{"id":244237,"date":"2021-08-03T09:36:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=244237"},"modified":"2025-11-04T19:53:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:53:26","slug":"in-iran-the-covid-19-crisis-amplifies-due-to-regimes-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/in-iran-the-covid-19-crisis-amplifies-due-to-regimes-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"In Iran, the COVID-19 Crisis Amplifies Due to Regime\u2019s Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-241279\" title=\"COVID-19-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/COVID-19-1.jpg\" alt=\"COVID-19-1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/COVID-19-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/COVID-19-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/COVID-19-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/COVID-19-1-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/COVID-19-1-696x391.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On Sunday, the Iranian regime\u2019s Health Ministry announced that 366 people had died from Covid-19 during a 24-hour period \u2013 the highest one-day death toll in 80 days. This brought the overall official death toll very near to 91,000. But <a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/t\/iran-coronavirus-crisis1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran <a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/about-iranian-opposition-pmoi-mek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(PMOI\/MEK)<\/a>, the official statistics are manufactured as part of an effort to downplay the true severity of the crisis.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Through analysis of local reporting throughout the country, as well as interviews with health professionals and other eyewitnesses, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MEK<\/a> has determined that over 345,000 fatalities have been caused by Covid-19 in Iran since the start of the pandemic.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> Coronavirus Update<\/p>\n<p>More than 345,300 people have died of the novel <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#coronavirus<\/a> in 547 cities checkered across all of Iran&#39;s 31 provinces, according to the Iranian opposition PMOI\/MEK.<\/p>\n<p>Full Report<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qxbztXJyCd\">https:\/\/t.co\/qxbztXJyCd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VsncDFTzng\">pic.twitter.com\/VsncDFTzng<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; People&#39;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1422443169329782784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 3, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In recent days the regime officials have also acknowledged the depth of the Covid-19 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/coronavirus-in-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crisis<\/a> in Iran.\u00a0\u00a0One such official was quoted by the Arman-e Meli daily newspaper as saying that the country is facing growing death tolls and worsening medicine shortages, partly as a result of authorities having \u201crefused to strongly quarantine the country.\u201d He added: \u201cThe country is facing a dead-end and officials have lost control. In the coming weeks, we will be witnessing the start of the sixth peak.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In fact, the regime officials actively exacerbated the situation from a very early stage, and the current six-figure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/coronavirus-in-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Covid-19<\/a> death toll is the result of trends that were set in motion before any effective treatment for the novel coronavirus had been developed.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Documents obtained by the\u00a0MEK\u00a0indicate that Iran\u2019s National Emergency Organization was aware of community spread within the country even before the start of 2020. Yet it was not until mid-February of that year that the authorities officially acknowledged a domestic threat from the virus. In the interim, the\u00a0regime\u00a0organized\u00a0a number of\u00a0public gatherings and demonstrations including celebrations of the regime\u2019s 40-year anniversary and a funeral for the Quds Force commander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/who-was-the-vicious-criminal-qassem-soleimani\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Qassem Soleimani<\/a> who was killed by a US drone strike in January.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In most of these cases, participation was mandated for certain government employees and strongly incentivized for the general public, turning them into officially sanctioned super-spreader events at a time when few Iranians were aware of the looming public health crisis. This naturally gave the authorities additional motivation to conceal the consequences of those events, recognizing that widespread unrest might result from widespread awareness of the regime\u2019s culpability.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259,&quot;469777462&quot;:[5970],&quot;469777927&quot;:[0],&quot;469777928&quot;:[1]}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">But this is not to say that the regime sought to diminish that culpability afterward. Instead, in March 2020, while much of the world was coming aware of the seriousness of the emerging global pandemic,\u00a0the regime\u2019s\u00a0Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei welcomed the start of the Iranian calendar year by declaring that the county should prioritize the goal of \u201cboosting production\u201d throughout the economy. This set the stage for his regime to deny much-needed financial relief to the people, in the interest of encouraging them to continue working to alleviate their already life-threatening poverty.