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Iran coronavirus update: Over 34,700 dead, officials question regime’s COVID-19 stats

Reporting by PMOI/MEK   

Iran, April 24, 2020—Over 34,700 people have died of the novel coronavirus in 297 cities checkered across all of Iran’s 31 provinces, according to reports tallied by the Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) as of Friday afternoon local time, April 24. The official death count declared by the regime is 5,574, less than a sixth of the actual figure.

Reports indicate the number of COVID-19 victims in Sistan & Baluchistan Province of southeast Iran has increased significantly. The true death toll is not known as of yet while at least 90 individuals lost their lives in the 24 hours alone.

The death toll in various provinces include: 5,870 in Tehran, 2,775 in Razavi Khorasan, 1,348 in East Azerbaijan, 1,130 in West Azerbaijan, 886 in Hamedan, 795 in Lorestan, 590 in Kurdistan, 575 Semnan, 475 in Zanjan, and 375 in North Khorasan. This is in addition to reports obtained from other provinces.

Over 34,700 dead of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Iran

Over 34,700 dead of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Iran

 

At a time when the regime is continuing its deceptive measures and refusing to report the true coronavirus death toll, Alireza Zali, head of Tehran’s COVID-19 Task Force HQ said, “From the virus outbreak to this day we have hospitalized around 58,000 patients in Tehran.” (State-run Asr-e Iran daily—April 24, 2020)

Iranian regime Health Minister Saeed Namaki voiced concerns after taking part in the World Health Organization’s Health Ministers Conference. “We are still at the halfway mark and it is possible, God forbid, that we may suffer severe setbacks…” he said.

Ali Akbari, a member of the regime’s Majlis (parliament) from the city of Shiraz in south-central Iran, said, “The novel coronavirus’ spread in Fars Province during the past ten days has been escalating. There are concerns that, considering the prolonged process of this illness, our medical staff may become tired and worn out.” (State-run Entekhab daily—April 24, 2020)

Head of the Qom Medical Sciences University warned Iran may “once again face an epidemic and a second peak that may be even more severe.” If social distancing regulations are not abided, “it can result in irreparable damages.”

While Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani have sent millions of Iranians back to work, Mohammad Reza Zafarghandi, head of Iran’s Medical Apparatus Organization issued a letter on Thursday, April 23, to Rouhani saying: “Any rush into unnecessary and uncontrollable reopening of highly crowded areas including religious sites, schools, universities… will result in a spread of the illness, threaten people’s lives and health, and ruin the hard work of our medical staff.” (State-run ISNA news agency—April 23, 2020)

The regime’s official number of coronavirus cases and deaths is even being ridiculed by the regime’s own media outlets. One such piece reads, “Who is to blame? The people, foreign media or the officials themselves who had uncoordinated remarks from the very first day of the illness? How is it possible that health officials, including the chair of Tehran’s COVID-19 Task Force HQ, report an increasing number of cases in Tehran on a daily basis, or the governors of Mazandaran and Khuzestan provinces talk about a significant rise in the number of coronavirus cases, and yet the number of cases across the country was reported as decreasing?… Dr. Zali said [on Thursday, April 24] that 6,000 cases suspicious of coronavirus entered various hospitals. If we assume that just one sixth of these cases were infected, then all of today’s 1,030 new cases (announced by the Health Ministry) belonged to Tehran and the number of new cases in many cities were not only decreasing but had reached zero.” (State-run Rouz-e No daily—April 25, 2020)

 

 

All the while, Seyed Mohammad Mehdi Mir-Bagheri, a member of the regime’s Assembly of Experts, highlighted one of the regime’s main concerns about coronavirus news posted on social media networks. “The most dangerous of all issues in the post-coronavirus world is that the human society is being pushed into a ruling social media atmosphere that is ruled by major powers, managed as a network across the globe and we are its users,” he said on Friday, April 24, according to the Jahad-e Daneshgahi website. “Teaching how to use social media has been searched more than the last three years combined,” he added while further emphasizing on “the necessity to carry out major plots to confront this conspiracy by the major powers.”

The conditions in prisons are still critical and every day, there’s news of more inmates contracting COVID-19 and their lives are in danger. But instead of releasing prisoners, the regime has accelerated the pace of executions. In recent days, the regime has executed several prisoners in Saqqez, Sanandaj, Kermanshah, Zahedan, Shiraz, Isfahan and Karaj.

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), emphasized that committing such crimes at the cusp of the holy month of Ramadan, which is marked by all Muslims as the month of forgiveness and generosity, shows the regime’s utter desperation and fear of the explosive state of the Iranian society. The regime sees repression and violence as the only way to control the situation. The regime thinks that savagery will prevent uprisings. But this will only add fuel to the explosive capacity of the society.

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