{"id":237774,"date":"2021-04-12T08:34:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T13:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=237774"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:59:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:59:19","slug":"irans-covid-19-crisis-endangers-regimes-grip-on-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/irans-covid-19-crisis-endangers-regimes-grip-on-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s COVID-19 Crisis Endangers Regime\u2019s Grip on Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Iran-Bazar-001\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-237775 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Iran-Bazar-001.jpg\" alt=\"Iran, full-packed Bazaar \" width=\"800\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Iran-Bazar-001.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Iran-Bazar-001-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Iran-Bazar-001-768x468.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Iran-Bazar-001-150x91.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Iran-Bazar-001-696x424.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">After two years of deception, the Iranian regime\u2019s President Hassan Rouhani acknowledged Iran is now experiencing the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/the-fourth-wave-of-covid-19-outbreak-in-iran-the-regimes-indifference\/\" rel=\"noopener\">fourth wave<\/a> of the Covid-19 outbreak. \u201cWe have a hard period ahead of us,\u201d he said on Saturday, showing the regime\u2019s inhumane covid-19 has failed.<br \/>\nThe regime used the Covid-19 outbreak to quell the restive society following the major November uprising. This inhumane policy was centered around inaction and cover-up. Now officials and state-run media acknowledge the situation is critical.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Rouhani and other officials are not worried about the people\u2019s health. The regime\u2019s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, called this virus a \u201ctest\u201d and \u201cblessing.\u201d And as the state-run Resalat daily wrote on Saturday, \u201cCovid-19 Combat Task Force headed by Rouhani is not worried about people\u2019s health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The regime officials are worried about the worsening of this crisis for two reasons. First, there is condensed hatred in the society toward the regime because of its inhumane covid-19 policy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cAlthough the coronavirus crisis delays the conflict, delaying it at the cost of overwhelming issues is a challenge in society. In other words, when society is freed from the clutches of this disease, political, social, and economic faults will begin to move with greater destructive power,\u201d wrote the state-run Jahan-e Sanat on March 15 in this regard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Secondly, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-human-rights\/iran-the-staggering-number-of-covid-19-death-toll-in-535-cities-exceeds-249000\/#\" rel=\"noopener\">ongoing campaign<\/a> by the Iranian Resistance in exposing the regime\u2019s inhumane cover-up has caused Rouhani and Khamenei to fail in blaming innocent people for the Covid-19 spread. Thus, the public hatred toward Khamenei and his regime continues to grow.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"COVID-19 Claims 200,000 Victims in Iran\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_YYz8VUkdPwc\" 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%2FYYz8VUkdPwc%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YYz8VUkdPwc\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT10M14S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-01-11T13:45:52Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_YYz8VUkdPwc\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FYYz8VUkdPwc%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">COVID-19 Claims 200,000 Victims in Iran<\/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\/YYz8VUkdPwc\" 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%2FYYz8VUkdPwc%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"COVID-19 Claims 200,000 Victims in Iran\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"The mullahs play with people\u2019s lives through their inhumane Coronavirus policies The novel coronavirus crisis and the mullahs\u2019 inhumane policies and inaction, including sending people to work where the virus is prevalent, refusing to pay the costs of a quarantine, and providing no prospect for a vaccine, have turned the people of Iran into the most vulnerable victims of this pandemic. The coronavirus illness has been a test for all governments. The mullahs have shown that not only are they indifferent to the health of the people, but even worse, they see this deadly virus as a \u201cblessing\u201d and an \u201copportunity\u201d to extend their rule, to the point that each day the death toll rises in Iran, surpassing the 200,000 thresholds. From the outset when the virus reached Iran, unlike other governments, Iran\u2019s regime failed to adopt standard procedures such as issuing an urgent alert, imposing quarantine measures, providing for the people\u2019s necessary provisions during quarantine, and increasing medical facilities to control the disease. Instead, its policy was to minimize the threat and cover up the realities. After 200,000 deaths, public demand for a viable vaccine is growing louder each day. Yet, there are no signs that the authorities are dedicating a budget or adequately administrating the situation or even preparing the necessary resources. The regime\u2019s leaders resort to any excuse to justify their inaction, and officials even lay the blame on various obstacles in the way of purchasing and importing vaccines. As in the case of Covid-19, they have turned its vaccine into a political issue as well, which will only result in a rising death toll. \u201cThe root of all the problems is the White House!