{"id":247741,"date":"2021-09-25T05:11:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T10:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=247741"},"modified":"2023-02-13T22:10:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T21:10:27","slug":"a-glance-at-irans-state-media-amplifying-covid-19-and-economic-crises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/a-glance-at-irans-state-media-amplifying-covid-19-and-economic-crises\/","title":{"rendered":"Glance at Iran\u2019s State Media: Amplifying COVID-19 and Economic Crises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-237578\" title=\"iran-state-run-media-admit-to-regimes-inhumane-covid-19-policy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/iran-state-run-media-admit-to-regimes-inhumane-covid-19-policy.jpg\" alt=\"iran-state-run-media-admit-to-regimes-inhumane-covid-19-policy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"639\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran\u2019s state-run media on Thursday once again acknowledged part of Iran\u2019s crises. They mainly acknowledged the severity of Iran\u2019s Covid-19 and economic crises.\u00a0\u201cWe witnessed our huge difference with other countries in terms of controlling the novel coronavirus,\u201d wrote the state-run Jahan-e Sanat daily on September 23.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe ominous Covid-19 entered towards the end of 2019 and continued throughout 2020 and 2021. It showed after decades our governing and management of a crisis in the country to the showcase of competition with other countries,\u201d Jahan-e Sanat adds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The regime did not fail in managing the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/de\/news\/glance-and-iran-state-media-worsening-covid-19-crisis\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Covid-19 crisis<\/a>. It deliberately used the virus and its mass casualties as a barrier against the popular protests which broke out in 2018 and continued throughout 2019.\u00a0The regime\u2019s deliberate inaction and refusal to purchase vaccines has now increased people\u2019s hatred.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cUnprecedented death toll over the past two months and a collapsing healthcare system have led people to point the finger at the authorities\u2019 delay in advancing the vaccination program. The magnitude of the crisis was such that some doctors did not fear criticizing the performance of the Ministry of Health,\u201d Jahan-e Sanat wrote in this regard.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran: Regime&rsquo;s role in escalating numbers of Covid-19 deaths is fueling public anger\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_Jqx_WLmZIp0\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FJqx_WLmZIp0%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jqx_WLmZIp0\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT2M19S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-08-25T16:28:42Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_Jqx_WLmZIp0\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FJqx_WLmZIp0%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran: Regime\u2019s role in escalating numbers of Covid-19 deaths is fueling public anger<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Jqx_WLmZIp0\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FJqx_WLmZIp0%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran: Regime&rsquo;s role in escalating numbers of Covid-19 deaths is fueling public anger\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"August 2021\u2014The rising number of coronavirus casualties is exposing the criminal policies of Iran\u2019s regime More than 370,000 Iranian have so far perished since the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak in Iran. Before the emergence of the Delta variant, Covid-19 had provided an opportunity and blessing for Iranian regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei to temporarily delay the brewing storm of nationwide popular protests. Khamenei described coronavirus as a \u201cblessing.\u201d During this period, any social issue can quickly evolve into a political crisis for the regime, and the situation on the ground can significantly threaten the regime. The coronavirus, used by the regime to kill the Iranian people, is now becoming the very cause of escalating social unrest. In January 2021, Khamenei banned the import of WHO-approved Covid-19 vaccines. Now for the first time since the pandemic started, Iran is witnessing over 2,000 deaths per day. The ruling mullahs fear the powder-keg society and people\u2019s anger fear mullahs ruling Iran. The mullahs are trying to deal with the people\u2019s anger through sheer lies. On August 12, 2021, Alireza Zali, head of the National Coronavirus Combat Taskforce in Tehran confessed that the regime \u201cconcealed the COVID-19 death toll from WHO; and returned international aid and M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res from the airport,\u201d according to the state-run Jahan-e-Sana\u2019t daily today. \u201cThe officials lied to WHO, resulting in the death of more than 95,000 Iranians. This is a very serious issue \u2026.\u201d Analysts believe that the coronavirus crisis in Iran can spark another uprising in Iran that will lead to the overthrow of the regime. *** Content on the PMOI\/MEK&#039;s official YouTube channel is not subject to copyright if the source is mentioned ***\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:853px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cUnlike the authorities, most people blame corruption and economic mismanagement for the low and deplorable vaccination rates,\u201d Jahan-e Sanat acknowledged people do not buy the regime officials\u2019 claims of sanctions hindering taking appropriate actions against the Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The regime\u2019s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, banned vaccines in January 2021. He also insisted on producing the so-called domestic \u201cvaccines.