{"id":237511,"date":"2021-04-08T13:12:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T18:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=237511"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:59:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:59:48","slug":"irans-regime-will-not-act-to-stop-covid-19-worsening-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/irans-regime-will-not-act-to-stop-covid-19-worsening-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Regime Will Not Act To Stop COVID-19 Worsening Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"iran-street-people-walking\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-237512 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-street-people-walking.jpg\" alt=\"iran-street-people-walking\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-street-people-walking.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-street-people-walking-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-street-people-walking-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-street-people-walking-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-street-people-walking-696x456.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-street-people-walking-741x486.jpg 741w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Iranian regime\u2019s Health Ministry has acknowledged in recent days that the country is in the midst of a \u201cfourth wave\u201d of coronavirus infection. Some officials even go so far as to say that this latest pattern of outbreaks is even more rapid and even more lethal than the previous waves, owing in part to the fact that the UK variant of the virus that originally caused Covid-19 has become prevalent in most, if not all of Iran\u2019s 31 provinces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cWhen a new wave starts, it lasts two months, and we can reduce the wave\u2019s amplitude with some precautions, but we can\u2019t cause any change in the wave itself. Hospitals and ICU sections will be full for at least two months and the death toll will rise,\u201d Payam Tabarsi, member of the Covid-19 Task Force scientific council told the state-run Mehr News Agency on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">According to reports tallied by the Iranian opposition, People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/primer-the-history-the-peoples-mojahedin-organization-iran\" rel=\"noopener\">PMOI\/MEK<\/a>) over 245,600 people have lost their lives as of Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Despite all this, few countermeasures have been taken to stop the situation from getting worse. The regime has promoted only the idea of imposing new restrictions on travel and public gathering at some indeterminate point in the future after the situation becomes even worse than what has been observed in recent days. The recent observations include the highest death toll in more than 100 days, but estimates from the Health Ministry actually represent dramatic under-reporting of infection and mortality rates.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Why Iran&rsquo;s Regime Refuses To Purchase COVID-19 Vaccine - December 2020\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_owvw4PKVHBQ\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Fowvw4PKVHBQ%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/owvw4PKVHBQ\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT2M2S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2020-12-28T09:19:53Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_owvw4PKVHBQ\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Fowvw4PKVHBQ%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Why Iran\u2019s Regime Refuses To Purchase COVID-19 Vaccine - December 2020<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/owvw4PKVHBQ\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Fowvw4PKVHBQ%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Why Iran&rsquo;s Regime Refuses To Purchase COVID-19 Vaccine - December 2020\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Why Iran\u2019s Regime Refuses To Purchase COVID-19 Vaccine? Unlike other nations, Iran\u2019s people are not receiving the Covid-19 vaccine, despite the high death toll. Tehran blames U.S. sanctions for its delay in purchasing vaccines. While inside Iran, the regime speaks of producing a \u201cdomestic vaccine.\u201d So, what is the real problem? \u201cThe price of the vaccine for the Iranian economy is not an extraordinary amount that it cannot provide...\u201d The U.S. Treasury\u2019s Office on Foreign Assets Control had issued a license covering coronavirus vaccine procurement. Over\u00a0190,000 people\u00a0have so far died of the novel coronavirus. The regime\u2019s Supreme leader Ali Khamenei, the institutions under his control, government agencies, and the state-affiliated mafias are looking to use the vaccine as a means of plundering billions of dollars at the price of thousands of Iranian lives. But this is not the whole story. The flip side of this coin is the Iranian people\u2019s anger, that according to the regime\u2019s media, is likely to explode at any moment. Read More: https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/IranNCR\/ https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy Subscribe to NCRI weekly newsletter t.ly\/MybJ #Iran #humanrights #Vaccine #COVID-19\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:853px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi has stated that the country is \u201cnot so far away\u201d from a daily death toll of more than 200 Iranians. When that point is reached, he told the official IRNA news outlet, \u201cwe may have to impose relative quarantine measures.