Covid-19 keeps killing Iranians, even as regime keeps hiding realities
The Iranian regime continues to deflect attention from its failure in handling the Covid-19 crisis.
Infections and deaths are reaching record numbers in this
country.
Official media, meanwhile, works hard to gloss over the
real infection and death figures.
The Revolutionary Guard Corpse manages the Covid-19 file.
It works hard to varnish the situation of the pandemic in Iran by hiding the
real infection and death figures.
The Iranian government hides Covid-19 realities for
internal and external reasons. Internally, Iran wants Shiite religious
activities to continue. It also wants Iranians to keep visiting Shiite shrines.
Externally, Iran does not want to cut off its trade ties
with China or look helpless in the eyes of the Americans. It also wants to
maintain the freedom of movement with Iraq and Syria. However, the free
movement of the Iran-backed militia members between Iran, Iraq and Syria
contributed to spreading the disease.
Three-fold
The number of Covid-19 deaths in Iran until July 20 was
three times higher than the figure reported by the Iranian Ministry of Health.
According to the Ministry of Health, 14,000 Iranians had
been killed by the disease until July 20.
However, this means that over 42,000 people were killed by
the disease in Iran until that date.
The actual number of infections also reached 451,000,
two-fold the number reported by the Ministry of Health, according to an
investigation by BBC.
It said Iranian authorities had intentionally reported
fewer infections and deaths, even as there are records at Iranian hospitals.
In recent days, the state television in Iran conceded that
there is a Covid-19 fatality in the country every seven minutes.
Iranian media warned, meanwhile, against the dangers of
overlooking distancing guidelines.
