{"id":245482,"date":"2021-08-22T10:07:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T15:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=245482"},"modified":"2023-01-29T09:00:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T08:00:15","slug":"iran-covid-19-crisis-effects-of-khameneis-ban-on-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/iran-covid-19-crisis-effects-of-khameneis-ban-on-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran COVID-19 Crisis: Effects of Khamenei\u2019s Ban on Vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"iranian-regime-supreme-leader-ali-khamenei-banned-the-purchase-of-covid-19-vaccines-from-us-and-uk-in-january-1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-238403 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iranian-regime-supreme-leader-ali-khamenei-banned-the-purchase-of-covid-19-vaccines-from-us-and-uk-in-january-1.jpg\" alt=\"iranian-regime-supreme-leader-ali-khamenei-banned-the-purchase-of-covid-19-vaccines-from-us-and-uk-in-january\" width=\"1003\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iranian-regime-supreme-leader-ali-khamenei-banned-the-purchase-of-covid-19-vaccines-from-us-and-uk-in-january-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iranian-regime-supreme-leader-ali-khamenei-banned-the-purchase-of-covid-19-vaccines-from-us-and-uk-in-january-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iranian-regime-supreme-leader-ali-khamenei-banned-the-purchase-of-covid-19-vaccines-from-us-and-uk-in-january-1-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iranian-regime-supreme-leader-ali-khamenei-banned-the-purchase-of-covid-19-vaccines-from-us-and-uk-in-january-1-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iranian-regime-supreme-leader-ali-khamenei-banned-the-purchase-of-covid-19-vaccines-from-us-and-uk-in-january-1-696x392.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1003px) 100vw, 1003px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/about-iranian-opposition-pmoi-mek\" rel=\"noopener\">(PMOI\/MEK)<\/a> announced that Iran\u2019s Covid-19\u00a0death toll surpassed 370,000 this week, with daily mortality exceeding 2,000 cases.\u00a0The Covid-19 death toll continues to rise rapidly since the\u00a0regime rejected\u00a0all proposals for long-term mitigation efforts and had embraced a strategy of promoting natural immunity through mass death.<\/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\u00a0Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei\u00a0has been\u00a0adopting\u00a0this inhumane Covid-19\u00a0strategy based on the dual motives of safeguarding his own hoard of the national wealth and forestalling mass public demonstrations like those which rocked the\u00a0regime\u00a0in January 2018 and November 2019.<\/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<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 376,400 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\/ye6R9Sfky6\">https:\/\/t.co\/ye6R9Sfky6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H618tx1XTF\">pic.twitter.com\/H618tx1XTF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; People&#39;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1429178201696182274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 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\">During the major Iran protests in November 2019, the regime\u2019s security\u00a0forces\u00a0and the Revolutionary Guards (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/inside-irans-army-of-terror-and-oppression-revolutionary-guards-irgc-part-2\/\" rel=\"noopener\">IRGC<\/a>)\u00a0opened fire on crowds of protesters, killing\u00a0over\u00a01,500 in a matter of days. The judiciary, under now-President <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/who-is-ebrahim-raisi-ncr-iran\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Ebrahim Raisi<\/a>, undertook a campaign of systematic torture in the wake of those killings. And yet in January 2020,\u00a0thousands of Iranians took to the streets again across more than a dozen provinces to condemn the IRGC for a missile strike on a commercial airliner and to reiterate the prior uprisings\u2019 calls for regime change.<\/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\">Given that this resurgence of unrest took place while the crackdown on the<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-protests-2019-update\/\" rel=\"noopener\"> November 2019<\/a> uprising was still ongoing,\u00a0the\u00a0large-scale protests might have continued long afterward if not for the added risk to public health created by the coronavirus pandemic.\u00a0This decline was the result of the regime\u2019s inhumane policies with\u00a0Khamenei\u00a0referring to the deadly virus as a\u00a0\u201cblessing.\u201d<\/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 the wake of that speech, Khamenei delayed the requested release of one billion dollars from the nation\u2019s sovereign wealth fund. Meanwhile, hundreds of billions of dollars remained untouched in so-called religious foundations under Khamenei\u2019s direct\u00a0control or\u00a0earmarked for pet projects such as the financing of regional militant groups that have expressed loyalty to\u00a0the regime. In March 2020, Khamenei also declared that the newly-begun Iranian calendar year should be devoted to \u201cboosting production,\u201d thereby signaling his expectation that Iranians should continue to work as normal in spite of the growing risk of the coronavirus spreading uncontrolled.<\/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\u00a0condemnation of Tehran\u2019s coronavirus response has gradually moved into the mainstream over the past year, and this trend was seemingly bolstered by Raisi\u2019s presidential inauguration on August 5, which signaled an imminent change in personnel at all government ministries, including the Health Ministry.<\/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\">Earlier this month, the head of Tehran\u2019s Covid-19 response committee, Dr. Alireza Zali, issued rare criticism of the ruling system, including tacit criticism of the supreme leader, via interviews with state media. He said, for instance, that it was primarily concerned over cost which led authorities to avoid importing foreign vaccines, leaving the country drastically short of its targets for distribution. To date, less than four percent of the 83-million person population has been fully vaccinated, and a significant proportion of this number represents members of a tiny elite who have obtained doses at extortionate prices on the black market.<\/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\" title=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-300x100\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-219239 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-300x100.png\" alt=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-300x100\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Shortly before the regime\u2019s engineered Covid-19 death toll surpassed 100,000, the regime announced that it would soon be purchasing 30 million additional doses. The plans presumably involve the de facto reversal of an edict from the supreme leader which banned the import of all vaccines from \u201cenemy\u201d states like the US and Britain. The regime\u2019s to following through on its promise or making purchases from other countries is doubted. Some see the 30 million dose projection as little more than another attempt at tamping down public unrest, which diminished in the wake of the nationwide uprisings but is poised to surge again, with Tehran\u2019s mismanagement of the pandemic as another source of far-reaching grievances.<\/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 July,\u00a0the Iranian opposition\u2019s\u00a0President <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/maryam-rajavi\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryam Rajavi<\/a> spoke before a virtual summit on Iranian affairs and declared that the era coinciding with Raisi\u2019s presidential leadership would be an era of dramatically increased conflict \u201cbetween the Iranian regime and society.\u201d In subsequent weeks, evidence supporting that prediction emerged in the form of new, large-scale demonstrations over issues like summertime blackouts and water shortages.<\/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 many of these cases, the demonstrations included explicit calls for regime change which were distinctly reminiscent of the 2018 and 2019 uprisings. Now, the further\u00a0increases in the death toll will surely contribute to public outrage over the regime\u2019s callousness and\/or incompetence.<\/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\">Thus, Khamenei\u2019s regime increasingly finds itself stuck between the impossible choice of either exacerbating the crisis and thus contributing to public outrage or working to mitigate the crisis and thus allowing the existing outrage to find an outlet sooner.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The People&rsquo;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) announced that Iran&rsquo;s Covid-19&nbsp;death toll surpassed 370,000 this week, with daily mortality exceeding 2,000 cases.&nbsp;The Covid-19 death toll continues to rise rapidly since [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":238403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[129,141,184,186,197,198],"class_list":{"0":"post-245482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-human-rights","8":"tag-iran","9":"tag-human-rights","10":"tag-coronavirus-outbreak-in-iran","11":"tag-coronavirus","12":"tag-mek-iran","13":"tag-ncri"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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