\u201d It is not clear exactly what those measures would consist of, but based on authorities&#8217; actions during previous waves, they would likely fall well short of international recommendations concerning similar situations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">When the community spread of the novel coronavirus proved to be out of control one year ago, Hassan Rouhani\u2019s government, imposed restrictions on travel between major metropolitan areas. But they were too late, and the regime was inconsistent in its enforcement of those restrictions. Regime officials were more focused on promoting Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei\u2019s goal of boosting economic production in spite of the pandemic and using the virus and its mass casualties as a barrier to another nationwide uprising.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This priority was explicitly outlined by Khamenei in a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/economy\/khamenei-plan-to-further-plunder-irans-people\/\" rel=\"noopener\">speech<\/a> marking the Iranian New Year in March 2020, and it arguably served as a partial explanation for his reluctance to release reserved financial assets like those contained in religious foundations that he personally controls. Khamenei eventually approved the dispersal of one billion dollars from the country\u2019s Sovereign Wealth Fund, but later reports indicated that tens of millions appeared to be redirected away from their intended recipients, namely the Health Ministry\u2019s Covid response team and the general public.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As a result of this lack of financial support, coupled with public disinformation and pressure, few Iranians were able to comply with recommendations that they avoid work. The disinformation in question began with the regime\u2019s failure to publicly acknowledge that Covid-19 had even reached Iran until more than a month after the first cases had been recorded. Those records were eventually released to the public via an intelligence network of the MEK, and they exposed the falsity of Rouhani\u2019s claim that the regime \u201cdid not delay even one day\u201d in informing the people about the crisis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Quite to the contrary, Rouhani, Khamenei, and other leading regime officials used the period between the first known cases and the first public statements to urge widespread public participation in a celebration of the regime\u2019s anniversary and, later, in February 2020 the sham parliamentary elections. Authorities would later use nascent public awareness of the coronavirus pandemic as an explanation for those elections having historically the lowest turnout, which showed Iranian people\u2019s hatred toward the regime.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Khamenei bans import of Covid-19 vaccines\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_qkDlcSzSm0k\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FqkDlcSzSm0k%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qkDlcSzSm0k\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT2M14S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-01-14T19:54:53Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_qkDlcSzSm0k\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FqkDlcSzSm0k%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Khamenei bans import of Covid-19 vaccines<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qkDlcSzSm0k\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FqkDlcSzSm0k%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Khamenei bans import of Covid-19 vaccines\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"After days of deception and delay in procuring Covid-19 vaccines, the Iranian regime\u2019s Supreme Leader explicitly banned the import of credible vaccines to Iran. His remarks contradict previous claims by officials. Iranian people\u2019s demand: It is already late, purchase vaccines now. Mohammad Reza Ghazanfari, Head of Iran&#039;s Medical System Organization - December 21: \u201cProviding vaccines to the people is a vital, definitive and coercive priority.\u201d State-run Jahan-e Sanat daily - December 22: \u201cAny delay in procuring foreign vaccines and waiting for the domestically produced vaccines would mean the death of a significant number of people. Thus, the procuring of vaccines is a national right that is already too late.\u201d Iran regime\u2019s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei - January 8, 2021: \u201cImporting vaccines made in the US or the UK is prohibited. I told this to the officials, and I say it publicly now.\u201d Amnesty International \u2013 January 8: \u201cIran&#039;s Supreme Leader banning lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines from the UK and US to millions of people in Iran is in step with the Iranian authorities&#039; decades-long contempt for human rights, including the right to life and health.\u201d Iranians on social media: \u201cWho the hell is he to decide for people\u2019s lives? Someone tell this idiot scientific achievements are not related to politics.\u201d Ali Rabie, Iranian government\u2019s spokesperson \u2013 January 9: \u201cOur plan from the beginning was not to buy foreign-made vaccines before being sure.\u201d Hassan Rouhani, regime\u2019s president \u2013 January 9: \u201cOur Health Ministry righteously rejected vaccines.\u201d Said Namaki, regime\u2019s Health Minister - December 23: \u201cThis is not the case. We were among the first countries who sought to purchase vaccines.\u201d Khamenei - January 8: \u201cIf Pfizer is able to manufacture vaccines, why do they want to give it to us?\u201d State-run Sharq daily, interview with Abdolreza Nasser Moghaddasi, Neurologist - December 22: \u201cAre our people\u2019s lives worthless? I have lost patience. Not just me, but all health workers have lost patience, at least those who still breath.\u201d Khamenei - January 8: \u201cImporting vaccines made in the US or the UK is prohibited.\u201d Amnesty International statement - January 9: \u201cIran\u2019s Supreme Leader is toying with millions of lives\u201d Iranian people\u2019s answer to Khamenei\u2019s mass murder decree: Khamenei must be tried for war crimes and playing with the lives of millions of Iranians. People chant: \u201cKhamenei is a murderer, his supremacy in revoked.