\u201d said Hassan Rouhani on December 9, 2020. Abdolnaser Hemmati, head of Iran\u2019s Central Bank, also claimed on December 7 that U.S. sanctions do not permit the transfer of funds or the purchase of the vaccine through COVAX! Meanwhile, COVAX, the organization endorsed by the World Health Organization to distribute the vaccine, immediately responded that there was no \u201clegal barrier\u201d before Iran procuring vaccines through COVAX as the U.S. Treasury\u2019s Office on Foreign Assets Control had issued a license covering coronavirus vaccine procurement. Iran\u2019s state-controlled Aftab-e Yazd daily wrote on December 14: \u201cRegarding the coronavirus vaccine, officials have said that it is not possible to import foreign vaccines, but we are witnessing that vaccines have been imported from reliable countries and are being used by officials, along with their children and associates.\u201d It is thus clear that the problem lies not in sanctions, the US or bank transfers. In reality, importing vaccines from trusted international companies would eliminate the huge profit that could otherwise be made by pharmaceutical cartels that are essentially run by the Revolutionary Guards. Thus, Iranian regime officials are hyping up a so-called \u2018domestic vaccine\u2019 and are willing to pay its price with the lives of the Iranian people even if the mullahs\u2019 policies cause the death toll to climb beyond the 200,000 mark. Thus, it is crystal clear that bogus claims such as \u2018sanctions\u2019, \u2018US restrictions\u2019 and \u2018restrictions on wire transfers\u2019 are simply excuses to not import credible COVID-19 vaccines to vaccinate Iran\u2019s general public. They pave the path to sacrifice the Iranian people and crossing the 200,000 deaths threshold. All of this is so that the potential for profit by the Revolutionary Guards pharmaceutical mafia does not disappear. In reality, Khamenei and Rouhani do not want to provide a vaccine, unless they are forced to under pressure by the people. For ten months the regime benefitted from the coronavirus to delay an uprising. Now the mullahs\u2019 mafia are using its vaccine to make sure that the people\u2019s attention and energy is not diverted from the coronavirus. The exponential rise in the death toll, which has surpassed 200,000, indicates that this crisis will continue. If the regime genuinely wanted to control the virus, it would have supported the nation financially like other countries so that people would remain under quarantine without concerns over how to provide food for their families. All the facts and the last ten months of the coronavirus in Iran indicate that the mullahs\u2019 regime neither wants to nor can bring the virus under control. Since Khamenei\u2019s number one priority is preserving his regime, he will use the nation\u2019s resources on nothing other than their nuclear weapons initiatives, exporting terrorism, and funding his suppressive forces to counter any uprising. In one word, he seeks only to maintain his detested religious dictatorship intact. Therefore, the only solution for ridding Iran of the coronavirus is to rid Iran of the mullahs\u2019 regime. 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 #coronavirus #COVID-19 #vaccine\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:853px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The threat of another nationwide uprising has increased the regime\u2019s infightings. \u201cWhatever they [Rouhani\u2019s government officials] said was the opposite. They said the coronavirus is over. Then from where this fourth wave come from?\u201d said Ahmad Alam-ol Hoda, Mashhad\u2019s Friday prayer leader on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cThe National Covid-19 Combat Task Force refused to use [Persian New Year] holidays to control Covid-19 crisis,\u201d said Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi. While implicitly referring to Rouhani and Khamenei, he added, \u201cI cannot say their names.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Therefore Rouhani, on Sunday, warned, \u201cNot everyone should go and say whatever he wants on TV. This will not be in the interest of the system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In a nutshell, the regime\u2019s officials are worried about their grip on power. Today, people are concerned about the future of society and their lives because society is on the verge of great crises. If crises pile up and the rulers do not listen to the voices of the protesters, the continuation of such a phenomenon can end the patience of the people. If there is no change in Iran soon, the mental state of the society will soon become more dangerous,\u201d Jahan-e Sanat warned on March 15.<\/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>After two years of deception, the Iranian regime&rsquo;s President Hassan Rouhani acknowledged Iran is now experiencing the fourth wave of the Covid-19 outbreak. &ldquo;We have a hard period ahead of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":237775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[129,130,141,185,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-237774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-human-rights","8":"tag-iran","9":"tag-iran-protests","10":"tag-human-rights","11":"tag-coronavirus-pandemic","12":"tag-covid-19"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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