- Saeed Namaki, regime’s Health Minister: What can trouble us like a storm is the virus traveling from, for example, Kurdistan to Bandar Abbas, from Bandar Abbas to North Khorasan, and so on. We are very worried about this transition. (ISNA news agency, January 24, 2021)
- A member of the National Coronavirus Combat Taskforce (NCCT): The fact that COVID-19 has mutated to a stronger and more contagious virus, has made us more concerned about the advent of the fourth wave. (State-run media, Aria, January 24, 2021)
- Head of the Medical Organization: In six provinces, we have seen evidences of a worrying increase in new COVID-19 patients. (IRNA news agency, January 23, 2021)
- Alireza Zali, head of NCCT in Tehran: School activities must continue virtually. The COVID-19 infection of adolescents was lower when education was carried out virtually in previous months. (Shafaghna media outlet, January 24, 2021)
- Vice president of Iran’s University of Medical Sciences: If the newly found Coronavirus spreads, we will have a 30 to 40% increase in infections and mortalities. (State TV, January 23, 2021)
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) announced on Sunday, January 24, 2021, that the Coronavirus death toll in 478 cities had exceeded 205,800. The number of victims in Tehran is 49,976, Khorasan Razavi 13,905, Isfahan 13,010, Khuzestan 10,270, Mazandaran 8,262, East Azerbaijan 7,858, Golestan 5,195, Kermanshah 4,264, Yazd 3,777, North Khorasan 3,168, Semnan 3,050, Zanjan 2,210, Ilam 2,131, Bushehr 2,074, and South Khorasan 1,956.
While public anger and outrage for banning the purchase of vaccines from the United States, Britain and France continues, in a series of Friday Prayers this week, the clerics used a bunch of lies to justify Khamenei’s criminal dictum. According to the State TV, yesterday, Khamenei’s representative in Mashhad, Alam al-Huda said: “Some people who are in concert with American and British media outlets, have been protesting Khamenei’s banning of the European and British vaccines. Why are you objecting this ban, when there have been cases of fatality due to these vaccines and the Americans and British do not dare to get vaccinated?”
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
January 24, 2021
