 5,000 Tehran residents have lost their lives\u201d. Earlier, on June 11, Zali had said: \u201cThe mortality rate in Tehran Province is much lower than in the rest of the country \u2026 The average age of mortality in Tehran is ten years older than the national average.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe death toll announced by the NCRI: over 70,300
\nThe regime\u2019s official death toll: 13,032<\/p>\n
\nThe death toll announced by the NCRI: over 80,100
\nThe regime\u2019s official death toll: 16,766<\/p>\n
\nMohammad Reza Mahboobfar, a member of the National Coronavirus Combat Task Force, told Jahan San\u2019at daily yesterday: \u201cIn late December, precisely one month before the official announcement of the emergence of the Coronavirus in the country, the first case of an infected patient was identified.<\/p>\n
\nThe Jahan-e-Sanat daily was shut down after quoting Dr. Mahboobfar, a member of the National Coronavirus Combat Taskforce (NCCT), as saying that the number of patients and deaths is 20 times higher than the figures announced by the Health Ministry.<\/p>\n
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