Reporting by PMOI/MEK
Iran, May 03, 2020—Over 38,700 people have died of the novel coronavirus in 310 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 Sunday afternoon local time, May 3. The official death count declared by the regime is 6,203, less than a sixth of the actual figure.
The death toll in various provinces include: 2,920 in Razavi Khorasan, 1,920 in Khuzestan, 1,460 in Alborz, 1,235 in Golestan, 1,055 in Sistan & Baluchistan, 910 in Lorestan, 955 in Hamedan and 895 in Semnan. This is in addition to reports obtained from other provinces.
Over 38,700 dead of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Iran
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In the city of Langrud, northern Iran, the number of coronavirus cases have increased in the past few days and the city’s Amini Hospital is facing a new wave of patients that need to be hospitalized.
In Ahvaz, southwest Iran, at least 26 people lost their lives on Saturday, May 2, and the city’s hospitals are literally cramped with no more space for more patients.
In Rasht, northern Iran, to depict normal conditions authorities have ordered hospitals to refrain from hospitalizing the patients as much as possible and send them to their homes.
In North Khorasan Province, northeast Iran, Dr. Seyed Ahmad Hashemi, caretaker of the local Medical Sciences University said on Saturday, “The number of COVID-19 patients in the next few days… will escalate in an unprecedented scale,” according to the regime’s official IRNA news agency.
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All the while, IRNA quoted regime President Hassan Rouhani saying on Sunday, “Mosques will open on Monday in 132 cities that are considered ‘white’ and less dangers areas, and mass prayers will be held this coming Friday. Even in ‘red’ areas some businesses… will reopen to an extent that they don’t cause large crowds.”
Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Rouhani have resorted to this criminal measure of sending people back to work while the mullahs’ own officials and experts are describing the current circumstances as dangerous. “We need to continue considering Tehran as a contaminated city… We must not be deceived by a decrease in numbers,” said Alireza Zali, head of Tehran’s COVID-1 Task Force HQ, on Saturday, according to the IRNA news agency.
Sara Shah-abadi of Kermanshah Medical Sciences University in western Iran said to the regime’s state-run IRIB TV on Sunday, “Coronavirus positive cases are increasing with each passing day. We are concerned about a second COVID-19 wave. This virus will be far more active in the second wave.”
According to the state-run Setareyeh Sobh daily on Sunday, Mohammad Reza Mahboubfar, a member of Iran’s National COVID-19 Task Force HQ said, “I don’t agree with Rouhani’s remarks about religious sites probably reopening in white areas … There are no white zones, and there will be no white zones.”
On the other hand, at least three months after the coronavirus outbreak and four weeks after Khamenei agreed to have 1 billion euros extracted from the National Development Fund to address the COVID-19 crisis, even the regime’s Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi is voicing protests in this regard. This money “is still undergoing the bureaucratic process and being exchanged into rials (Iran’s national currency). No money has been deposited into the Health Ministry’s account,” he added.
Two days ago, political prisoner Mohammad Nourizad attempted suicide in protest to the unabated spread of coronavirus in prisons, which is getting worse as the regime continues to make widespread arrests. Nourizad was transferred to the hospital. The conditions in prisons is constantly getting worse. There’s particular concern about the situation of eight political prisoners in Mashhad prison who had called for the resignation of Khamenei last year. One of these inmates, Mr. Mohammad Hossein Sepehri, had contracted COVID-19 last month.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), had previously condemned the cruel sentences against these prisoners and had called for the United Nations and the UN Human Rights Council to take immediate action to secure their release. Today, Mrs. Rajavi reiterated her demand for the inspection of the regime’s prisons. She stressed that the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in Iran should immediately visit Mashhad prison and report on the conditions of these prisoners.
Mrs. Rajavi added that the regime is trying to compare Iran to European countries and normalize the situation. Khamenei is sending the people to a coronavirus minefield. The lives of the Iranian people has no value for this regime, and the people have so far received no help from the billions of dollars that are in the exclusive possession of Khamenei. Mrs. Rajavi called on the UN Security Council to intervene to save the lives of prisoners, especially political prisoners.
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