{"id":249346,"date":"2021-10-21T09:04:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T14:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=249346"},"modified":"2023-01-31T22:35:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T21:35:38","slug":"iran-covid-19-crisis-sixth-wave-looming-while-fifth-wave-is-worse-than-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/iran-covid-19-crisis-sixth-wave-looming-while-fifth-wave-is-worse-than-reported\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran COVID-19 Crisis: Sixth Wave Looming While Fifth Wave Is Worse Than Reported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Iran-covid-19-4\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-246002 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Iran-covid-19-4.jpg\" alt=\"Iran-covid-19-4\" width=\"1000\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Iran-covid-19-4.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Iran-covid-19-4-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Iran-covid-19-4-768x386.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Iran-covid-19-4-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Iran-covid-19-4-696x350.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Iran is expected to resume weekly public prayer gatherings on Friday, as regime authorities rush the resumption of normal activities while the country is still suffering through a \u201cfifth wave\u201d of coronavirus infections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The People\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/primer-the-history-the-peoples-mojahedin-organization-iran\" rel=\"noopener\">Mojahedin<\/a> Organization of Iran (MEK) has been continuously analyzing local reports, eyewitness statements, hospital and morgue records in order to draw alternate conclusions about the severity of the public health crisis. Throughout the fifth wave, the actual running death toll has been more than four times what the Health Ministry has reported to the public.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">While the regime\u2019s engineered death toll as of Wednesday was approximately 124,500, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\/\" rel=\"noopener\">MEK<\/a> announced that the total death toll is above 460,800. Tehran is trying to cover up a series of missteps in its response to the crisis while also trying to give the impression that it is taking the situation seriously enough to get ahead of it.<\/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 460,800 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\/T7Ij18nnyU\">https:\/\/t.co\/T7Ij18nnyU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/enzK7md878\">pic.twitter.com\/enzK7md878<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; People&#39;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1450907170350845953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 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\">The regime\u2019s missteps date back to the very earliest stages of the outbreak when the novel coronavirus was carried back to Iran on one of many flights that reflect its expanding relationship with China, where the virus originated. Documents produced by Iran\u2019s National Emergency Organization and obtained by the MEK indicate that the first suspected cases of Covid-19 in Iran were identified no later than mid-January. But regime authorities made no public mention of possible outbreaks until more than a month later, on the cusp of the regime\u2019s sham parliamentary <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/editorial\/parliamentary-elections-the-peak-of-the-iranian-regime-s-crises\/\" rel=\"noopener\">elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The timing of that announcement was chosen to provide a cover story for the historically low voter turnout in those elections, which was actually attributable to an organized boycott in the wake of recurring, large-scale anti-regime protests. Those protests made it all the more important for Tehran to refute evidence of a lack of popular support for the theocratic system. In the run-up to the sham elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">State-orchestrated public demonstrations created perfect conditions for the massive spread of coronavirus at a time when much of the public was being kept in the dark about its very existence. The problem was exacerbated by the fact that information is tightly controlled in Iran and has been growing more in recent years, especially following periods of large-scale unrest. This phenomenon was evident as news about viral outbreaks finally began to be reported inside the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In February, state <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-regimes-latest-covid-19-propaganda-involves-offloading-antibody-tests-to-europe\/\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> were already providing blatant under-estimates of the infection rates and death tolls \u2013 estimates that were sometimes contradicted by local officials in particularly hard-hit areas like Qom. Meanwhile, the judiciary explicitly warned that anyone found to be \u201cspreading propaganda\u201d by questioning those estimates would be subject to arrest and prosecution.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"People forced to bury coronavirus COVID-19 victims with their own hands in Gilan\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_gLrt5_AKffA\" 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%2FgLrt5_AKffA%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gLrt5_AKffA\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT34S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2020-03-08T19:50:22Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_gLrt5_AKffA\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FgLrt5_AKffA%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">People forced to bury coronavirus COVID-19 victims with their own hands in Gilan<\/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\/gLrt5_AKffA\" 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%2FgLrt5_AKffA%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"People forced to bury coronavirus COVID-19 victims with their own hands in Gilan\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/t\/iran-coronavirus-crisis1 #coronavirus #Iran #Irannews March 2020\u2014While the Iranian regime cover-ups the real number of victims of the coronavirus outbreak in Iran, people of Gilan should bury their loved ones (passed away due to the coronavirus) with their own hands. The Iranian government cannot manage to bury all victims of the Iran coronavirus crisis.\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:853px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Despite these early restrictions, alternate estimates by the Iranian Resistance have been steadily seeping into Iranian society, thanks in large part to social media and the prevalence of virtual private networks that allow many Iranians to evade government filtering of the internet. This trend will most likely fuel public expectations of a more serious sixth wave than what Iran\u2019s Health Ministry is predicting. The regime would certainly not take any action to help people, as its official strategy is using this deadly virus to control Iran\u2019s restive society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Already, public skepticism of official narratives has apparently led to the regime scrapping its plans for widespread distribution of a domestically made but untested version of the Covid-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei imposed a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/srs\/in-the-service-of-iran-regimes-corona-ayatollahs\/\" rel=\"noopener\">ban<\/a> on European and American-made vaccines in January. That ban caused the deterioration of Iran\u2019s coronavirus situation over the past year. Khamenei\u2019s decision indicated that the severity of the crisis stems not only from simple incompetence but from a deliberate effort to use coronavirus outbreaks as a means of preventing large-scale anti-government protests like those that were active in the months immediately preceding the start of the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran is expected to resume weekly public prayer gatherings on Friday, as regime authorities rush the resumption of normal activities while the country is still suffering through a &ldquo;fifth wave&rdquo; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":246002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[129,141,184],"class_list":{"0":"post-249346","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"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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