Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll in 408 Cities Exceeds 96,500

Abdolreza Mesri, a regime Parliament deputy: To drag people’s children to school and endanger them is, in my opinion, premeditated murder. If we rush in doing this, the children will contract the virus; this is not recklessness, we will knowingly and intentionally cause the murder.

• President of Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences: The highest number of Coronavirus hospitalizations since the beginning of the outbreak was recorded in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari hospitals on Friday. (Javan, August 29, 2020)

• Head of Kohgiluyeh Health Network: The situation is horrific. Intensive Care Units are full. Over the past week, we had a record in the Coronavirus patients. Mortality may increase in the coming weeks. (ILNA, August 29, 2020)

• Isfahan University of Medical Sciences: The number of hospitalized patients (excluding Kashan, Aran va Bidgol) is 1,022. Ten people died in the past 24 hours. (Mehr, August 28, 2020)

• Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences: Coronavirus inpatients has increased by nine percent. (Mehr, August 29, 2020)

The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK), announced on Saturday, August 29, 2020, that the Coronavirus death toll in 408 cities across Iran, had exceeded 96,500. The number of victims in Khorasan Razavi is 6,875, Khuzestan 6,467, Isfahan 4,349, Lorestan 4,167, Gilan 3,998, Sistan and Baluchestan 3,032, East Azerbaijan 2,820, Alborz 2,773, West Azerbaijan 2,649, Hamedan 2,458, Kerman 1,543, Hormozgan 1,284, Bushehr 1,187, Ardabil 1,142, Zanjan 919, and Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari 677.

Abdulreza Mesri, a regime parliament deputy from Kermanshah, told Etemad Online, today, “I am 100 percent opposed to dragging children to school and endangering them. Kermanshah and several other provinces should not become laboratories. My request to the government is to pay serious attention to not use Kermanshah as a white zone or a place to experiment in reopening schools, like a laboratory, and Later, to present it as a successful experience. They will be forced to hide the fatalities. In such a case, I think it will be premeditated murder … If we rush and the children contract Coronavirus, I do not consider that recklessness, and I believe that we are deliberately and intentionally committing murder.” (Etemad Online, September 29)

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)

August 29, 2020