{"id":244996,"date":"2021-08-15T09:28:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T14:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=244996"},"modified":"2023-02-07T23:37:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T22:37:44","slug":"iran-covid-19-crisis-mullahs-desperate-struggles-to-avoid-an-uprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/iran-covid-19-crisis-mullahs-desperate-struggles-to-avoid-an-uprising\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran COVID-19 Crisis: Mullahs\u2019 Desperate Struggles To Avoid an Uprising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"ncri-2021-covid-19\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ncri-2021-covid-19.jpg\" alt=\"ncri-2021-covid-19\" width=\"1000\" height=\"622\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Iran\u2019s Covid-19 death toll rapidly <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/iran-coronavirus-news-362400-deaths-20210814\" rel=\"noopener\">rises<\/a>. Even the regime\u2019s engineered coronavirus numbers indicate the depth of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/coronavirus-in-iran\/\" rel=\"noopener\">crisis<\/a>. \u201cAll offices, banks, and businesses will be closed from Monday until next Saturday,\u201d said the spokesperson of the regime\u2019s Covid-19 Combat Task Force.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The regime\u2019s new president, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/who-is-ebrahim-raisi-ncr-iran\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Ebrahim Raisi,<\/a> announced on Saturday that the import of 30 million doses of vaccine had been approved. \u201cBut experts believe that to control the current undesirable Covid-19 situation, we should procure 60 million doses of vaccine,\u201d Raisi added.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&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\">&quot;They took my husband away from me because they didn&#39;t let us get coronavirus vaccines,&quot; says this grieving widow.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BzlSJ2J3zH\">pic.twitter.com\/BzlSJ2J3zH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; People&#39;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1425887306951663626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 12, 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\">But what has happened in the last few days that regime authorities, who have been implementing an inhumane Covid-19 policy directed by their Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, to promptly speak of people\u2019s safety?\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Khamenei banned the entry of credible Covid-19 vaccines in January 2021. In March 2020, he said, \u201cWe shouldn\u2019t make this coronavirus such a big issue.\u201d The regime authorities followed Khamenei\u2019s lead in downplaying the crisis and speaking against vaccination.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What has prompted Khamenei to suddenly appear on TV on August 11 and calling the Covid-19 a \u201csavage virus\u201d and that it should be the regime\u2019s \u201cpriority\u201d? It wasn\u2019t Khamenei who called this deadly virus a test and a blessing.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Following the major Iran protests in November 2019, which rattled the regime\u2019s foundation, Khamenei was desperately awaiting a savior to protect his regime from people\u2019s uprisings. That savior was the coronavirus outbreak, which the regime turned into a major humanitarian crisis by deception and inaction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">With the spread of the new Covid-19 Delta variant and its tsunami of deaths, the situation is out of Khamenei\u2019s hands. This situation is what Raisi on Saturday described as the \u201cundesirable situation,\u201d and Khamenei warned about the \u201cupsurge\u201d of the virus.\u00a0 Indeed, Khamenei and Raisi are not concerned by the deadly effects of the virus on Iran\u2019s society, and the Covid-19 is still their ally.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">They are afraid of people\u2019s backlash. Videos circulating on social media show a young woman grieving for her husband, saying: \u201cKhamenei burn in hell. You took my dearest from me. I will take revenge.\u201d The Iranian people\u2019s hatred increases parallel with the death and infection rate.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">When protests erupted in Khuzestan province and soon spread across dozen cities, with people chanting \u201cdeath to the dictator,\u201d Khamenei and his regime officials understood they could no longer use the Covid-19 outbreak to quell the society.\u00a0 Raisi saw people\u2019s hatred once he visited a pharmacy, and one person shouted at him that \u201cwhy teenagers in the United States are being vaccinated, but there is no vaccine in Iran.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Covid-19 outbreak is added to other economic and social crises and could spark protests and lead to the explosion of Iran\u2019s restive society. This inevitable outcome has threatened the regime authorities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In other words, Khamenei sows the wind, and he will reap the whirlwind.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ncr-iran.us4.list-manage.com\/subscribe\/post?u=90c3ad44f96a18fb1fe0cf2e6&amp;id=b561586c73\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-219239 aligncenter\" 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&rsquo;s Covid-19 death toll rapidly rises. 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