{"id":248778,"date":"2021-10-11T01:41:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T06:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=248778"},"modified":"2023-01-31T08:11:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T07:11:03","slug":"iran-regimes-inhuman-covid-19-policy-foretells-the-worst-wave-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/iran-regimes-inhuman-covid-19-policy-foretells-the-worst-wave-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Regime’s Inhuman COVID-19 Policy Foretells the Worst Wave Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week, the Iranian regime\u2019s engineered death toll from Covid-19 has exceeded 122,000. The Iranian regime authorities are chronically under-reporting the mortality rates and downplaying a public health crisis that has been out of control since the beginning. According to the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran<\/a> (PMOI\/MEK), the actual death toll is over 450,000, nearly four times the official figure.<\/p>\n

The MEK\u2019s overall estimates are accompanied by specific estimates from various individual localities, reflecting the methodology used by the MEK\u2019s<\/a> network. That network has collected both publicly available reports and leaked documentation from medical facilities, morgues, and municipal government agencies all across the country. It has also highlighted eyewitness statements, particularly from medical professionals, to indicate that the health system is overwhelmed to a degree that does not align with the regime\u2019s official statements.<\/p>\n

The veracity of those official statements was widely called into question in the earliest days of the pandemic<\/a>. By the time the regime acknowledged there had been even one case of coronavirus infection in Iran, some localities were already in a very dire situation. This resulted in a distinct mismatch between the statements of regime officials. In the city of Qom, morgues were reported to already be full before the end of February 2020, at which time the Iranian regime president and his Health Ministry insisted the nationwide death toll was still in the single digits.<\/p>\n

Hassan Rouhani, later boasted that the regime \u201cdid not delay one day\u201d in announcing the presence of the coronavirus once it was detected in the Iranian population. The claim was immediately dubious and was later proven false by the Iranian Resistance when it obtained documents from the National Emergency Organization which showed that the first cases had been identified at least a month before the first public statements.<\/p>\n

Those statements might have been delayed even longer if not for the fact that evidence pointed to the likelihood of a large-scale boycott of the February 2020 sham parliamentary elections. This nationwide boycott happened despite the regime denied the Covid-19 existence.<\/p>\n

Prior to the sham election, though, Tehran had denied the presence of Covid-19<\/a> for the sake of similar propaganda. In January and early February, the regime-held events to mark the 40th anniversary of its rise to power, and then commemorate the regime\u2019s top terrorist operative, Qassem Soleimani<\/a>, who had just been killed in a US drone strike. As with prior anniversary celebrations, attendance was mandatory for some government employees and was facilitated among other sectors of Iranian society through a campaign of mass marketing and material incentives.<\/p>\n

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