Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll in 458 Cities Exceeds 124,000

Twenty million Iranians with underlying medical conditions

are at high risk of contracting Coronavirus

• Member of the Board of the regime parliament’s Health Commission: It seems that the number of deaths is much higher than what is stated. If we continue the method of the past eight months, not only will we have the fourth peak of the outbreak, but also the fifth, sixth, seventh, and so on. (ILNA news agency, October 15, 2020)
• Kianoush Jahanpour, director of the Health Ministry’s public relations: We have passed the red state and should expect dark autumn. Twenty million Iranians with underlying medical conditions are at high risk of contracting Coronavirus. (IRNA, October 15, 2020)
• Alireza Zali, head of the National Coronavirus Combat Taskforce (NCCT) in Tehran: The highest mortality rate was recorded in Tehran yesterday, which was one of the worst days of the Coronavirus crisis in the capital. (IRNA, October 15, 2020)
• Tabriz University of Medical Sciences: So far, we have identified 42,000 positive Coronavirus patients, four and a half percent of whom have died. (IRNA, October 15, 2020)
• Head of Maku’s Health Network: The death toll is four times higher; the capacity of the only hospital is full, and patients are in queue to be hospitalized. (Javan daily, October 15, 2020)
• Alborz University of Medical Sciences: In the past 24 hours, 22 Coronavirus patients died, and the total number of Coronavirus fatalities in Alborz Province has reached 1,373. (ISNA, October 15, 2020)

The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) announced on October 15, 2020, that the Coronavirus death toll in 458 cities had exceeded 124,000. The number of victims in Tehran is 29,691, Khorasan Razavi 9,310, Khuzestan 7,913, Isfahan 6,474, Lorestan 5,398, Qom 5,265, East Azerbaijan 4,393, Sistan and Baluchestan 3,526, West Azerbaijan 3,442, Alborz 3,388, Hamedan 3,293, Kermanshah 2,708, North Khorasan 2,134, Kerman 1,893, Central Province 1,687, Hormozgan 1,615, Bushehr 1,485, Ilam 1,024, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari 942, and South Khorasan 914.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
October 15, 2020