Analysis by PMOI/MEK
Iran, August 14, 2021—Iran is facing a disastrous and tragic resurgence of coronavirus infection, with the number of covid cases and deaths growing at an unprecedented rate. The uncontrolled spread of virus has caused concern among regime officials and leaders who previously showed no empathy toward the health and lives of the Iranian people. And this concern is not caused by the skyrocketing coronavirus casualties but the ramifications that it can have for the regime in its entire.
Regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei revoked his previous ban on the import of WHO-approved covid vaccines, and while he had previously called the coronavirus pandemic a “blessing,” he acknowledged in earlier this week that the pandemic is “the country’s most pertinent problem” and “and urgent problem that must be solved.”
Before Khamenei, senior members of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) tried to dampen the boiling public anger towards the regime’s destructive policies that have led to the outbreak spinning out of control.
Regime president Ebrahim Raisi sent a special representative along health minister Saied Namaki to the city of Mashhad, where the death toll is increasing at an alarming rate. His goal was to create the impression that the government has not abandoned the health crisis, a fact that even the regime’s own state-run media are pointing out to.
To cover up the regime’s abysmal handling of the pandemic, Raisi outrageously claimed, “Had we not taken measures, we would have witnessed more than 1200-1300 daily deaths today.” (Source: Entekhab website, August 12).
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
In another deceitful gesture, Majlis (parliament) speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf sent an urgent letter and ordered the Majlis health commission to come up with “expert management solutions for the management of the coronavirus pandemic” and to declare those solutions to the government.
And Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, the criminal head of the judiciary, claimed to protect the people’s rights against corrupt financial institutions.
Of course, none of the problems regime officials are referring are recent discoveries. Doctors, nurses, and medical experts inside and outside Iran have been warning about the repercussions of the regime’s destructive handling of the pandemic since the coronavirus outbreak began in February 2020.
Therefore, it is clear that these too-little-too-late shows of empathy and affection are nothing but futile attempts to deceive the people and to relieve regime leaders of the responsibility of the tragic conditions of the pandemic, conditions that can no longer be covered from the public and the world.
On August 13, the official IRNA news agency reported, “There are approximately 300 deaths in Mashhad every day, and this number is increasing. The age of the deceased has reached below 35-40 years.”
“The scent of death is sensed across the country. Each and every household is grieving. Vaccines that could have saved thousands of lives were not imported and people have entered the fifth wave, with a sixth, seventh and… waves being highly likely. Many countries are celebrating the end of masking necessities and our people are in wave after wave of Covid-19,” according to a Friday piece wired by the semi-official ILNA news agency.
"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
Tehran’s Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences declared on Thursday: “If we want to declare the truth to the people, there are currently 43,000 people hospitalized across the country. Of these 43,000 people, at least 4,000 will die. These figures will possibly reach 150,000 hospitalized patients, of which 15,000 will die in this peak.”
It is clear that the regime is fully responsible for the current situation, and at the forefront of the perpetrators is Khamenei, who banned the import of reliable vaccines in January.
In his criminal mindset, Khamenei thought that by unleashing the covid outbreak on the defenseless Iranian population and inflicting maximum casualties, he would be able to protect his regime from nationwide protests like the one that brought his regime to the verge of collapse in 2019.
But while he might have bought his regime some time with the pandemic, he has now created a bigger problem: An uncontrollable pandemic that has killed 400,000 people so far and has Khamenei’s fingerprints all over it.
Mohammad Reza Mahboubfar, a member of the National Covid-19 Task Force, admitted on August 9 that “the number of covid deaths are spiking” and describe the refusal to buy vaccines as the main reason for the death of people and “manslaughter.”
All of these remarks by the regime’s own officials hint at what the public thinks about the current state of the coronavirus conditions and who is to blame for the situation. And they know that the only way to end the coronavirus pandemic is to end the pandemic that has been plaguing their country for four decades.
