Reporting by PMOI/MEK
Iran, May 07, 2020—Over 39,800 people have died of the novel coronavirus in 314 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 Thursday afternoon local time, May 7. The official death count declared by the regime is 6,486, less than a sixth of the actual figure.
The death toll in various provinces include: 6,650 in Tehran, 3,290 in Qom, 2,690 in Gilan, 1,215 in West Azerbaijan, 1,091 in Sistan & Baluchistan, 1,005 in Fars, 985 in Hamedan, 433 in North Khorasan, and 135 in South Khorasan. This is in addition to reports obtained from other provinces.
Over 39,800 dead of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Iran
Conditions are further deteriorating in Khuzestan Province following orders from senior regime officials for people to return to work. Kianush Jahanpour, spokesperson of the Iranian regime’s Health Ministry, had concerning remarks in this regard. “We are currently facing fragile and overflowing conditions in Khuzestan Province,” he said on Thursday.
“Coronavirus is spreading throughout Khuzestan on a massive scale,” said the head of Razi Hospital in Ahvaz, capital of Khuzestan Province, according to a report published by the state-run Entekhab daily on Thursday. “Conditions are so bad that one in every two people coming to the facility needs to be hospitalized. Around 60 patients are here in the ICU with severe breathing difficulties and their conditions are very dire… This illness is very dangerous and brutal… We have never before had this many people come to the hospital. However, during the past few days, there has been a rise and the status quo in Khuzestan is becoming a crisis,” he added.
The circumstances in other provinces and are also very grim. “Our province remains a red area in regard to the spread of COVID-19,” said the deputy governor of North Khorasan Province in northeast Iran, according to a report wired on Wednesday, May 6, by the regime’s official IRNA news agency.
Deputy dean of Zahedan Medical Sciences University in southeast Iran said on Thursday, “In [Sistan & Baluchistan] province the number of new cases has increased six-fold and most of these cases are related to the past ten days,” according to the state-run Aftab News daily.
All the while, regime President Hassan Rouhani has resorted to averting attention away through lies about Iran’s stock exchange, which has become a new tool for the regime to further plunder the Iranian people. However, a member of the regime’s Majlis (parliament) had other thoughts. “The stock exchange bubble will burst, and I’m concerned about the social and security consequences in the near future. Protests bigger than the Dec 2017/Jan 2018 and Nov 2019, and certainly bigger than those back in the 1990s,” said Ahmad Naderi according to the state-run Resalat daily.
Jahane Sanat, another state-run daily, also had warnings on Thursday. “If the government fails to reevaluate its policies, the people will erupt like an active volcano.” The state-run Armane Meli wrote in this regard, “We all must understand we should not be caught off guard regarding protests by the hungry.”
#Iran's stock exchange is astonishingly on the rise while all economic indicators are currently very negative.
Inflation: 45-50 percent
Economic growth: -7%https://t.co/hdC53EcjGB— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) May 6, 2020
Iranian opposition President Maryam Rajavi, head of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), condemned the regime’s destructive policies of sending people to their deaths, and especially the new coronavirus wave in Khuzestan Province. “Conditions in Khuzestan are the result of criminal and plundering policies imposed by regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Rouhani. Instead of temporarily providing the people’s salaries from public funds—controlled by Khamenei and the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC)—they have sent the population back to work, in fact to their deaths, without any support or medical supplies,” Madam Rajavi said.
“Once again the people and especially the youths have to take matters into their own hands and provide for the ill and needy while abiding by all hygiene rules and regulations,” she added.
Iran coronavirus outbreak death toll interactive map
