Analysis by PMOI/MEK
Iran, August 13, 2021—In an unannounced televised speech Iranian regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei, acknowledged the Covid-19 outbreak has become a "savage disease" that "has become the first issue before the state today" and is an "urgent matter." However, on January 3, 2020, he said Covid-19 should not "exaggerated," adding "this issue will disappear" and called it "an achievement"!
It is clear that in the winter of 2020, when Khamenei had just witnessed Iran’s November 2019 protests and had subsequently experienced the December 2019 uprising, the Covid-19 outbreak was a blessing, an opportunity and an achievement for him. As a result, he attempted to downplay Covid-19 to prepare the grounds for the spread of the virus among the Iranian people. When the world began to develop vaccines, Khamenei officially banned the import of credible vaccines in order to leave the Iranian people defenseless and unprotected.
But from January 2020 onward, the Iranian people took to the streets yet agin, protests and social strikes of different walks of life began, expanding and deepening, reaching its peak in July and August 2021 with protest erupting in Khuzestan province and spreading to Lorestan, Tabriz and Tehran.
However, there are still no signs that Khamenei intends to abandon his ally Covid-19 in the war against the Iranian people. Despite all the advice from specialists and doctors, and despite last year’s terrible experience, Khamenei is still emphasizing on holding Muharram ceremonies at the peak of the virus. Moharram is the first month of the Islamic calendar. It is one of the four sacred months of the year when warfare is forbidden. It is held to be the second holiest month after Ramadan.
"We need these ceremonies; it should be held," he said. These words show that despite Khamenei's fear of the social consequences of Covid-19, he is so terrified of the uprising and the explosive conditions of society that he still intends to fight people using the virus fearing people’s uprising.
"They took my husband away from me because they didn't let us get coronavirus vaccines," says this grieving widow.#Iran #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/BzlSJ2J3zH
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) August 12, 2021
The same policy has brought the situation to its current catastrophic stage, be it through not quarantining or not vaccinating the general public, or by creating a black market for drugs and vaccines.
Even regime experts call it a "massacre" and "mass murder," acknowledging in the regime’s Majlis (parliament) that "the situation is very, very bad.” State-run media say that the true deaths toll is "1,500 or more per day," according to a Wednesday report by the E’temad daily.
Mashhad, northwest #Iran
"The number of the dead cannot be counted today," says a correspondent of the regime's IRIB news network.#COVID19 is out of control across the country due to the regime's disastrous policies and banning credible vaccines.pic.twitter.com/7NDTIOwIJs— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) August 12, 2021
Remarks made recently by Alireza Zali, the head of Tehran Covid-19 task force, quite interesting to say the least.
"We spent 720 million euros on Remdesivir. We should have spent that money on vaccines. How can we buy oil equipment three times the price while we are sanctioned, but we do not do this when we need vaccines?" he said in an interview with the regime’s official IRIB news agency on Wednesday.
"The cost of Covid-19 drugs has increased many times more than importing vaccines. However, they did not allow vaccine purchases because they thought it was expensive,” Zali added.
"When World Health Organization experts came to Iran, instead of consulting with them, we constantly asked them to praise the Iranian health system in the media. We hid the death toll from the WHO," he continued.
This confession shows that the regime never cares about saving the Iranian people’ lives.
Thus, according to Zali’s remarks, the number 568 deaths announced by the regime's Ministry of Health for Thursday could be much higher.
Shahriar, southwest of #Iran
Milad Hospital
Voice explains the dire situation of #COVID patients and how they are forced to wait 3-4 in line to receive medical attention.pic.twitter.com/jJRq7GhU47— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) August 5, 2021
In this regard, Abbas Abdi from the reformist faction said this in an article published Tuesday: "The actual number of Covid deaths per day should be close to 1,500 and maybe more."
When dictators kill people, suppress them, and seemingly have complete control over the situation, rest assured they will reap what they sow.
