{"id":245343,"date":"2021-08-22T05:28:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T10:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=245343"},"modified":"2025-11-04T19:53:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:53:19","slug":"irans-covid-19-crisis-grew-much-worse-following-khameneis-vaccine-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/irans-covid-19-crisis-grew-much-worse-following-khameneis-vaccine-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Covid-19 Crisis Grew Much Worse Following Khamenei\u2019s Vaccine Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Iran-Covid-19-NCRI-Crisis\"<\/p>\n

According to analysis from the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran<\/a>, MEK<\/a> more than 2,000 Iranians died from Covid-19 on Tuesday alone. As of Friday, the MEK reported that over 374,300 Iranians have died as a result of coronavirus infection since the beginning of the pandemic. This is more than three and a half times the regime\u2019s engineered death toll, although even Health Ministry officials and some state media outlets have recently begun casting doubt on official statistics.<\/p>\n

These unprecedented internal challenges to the regime\u2019s narratives are no doubt the result of mounting public outrage over the effects of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei\u2019s ban on foreign-made vaccines. Alireza Zali, the head of Tehran\u2019s Covid-19<\/a> response committee, recently acknowledged that enforcement of these bans was motivated largely by concerns over cost, and not by the safety concerns that were cited by Khamenei\u2019s office and his supporters.<\/p>\n

However, the real motive<\/a> for Khamenei to ban vaccines was his intention to use the Covid-19 outbreak to quell Iran\u2019s restive society.<\/p>\n

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A look back at the contradictory remarks made by Ali Khamenei and Hassan Rouhani over Covid19<\/div><\/div>
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