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259,&quot;469777462&quot;:[5970],&quot;469777927&quot;:[0],&quot;469777928&quot;:[1]}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Khamenei wields personal control over hundreds of billions of dollars in assets belonging to so-called religious foundations, and that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps controls\u00a0well over\u00a0half of Iran\u2019s gross domestic product through a network of front companies and affiliates in a wide range of industries.\u00a0Thus,\u00a0the regime had ample resources with which to support the public through the sorts of lockdowns that Health Ministry officials have urged, to no avail. Instead, Khamenei promoted \u201cboosting production\u201d as a means of inflating his own wealth and that of other Iranian elites, at the expense of the people\u2019s health, as well as their basic economic security.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259,&quot;469777462&quot;:[5970],&quot;469777927&quot;:[0],&quot;469777928&quot;:[1]}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This conduct has continued and has even worsened over the past year and a half. At times, Khamenei\u2019s policies even seemed\u00a0to be deliberately prolonging the public health crisis \u2013 a crisis that he referred to as a \u201cblessing\u201d in at least one speech to his subordinates.\u00a0Khamenei\u00a0has come to think of the pandemic as a tool for keeping a lid on unrest. And it is easy to see how he might have come to that conclusion, given that there was relatively little large-scale unrest after January 2020, even though protests in that month served as a follow-up to two nationwide uprisings, one in January 2018 and the other in November 2019.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259,&quot;469777462&quot;:[5970],&quot;469777927&quot;:[0],&quot;469777928&quot;:[1]}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">However, around the start of the current Iranian calendar year, the opposition leader Mrs. Maryam Rajavi pointed to clashes between security forces and citizens in Sistan and Baluchistan Province and declared that \u201cthe fire of the uprisings has risen from the ashes of the coronavirus.\u201d That message has been repeated on a number of subsequent occasions, as public protests have grown in various regions, over various topics. Tehran\u2019s mismanaged coronavirus response has surely contributed to that trend, and the latest calls for regime change lend credence to the notion that Khamenei has gone too far in his effort to stem the unrest and has helped to fuel it instead.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259,&quot;469777462&quot;:[5970],&quot;469777927&quot;:[0],&quot;469777928&quot;:[1]}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/2077cfe36d0d\/mvalhuta4du\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-219239\" title=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1\" 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<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Any number of developments might have been a tipping point, but Khamenei\u2019s indifference to public health was particularly blatant early this year when he banned the import of American and British-made vaccines and then placed the responsibility for distribution in the hands of the Revolutionary Guards, thereby allowing the hardline paramilitary to profit by selling doses on the black market for exorbitant prices.\u00a0The import ban resulted in the cancellation of planned efforts to donate vaccines to at least 100,000 vulnerable Iranians, and it is all but certain that some of their would-be recipients have since died as a result of the regime\u2019s malicious negligence.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259,&quot;469777462&quot;:[5970],&quot;469777927&quot;:[0],&quot;469777928&quot;:[1]}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This trend will certainly continue until either the Covid-19 pandemic is cured throughout the world or something dramatic changes in Tehran. If the regime comes under enough international pressure, it might be compelled to lift the import ban, release available funds, and promote the sorts of common-sense interventions that its own Health Ministry is calling for. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259,&quot;469777462&quot;:[5970],&quot;469777927&quot;:[0],&quot;469777928&quot;:[1]}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Yet, as the regime delays in procuring vaccines and as the Covid-19 crisis amplifies, regime officials and state media warn about people\u2019s reactions.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259,&quot;469777462&quot;:[5970],&quot;469777927&quot;:[0],&quot;469777928&quot;:[1]}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cIf at the beginning of this pandemic people accepted that their loved ones had died due to this disease and outside the will and function of [the regime], now they will not accept such a thing. People attribute the deaths of their loved ones to incorrect vaccination policies. Policies that emphasized domestic production and forgot about imports and even opposed it,\u201d said Abbas Abdi, one of the regime\u2019s former officials, according to the state-run\u00a0Etemad\u00a0daily on\u00a0August 1.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259,&quot;469777462&quot;:[5970],&quot;469777927&quot;:[0],&quot;469777928&quot;:[1]}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259,&quot;469777462&quot;:[5970],&quot;469777927&quot;:[0],&quot;469777928&quot;:[1]}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, the Iranian regime&rsquo;s Health Ministry announced that 366 people had died from Covid-19 during a 24-hour period &ndash; the highest one-day death toll in 80 days. 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