\u201d The domestic vaccine was produced by the Execution of Imam Khomeini\u2019s Order (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/iran-raisi-appoints-head-of-the-plundering-cartel-eiko-as-1st-vice-president-and-a-henchman-as-his-chief-of-staff\/\" rel=\"noopener\">EIKO<\/a>), a huge financial institution Khamenei controls. Now state rune media acknowledge a part of Khamenei\u2019s scheme to further plunder people by insisting on producing the domestic vaccines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cTwo weeks ago, Ali Tajernia told Sharq daily: \u2018It seems that Barakat had presold its vaccine. It seems that the reason for not wanting to buy the vaccine from western countries was that Barakat had received 200,000 Tomans for each dose of the vaccine. If we multiply this by 120 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/irans-covid-19-outbreak-and-regimes-vaccination-hoax\/\" rel=\"noopener\">million vaccines<\/a>, Barkat took over $ 1 billion from the government funds,\u2019\u201d the state-run Mardom Salarie daily wrote on Thursday.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Covid-19 Crisis and Economy<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Covid-19 crisis also amplified people\u2019s economic problems. \u201cNo one knows how many people have died due to the novel coronavirus. Ho many people were forced to forgo treatments when they saw the 700-800 thousand tomans cost of Remdesivir or the high prices one night at the hospital. Some people abstain from purchasing lemon, ginger, and carrot, under the pressure of the unbridled inflation,\u201d wrote the state-run Sepid on September 23.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cNo one knows what happened during the consent <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/women.ncr-iran.org\/2021\/09\/23\/reopening-of-schools-in-iran-on-the-verge-of-the-sixth-coronavirus-wave\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Covid-19 peaks<\/a> in slums in marginalized areas and suburbs. Official and unofficial statistics indicate a large population is marginalized. Statistics put the number of slum dwellers at between 11 and 25 million and even more, with an estimated 7,600,000 living on the outskirts of cemeteries. Cemeteries that devoured corpses incessantly during the dark days of the coronavirus outbreak,\u201d Sepid adds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sepid daily then reminds what Morteza Bakhtiari, head of the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee (another plundering institution), said in August that \u201cour study shows that from 2000 to 2019, the living cost of Iranian households increased 22 times and the rise in inflation was the main cause of poverty growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran&rsquo;s minimum wage policy is a dagger in workers&rsquo; backs\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_CMgX91M6I3s\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FCMgX91M6I3s%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CMgX91M6I3s\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT7M30S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-04-03T06:58:04Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_CMgX91M6I3s\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FCMgX91M6I3s%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran\u2019s minimum wage policy is a dagger in workers\u2019 backs<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/CMgX91M6I3s\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FCMgX91M6I3s%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran&rsquo;s minimum wage policy is a dagger in workers&rsquo; backs\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"April 2021\u2014On Sunday, March 14, Iranian regime labor minister Mohammad Shariatmadar declared that the minimum wage for workers for the coming Persian calendar year (starting on March 20) is 26.55 million rials (&#36;110), which in comparison to the current year, has increased by 39 percent. But can Iranian workers make a decent living from this salary? On April 20, 2020, the secretary of work relations in the Labor Ministry Esmaeil Zarifi Azad said, \u201cIn the past 40 years, the salaries of workers have increased by a factor of 900, while the price of gasoline has increased 3,000-fold, bread has become 3,000 times more expensive, the prices of vehicles has increased by a factor of 3,000, the price of housing 6,000, and the prices of coins 10,000.\u201d According to various sources, rampant inflation and skyrocketing prices have pushed the poverty line in Iran above 100 million rials per month, which means workers are at best earning barely a fourth of what they need to make a decent living. But how is the minimum wage declared in Iran? According to article 41 of Iran\u2019s labor law, the minimum salary of workers in different parts of the country and different industries must be adjusted based on the inflation rate declared by the Central Bank and must be enough to provide the needs of a family. But the regime cheats on its own law to put up a fa\u00e7ade of conformance with the standards of the International Labor Organization. For instance, the United Nations determines families as having four members, but the regime has reduced the size of families to 2-3 members to reduce minimum wages. The labor law also states that the minimum wage of workers must be determined by the \u201cSupreme Council of Labor.