{"id":237571,"date":"2021-04-09T09:50:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T14:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=237571"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:59:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:59:41","slug":"iran-state-run-media-admit-to-regimes-inhumane-covid-19-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/iran-state-run-media-admit-to-regimes-inhumane-covid-19-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran State-Run Media Admit to Regime\u2019s Inhumane COVID-19 Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Iran is now going through the fourth wave of the Covid-19 outbreak. The situation has reached a point that even regime officials and state-run media are speaking of a catastrophe. As the deaths and infections continue, state-run media acknowledge that Iran\u2019s worsening Covid-19 outbreak<\/a> is due to the regime\u2019s inhuman policies.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile coronavirus takes more lives daily, the government delays in the lockdown of Tehran and other metropolises,\u201d wrote the state-run Jahane-e Sanat daily, in an\u00a0article<\/a>\u00a0titled \u201cPeople, victims of mismanagement,\u201d on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is possible to control the current crisis through public education and lockdown. But after 14 months and [the regime\u2019s] delay in procuring vaccines, the government and Health Ministry are unable to control Coronavirus,\u201d Jahan-e Sanat added.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Payam Tabresi, infectious disease specialist and head of the infectious department of Masih Daneshvari Hospital in Tehran, told Jahan-e Sanat that \u201cdue to the spread of the mutated strain of Covid-19, in my opinion, it is too late implements restrictions, because the mutated strain of Covid-19 has circulated in Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe governments did not think of implementing restriction before the Nowruz holiday. Now people pay the price of officials\u2019 inefficiencies with their lives. The country is facing a severe coronavirus wave and an increase in deaths in three months. Unfortunately, there are no beds to treat patients,\u201d Tabresi added.<\/p>\n

Following the November 2019 uprising<\/a>, the regime was looking for a solution to control the restive society. Thus, mullahs embraced the Covid-19 outbreak<\/a>. They initially denied the existence of the virus in Iran and refused to quarantine the city of Qom, where the virus was first detected. When they admitted, the virus has been transmitted to Iran, they tried to downplay the crisis and maintained the economy and public gatherings open. Finally, in March 2020, the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei called the virus a \u201ctest\u201d and \u201cblessing,\u201d which could result \u201cin opportunities\u201d for the regime. Khamenei confirmed his intention of using Covid-19 to murder Iranians, when on January 8, 2021, he banned the entry of certified vaccines in Iran. According to the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK<\/a>), over 246,000 people have lost their lives as of Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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