1st Feb 2022 - By the most conservative estimates, the COVID-19 death toll in 547 cities across Iran has reached a staggering half a million now, this was collated through a network of activists in Iran and announced on, January 25, 2022. The regime’s leaders tried to undermine the severity of the pandemic as much as they could.
To justify his unpatriotic and inhuman policies, Khamenei said on March 3, 2020: “Let’s not exaggerate the issue (of the pandemic) too much. It’s an incident that has happened and will disappear, God willing, not very long. It will (emerge) in the country and spread and then leave.” Worse, he called the deadly virus a “blessing” and an “opportunity.”
The mullahs’ regime, which has provided the best medical equipment and supplies to its officials and IRGC commanders, has refused to provide the most basic of supplies to the medical personnel and nurses who have put their life on the line to assist our compatriots. It has even refused to pay their wages, to the point where its MP from Gilan Province was quoted by Jahan Sanat, on March 9, 2020, as saying, “Our doctors do not have masks and gloves and are losing their lives due to lack of supplies, as special supplies such as oxygen and medicines are lacking in that Province.
The most criminal aspect of Khamenei’s policy was the ban on the entry of vaccines. At that time, the number of victims had reached 200,000. On January 8, 2021, Khamenei callously declared: “Importing American and British vaccines into the country is prohibited. I told this to the officials, and I say it publicly now.”
The policies of the clerical regime and Khamenei himself are to blame for most of the 500,000 Coronavirus deaths in Iran. From paving the way for the rapid spread of the virus to leaving people and patients at the mercy of the virus and not allocating even a tiny fraction of the $1 trillion funds under the control of the Supreme Leader and the Revolutionary Guards to fight the virus, to initially keeping the people in the dark on the facts about the spread of the virus and preventing vaccines’ import, etc. This policy and practice are without a doubt a clear case of crime against humanity, and its perpetrators, especially Khamenei, must be brought to justice.
