According to the Iranian regime, Iranian society is now experiencing a second and deadlier wave of the COVID-19 outbreak. Iran is reaching its second peak of this virus, with thousands of daily infections and an increasing death toll.
This trend, which due to the regime’s cover-up and premature ending of the national quarantine, confirms that this humanitarian catastrophe is much more horrible than it looks, and the regime’s officials are admitting to this fact. Yet, instead of taking further action, the regime’s officials are pursuing the herd immunity policy and meanwhile blatantly blame people for their “lack of cooperation,” in terms of social distancing standards.
Mohammad Reza Shams Ardakani, an advisor to the regime’s Health Minister, told the official IRNA news agency on Tuesday: “The number of registered coronavirus cases is rising. The people should know that we will be living with the coronavirus epidemic for the next one or two years. We in Iran acted more quickly than Europe in reopening our systems. We believed the situation was normalizing while it was not… Each coronavirus test costs the government around 4 million rials (equal to about $22.40). I am certain that if the situation gets worse the quarantine restrictions will most certainly be reimplemented and this indeed should take place.”
Alireza Zali, head of Tehran’s coronavirus Task Force, told state television on Tuesday: The number of people seeking medical care in health centers and hospitals has shown a 3.5 percent increase in the past 24 hours.
Dr. Ehsan Mostafavai, head of the Research Center for New and Emerging Diseases of the Pasteur Institute of Iran, in a video conference with the state-run news agencies, said: “According to our data and findings, about 15 million people in the country have been infected with the virus since the beginning of the epidemic.”
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, Mujahedin-e Khalq or MEK), which has been closely tracking the number of the COVID-19 deaths since its outbreak, announced on Tuesday that over 50,500 people have already lost their lives to this virus.
In addition, while the rising coronavirus death toll forces the regime to acknowledge some parts of the crisis, the regime’s infighting has increased. Said Namaki, the regime’s Health Minister, fired Kianoosh Jahanpour, the spokesman for the Ministry of Health, who was the main and the well-known spokesman for the regime in announcing government statistics.
While the virus continues to spread across Iran, claiming more lives, the regime’s officials, particularly its president Hassan Rouhani, blame the people.
During a meeting of the National Coronavirus Task Force, Rouhani said: “Unfortunately, some people think this virus is an issue that if we all unite we could defeat it in couple of months, or by staying at home for 10 or 20 days, the dangerous period would end. This isn’t the case.”
Rouhani made these remarks, while unlike other countries, the regime deliberately dragged its feet to confirm COVID-19 existence; then resorted to a cover–up and refused to issue a national quarantine, and when it did, it was not accompanied by governmental help which led more people to join the army of starving people and could have resulted in a nationwide uprising, so the mullahs immediately forced people back to work.
Despite the growing number of infections and deaths, Rouhani insisted on resuming economic activities, keeping prisoners amid COVID-19‘s rapid spread in prisons and said the regime does not have “a second option.” This means that the mullahs will continue sending people to the coronavirus killing field.
Blaming people simultaneous with forcing them back to work, in addition to Jahanpour’s dismissal, are signs of the regime’s utter fear of the consequences of its criminal policies, lack of transparency, announcing engineered statistics and not taking action.
The regime fears the post-coronavirus situation and the restive Iranian society which needs a spark to explode. As the state-run Resalat daily warned on May 26: “Only an excuse is needed. Then, like throwing a match into a haystack, it will destroy everything.”
The Iranian regime’s approach toward the COVID-19 outbreak, form its very first days, shows that the regime has prioritized its economic needs and security over people’s lives and will continue doing so.
As NCRI President elect Mrs. Maryam Rajavi said on Sunday: “This catastrophe and such great loss of lives could have been avoided. The death toll in Iran and even the official figures could not be compared to the death toll in other countries in the Middle East.”
#Coronavirus fatalities in Iran exceeded 50,000 – This catastrophe and such great loss of lives could have been avoided. The death toll in #Iran and even the official figures could not be compared to the death toll in other countries in the Middle East.https://t.co/R5ycsZOc3K
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) June 7, 2020