\u201d This council apparently has three sides: the representative of the government, employers, and workers. But in practice, this council serves the government\u2019s needs. What this proves is that the Labor Council is just a show. So who determines the minimum wage? Currently, a large part of Iran\u2019s economy is in the clutches of regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei and the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC). An example is the IRGC\u2019s Khatam al-Anbiya Construction garrison, which according to its former commander \u201ccontrols 35 percent of gasoline, 20 percent of natural gas, 22 percent of diesel fuel, 32 percent of oil and gas pipelines, and 50 percent of the country\u2019s dams. Khatam employs about 5,000 advisory and construction contractors and has a 200,000-strong workforce. This shows that in reality, Khamenei\u2019s office and the IRGC play the principal role in determining the minimum wage of workers. For instance, in November 2015, about four months before the minimum wage for the 2016 was declared, Javan Online, a news website run by the IRGC, predicted that the minimum wage will be 8.3 million rials. Interestingly, the labor minister declared that exact figure later on. Now let\u2019s compare salaries in Iran with other countries Based on the current exchange rate, the monthly salary of Iranian workers is &#36;106. The minimum monthly salary is &#36;423 in Turkey, &#36;312 in the Republic of Azerbaijan, &#36;749 in Jordan, and &#36;526 in Turkmenistan. This means the salary of Iranian workers is less than a seventh of that of Jordanian workers. This brutal exploitation of the worker class has caused such an economic divide in Iran that on the one hand, employed workers can\u2019t even feed their families while the ruling elite are earning stellar income and don\u2019t know how to spend their money. This is why, according to the Mostaghel newspaper, \u201cIn Tehran, there are 14,000 people making their living from collecting garbage, 4,600 of whom are children. There are half-a-million labor children. If they don\u2019t work, their lives will be faced with very deep crises.\u201d On April 12, 2020, Arman Daily reported that 32 million of Iran\u2019s 85-million-strong population are living in city slums. \u201cIn Tehran, the population of city slums has increased to 11 million\u2026 The density of the impoverished and slum dwellers across the country is a social timebomb that can explode any time and cause social unrest.\u201d What are the prospects for the Iranian society? Given the inflation and skyrocketing prices caused by government corruption, in the next few months, the minimum wage will probably further drop to a fifth of the poverty line. At such a point, the entire society is in crisis mode. The first spark will turn the outrage of the people into an uncontainable explosion, and will turn the coming year into one of uprising, nationwide protests, and the overthrow of the mullahs\u2019 dictatorship. ------------------------------ Music: I Am a Man Who Will Fight for Your Honor by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/ Source: http:\/\/chriszabriskie.com\/honor\/ Artist: http:\/\/chriszabriskie.com\/\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:853px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cDuring this period, about 33% of Iran\u2019s population went below the multidimensional <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/women.ncr-iran.org\/2020\/10\/16\/absolute-poverty\/\" rel=\"noopener\">poverty line<\/a>, and while the population below the absolute poverty line had reached 15% from 2013 to 2015, from 2015 to 2020, this ratio has reached more than 30%. Most of the poor population are in the country\u2019s villages. About 15.5 percent of urban residents live below the absolute poverty line, almost a third of Iran\u2019s rural population struggles with absolute poverty,\u201d Sepid wrote further quoting Bakhtiary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ongoing Covid-19 and economic crisis have increased the society\u2019s restiveness, prompting state-run media in recent days to warn officials about another popular uprising.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf the negative consequences from impractical and inefficient decisions continue. In that case, the efficiency and legitimacy of the political system may be challenged,\u201d Aftab-e Yazd daily warned officials on September 15.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-246866 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\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1.png 250w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1-150x50.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&rsquo;s state-run media on Thursday once again acknowledged part of Iran&rsquo;s crises. They mainly acknowledged the severity of Iran&rsquo;s Covid-19 and economic crises.&nbsp;&ldquo;We witnessed our huge difference with other countries [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":237578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,10,15],"tags":[129,184,229],"class_list":{"0":"post-247741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-economy","9":"category-human-rights","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-coronavirus-outbreak-in-iran","12":"tag-irans-economy"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Glance at Iran\u2019s State Media: Amplifying COVID-19 and Economic Crises - NCRI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Iran\u2019s state-run media on Thursday once again acknowledged part of Iran\u2019s crises. 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