{"id":238423,"date":"2021-04-22T04:32:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T09:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=238423"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:58:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:58:12","slug":"greed-and-fear-of-unrest-mean-irans-regime-cant-be-trusted-with-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/greed-and-fear-of-unrest-mean-irans-regime-cant-be-trusted-with-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"Greed and Fear of Unrest Mean Iran\u2019s Regime Can\u2019t Be Trusted With Vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If vaccine distribution in Iran is to have any hope of being conducted in a way that is efficient, equitable, and effective, it will need to be placed in the hands of international experts. The Iranian regime is inherently self-serving and bears most of the responsibility for the severity of the country\u2019s coronavirus outbreaks. It strains credulity to imagine government authorities suddenly helping to solve the crisis they helped create now that vaccines are available.<\/p>\n

The situation is made immeasurably worse by the fact that vaccine availability has deliberately been held down in Iran by edicts from the regimes\u2019 Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. At the start of this year, he halted the planned<\/a> distribution of 100,000 vaccines when he announced that doses manufactured in the United States or Europe would be barred from import.<\/p>\n

The first goal will no doubt seem alien to those who expect national governments to take at least a passing interest in the lives of their people. Tehran\u2019s policies and practices are motivated solely by the preservation of power for clerical authorities, and he has been uniquely apparent in the wake of multiple nationwide uprisings, two of which occurred only months before the onset of the global pandemic.<\/p>\n

Khamenei once confessed that if forced to choose between maintaining the ruling system and safeguarding its theocratic principles, he would sooner violate Islam. This is to say, he and his fellow mullahs would sacrifice absolutely anything in defense of their own power. So it should not be difficult to imagine that they openly kill hundreds of Iranians as they did during the uprising of November 2019<\/a>, or that they would allow the deaths of thousands amidst circumstances like the pandemic.<\/p>\n

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