Analysis by PMOI/MEK
Iran, August 30, 2021—Iran is facing a disastrous and tragic resurgence of coronavirus infections, with the number of covid cases and deaths escalating at an unprecedented rate.
With the rising number of coronavirus fatalities, the criminal policies of the regime ruling Iran in this regard are being exposed. Prior to the emergence of the delta variant, the Covid-19 had provided an opportunity and blessing for Iranian regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei to temporarily delay the brewing storm of nationwide popular protests and all out social uprisings.
A ban on vaccine imports and the hoarding of raw materials needed for vaccines by government-linked agencies continue to this day
Long lines and crowds in front of pharmacies are like a social time bomb.
Regime officials have blamed medicine shortages on overcrowded pharmacies. The reality, however, is that hoarding by the drug mafia in Iran has prevented patients from accessing necessary medications.
“18 tons of the Covid medication awaiting clearance” is one report wired by the official IRNA news agency on August 15. “According to the information and statistics announced by the Khomeini Airport General Warehousing Company, more than four tons of raw materials for Favipiravir, 800 kilograms of Betadex raw materials and more than 13 tons of Remdesivir have been stored in the relevant cold storages,” the report reads.
“On the other hand, the announced customs statistics indicate the uncertain nature of a shipment of 200,000 packages of 100 mg syringes of Remdesivir at the customs, which requires immediate action by the Health Ministry,” the IRNA report adds.
Tehran, #Iran
This truck driver says their loads of IV fluids/vaccines from Turkey have been kept at the capital’s Shahriar Customs for 10-15 days despite severe shortages during the ongoing #COVID crisis.pic.twitter.com/EXy2rvNEI8— People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) August 30, 2021
“The deposition of 6,500 tons of medicines and raw materials for Covid medicine at Khomeini International Airport’s customs and delaying the clearance of imported shipments of saline IV fluids during such circumstances when people are desperate to find a pharmacy to purchase Remdesivir, saline IV fluids, and many other vital medicine items, is nothing but negligence in the need to value the hours and seconds of people’s lives,” according to an August 15 report by the Etemad daily.
Therefore, there is no shortage of medicines, especially since importing medicine is not sanctioned and its entry is free in any way and to any extent.
Also, in ports and docks, medicine is stored in large quantities. However, they become scarce and expensive in the market. One of the rare and expensive medicines is now the ones needed to treat black fungus caused by covid.
“The main medicine for fungal infections is Amphotericin B, which unfortunately we are facing a serious shortage in across the country. In some cases it is not available at all until a point when we could not provide this medication for even ten hospitalized patients.
“The importance of this medication in the treatment of black fungus caused a sudden increase in demand for this drug in the Iranian market. Saeed Reza Mehrpour, director of Shariati Hospital, also considered the lack of Amphotericin B as a serious and important point. ‘Hospitals will have problems if this medicine is not provided,’” according to the Jamejam online, quoting an expert on August 26.
Kohgiluyeh & Boyer Ahmad province, southwest #Iran
Locals are seen burying their loved ones who have died of #COVID19.The regime’s deliberate mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic has left more than 391,000 dead and counting.pic.twitter.com/cA6jli7icN
— People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) August 29, 2021
“Covid patients are provided medication and corticosteroids that have even more side effects than Covid-19 itself. Like the Ivermectin syringe, which is currently prescribed in 90 percent of prescriptions for covid, it is used worldwide as an antiparasitic drug to prevent infection in livestock. The head of Yas Hospital in Tehran said: More than half of the deaths of covid patients are due to the side effects of the drugs that are prescribed.
Billions of rials were paid to Russia to procure 60 million Sputnik vaccines doses, and finally only 900,000 doses were imported into the country, which also went to only certain sections of the society. Is this also a Western conspiracy?” asked one writer in an August 25 report published by the state-run Mardomsalari daily.
But why is medicine so scarce and expensive in Iran?
The reason is none other than a black market for drugs launched by the terrorist-designated Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and the Executive Headquarters of Khomeini’s Order.
From the very beginning of this pandemic, this entity opposed the import of vaccines and regularly promised to produce millions of doses of indigenous vaccines. It is now clear that these domestic vaccines are not very effective, and at the same time, they regime is plundering the Iranian people by storing drugs in customs and leaking them to the black market.
The Executive Headquarters of Khomeini’s Order, which is under the supervision of the regime’s First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber, is Iran’s largest economic cartel and controlled directly by Khamenei, which mainly controls the production and import of pharmaceuticals.
The tragedy is exacerbated when the purchase of medicine has become impossible for the majority of the 96 percent of Iranians who are below the poverty line and are not even able to make ends meet.
Ahvaz, southwest #Iran
Image showing the atrocious conditions in the city’s Razi Hospital as medical facilities across the country desperately attempt to confront the ongoing fifth #COVID wave. pic.twitter.com/9LbLTk9b7M— People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) August 29, 2021
Khamenei is killing the Iranian people by banning the import of vaccines and creating a black market for medicine.
The people blame the regime and Khamenei for the current extremely critical situation, an issue that has recently prompted government officials to justify Khamenei’s orders to distance him from public anger and hatred.
However, this effort is in vain due to the fact that people in the streets and on social media platforms are repeatedly blaming Khamenei for the dire status quo and calling for his overthrow and that of his corrupt regime with the slogan of “Death to Khamenei!” as heard in recent protests.