\u201d Read More: https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/IranNCR\/ https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy Subscribe to NCRI weekly newsletter t.ly\/MybJ #Iran #COVID19 #vaccine\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:853px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The regime will hold its sham presidential election in June. To a great extent, the outcome of that election appears to be pre-determined on account of the powerful Guardian Council declaring all supposed reformists to be ineligible. Iranian people have been calling for another national boycott. This in turn presents a challenge to the regime\u2019s effort at using the electoral process to present a veneer of legitimacy and democracy for the theocratic dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The sham presidential election is scheduled for June, which theoretically offers the regime a significant opportunity to distribute vaccines as part of a broader effort at getting the fourth wave under control. However, authorities have created their own roadblocks to that effort in advance, with the supreme leader formally banning the import of vaccines from the United States and Britain, then spearheading an effort to shift control over distribution from the Health Ministry to corrupt private sector entities that are dominated by the regime\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/inside-irans-army-of-terror-and-oppression-revolutionary-guards-irgc\/\" rel=\"noopener\">IRGC<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This parallels other measures that allowed the IRGC to exploit the pandemic for the further expansion of its own wealth and power. One prominent example was the announcement, last year, that Revolutionary Guards would be going house-to-house amid outbreaks, ostensibly to identify infected individuals and trace their contacts. In practice, these community sweeps no doubt contributed to an atmosphere of intimidation at a time when the regime was noticeably worried that public outrage over a bungled response to the pandemic would fuel more protests like those that encompassed much of Iran in January 2018, November 2019, and January 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The IRGC was also tasked with helping to enforce a ban on public statements that contradicted the regime\u2019s bogus narratives about coronavirus outbreaks. Penalties for such disclosures were announced, slowing the growth of public awareness during the early months that were crucial in setting the tone for the entire Iranian segment of the pandemic. It was ultimately defiance of that ban by the Iranian Resistance that forced Tehran to acknowledge that the problem had grown serious. But by then, the damage was done and the pace of mortality had apparently exceeded the Health Ministry\u2019s ability to catch up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\" rel=\"noopener\">MEK<\/a> through its intelligence network, from hospital records and eyewitness testimony, has announced that nearly a quarter of a million Iranians had died from Covid-19. At the same time, the Healthy Ministry\u2019s estimate is barely a quarter of that, or just over 63,000. Even if official narratives about the pace of the fourth wave are not similarly understated, the broader discrepancy points to a situation that desperately requires intervention. A regime\u2019s Member of Parliament from Shiraz said as much on Friday, in remarks to Tasnim News Agency.<br \/>\n\u201cFars province has returned to the early difficult days of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is necessary that our officials adopt essential measures as soon as possible,\u201d he said. Nevertheless, the regime official approach continues to be one of the delayed interventions or none at all. Rouhani has seemingly been playing both sides of the issue by blaming current statistics on ordinary citizens who took part in last month\u2019s Nowruz celebrations while also stating that ceremonies marking the holy month of Ramadan will only be restricted in areas that are designated \u201cred\u201d or \u201corange\u201d on the country\u2019s four-level scale of coronavirus risk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As the situation continues to unfold, more of those designations will surely emerge, but most of them will represent a rate of infection that was widely anticipated by health professionals and thus could have been avoided. Staff at Beheshti Hospital recently noted that in that facility alone, there was a 100 percent increase in the number of patients during just the last week of March. And in Tehran, the regime\u2019s Deputy Health Minister Harirchi said that during roughly the same period the total number of positive tests had doubled from 31,000 to 61,000, with some regions returning positivity rates of around 50 percent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cThe latest data of the positive cases from across the country indicate increasing numbers and they are rising in a vertical manner,\u201d he said. Yet this remark was offered as part of the same interview in which Harirchi said that only \u201crelative quarantine measures\u201d were currently on the table and that the prospect of following through with those measures was in doubt, even if regime engineered statistics reach the benchmark of 200 deaths per day. Meanwhile, the severity of the crisis is underscored by the number of prior reports that suggest that official reports of this magnitude only mask a reality that is even more catastrophic for the entire Iranian population.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stats.sender.net\/forms\/dGYVLa\/view\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-219239 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1.png\" alt=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1\" width=\"250\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iranian regime&rsquo;s Health Ministry has acknowledged in recent days that the country is in the midst of a &ldquo;fourth wave&rdquo; of coronavirus infection. 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