{"id":228257,"date":"2020-10-21T16:48:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T15:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=228257"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:38:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:38:21","slug":"covid-19-in-iran-a-blessing-or-a-national-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/covid-19-in-iran-a-blessing-or-a-national-catastrophe\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 in Iran: A Blessing or a National Catastrophe?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Struggling with one of the most lethal viral pandemics in modern history, every single country is trying hard to control the invisible enemy. However, the Iranian regime is showing frequent symptoms that it is literally appreciating the occasion, trying to exploit the global tragedy to its own benefit.<\/p>\n

In the fourth quarter of 2020, Iran has been reported among the worst hit countries by the Coronavirus, surpassing Brazil, Russia, India and the US in its mortality rate<\/a>. Despite Tehran being notorious<\/a> when it comes to subject \u201ctransparency towards international media<\/a>\u201d, daily news about the staggering numbers out of the Middle Eastern autocracy shocks political analysts about the regime\u2019s latest approach.<\/p>\n

But surprisingly, almost every article published in Western publications that is covering the latest tragedy in Iran hardly manages to separate the pandemic from the US sanctions. It is like a synchronized outcry for Washington<\/a> to ease its maximum pressure and let the regime \u201cto help\u201d its people overcoming the crisis. It takes a deep appreciation of the complex nature into the regime\u2019s mindset for disguise and deception to understand how the various propaganda apparatus in Tehran are pulling the strings.<\/p>\n

The international news media have also been reporting that Iran is experiencing a serious uphill battle with the COVID-19 virus, calling it \u201cthe third wave<\/a>\u201d. While reading the number of waves indicates a cycle of an ongoing encounter and some ups and downs fighting the pandemic in almost every country, the term is actually a well-engineered concept for the regime to cover up its inability (or unwillingness) to respond to the crisis.<\/p>\n

“This is not so much about a second or third wave \u2014 we are facing an ongoing pandemic and have a tough struggle ahead of us,” the head of Iran’s University of Medical Sciences, Abbas Ali Karimi, told students<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ever since the beginning of the pandemic, the Iranian regime\u2019s supreme leader Ali Khamenei has been calling it a blessing<\/a>. Pointing to the Iran-Iraq war, he has said: \u201cWar is naturally a terrible and violent phenomenon. But this violent and terrible phenomenon which lasted eight years had blessings for us as I counted them earlier, and there are more to be said about that. In other words, we achieved good and freshness from it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Khamenei dismisses Coronavirus as not that big a deal, even calls it a blessing!<\/div><\/div>
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