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Iran: Mosques open for Ramadan despite up to 100,000 coronavirus infections

May 15, 2020 11:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

“The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) announced on Tuesday that, by its tally, over 41,000 people have died in Iran as a result of Chinese coronavirus infection. The death toll surpassed 40,000 on Friday.”

But a France24 report says that Iran’s cases of coronavirus have surpassed 90,000, while Asia Times states Iran has already exceeded 100,000 infections, and “remains the Middle East’s epicenter of Covid-19, with more than double the number of recorded infections in Saudi Arabia, the region’s second worst-hit country.”

Still, mosques have been opened for Ramadan in Iran and shrines may follow, drawing multitudes, some of whom may resume the practice of licking the shrines that was seen at the beginning of the pandemic.

Last month, Iran went to the International Monetary Fund, seeking a $5 billion USD emergency loan to fight its public health crisis. The trouble is that Iran has been discovered to be diverting funds from domestic priorities during the pandemic to pay for its Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). A Muslim cleric was also caught on Iran’s Radio Farda soliciting funds during the coronavirus pandemic for the IRGC.

Meanwhile, news emerged about the “manufacturing company” known as Imam Reza Headquarters. The company “claims that it manufactures protective masks in fifty workshops across Iran, and it has also promised unnamed state-own entities to produce twenty million masks for free distribution among the poverty-stricken people in Iran.” Yet the “headquarters is officially registered as the Mehr al-Reza Jihadi Foundation,” and questions have been raised over whether it is involved in other activities besides the “health jihad.”

Asia Times reports that Iran’s IMF appeal “is likely to be blocked by the United States, which has the biggest share of votes.” America has not eased up on sanctions for the very reason that funds will go to pay for jihad terror.

“Dissidents: Iran Surpasses 40,000 Coronavirus Deaths,” by Frances Martel, Breitbart, May 12, 2020:

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) announced on Tuesday that, by its tally, over 41,000 people have died in Iran as a result of Chinese coronavirus infection. The death toll surpassed 40,000 on Friday.

The NCRI keeps an independent tally of coronavirus deaths in the country in concert with its affiliated dissident groups, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), which uses a combination of local confirmed cases and deaths and information from medical staff at major hospitals to keep track. The death rate the group has documented is significantly higher than official Iranian Islamic regime estimates.

Officially, Iran claims to have confirmed 110,767 cases of Chinese coronavirus in the country and 6,733 deaths, which still makes it one of the most severely affected nations by the pandemic.

PMOI/MEK noted in its update of its internal tally that the Iranian regime death toll is less than one-seventh of what the dissident group alleges it is. The tally cites both local counts in some of the most affected provinces and individual death counts in hospitals with large numbers of people affected.

In announcing the updated number, the dissident organization also cited reports in government-run media – Iran only allows official state publications or nominally private but regime-friendly media groups to operate in the country – that indicate few within Iran believe the official numbers.

One state-run newspaper, Jahane San’at, allegedly published a report on Tuesday stating that the official numbers have been deflated in large part by Iranian government officials ordering hospitals not to take coronavirus patients in anymore.

“In many cities, they are no longer taking COVID-19 patients to hospitals. They refuse to provide medical treatment for so long that the patient dies and is directly taken to a cemetery,” the newspaper reported, according to the PMOI/MEK.

The dissident group also cited other media outlets expressing alarm at how the economic crisis is creating high-risk situations for coronavirus contamination. One newspaper reported an increase in the number of people scavenging through trash for items they could use to sell and trade for food, a situation reminiscent of that which has dominated the streets of cities of Venezuela, an Iranian regime ally, for years…..

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  1. mortimer says

    May 15, 2020 at 11:11 am

    The Islamic shoulder-to-shoulder method of communal prayer is designed for spreading infections.

    • w says

      May 16, 2020 at 9:48 am

      Coronavirus Dashboard today reports 18,392 cases and almost 7000 deaths

      • gravenimage says

        May 16, 2020 at 8:19 pm

        Probably a severe under count, given reporting from Iran.

    • william carr says

      May 16, 2020 at 9:59 am

      The Anti Defamation League exposes defamation by defaming

  2. Martin says

    May 15, 2020 at 11:17 am

    OT video – PAKISTAN – RAMADAN 21st ( May 15 2020 ) – Youm Ali festival –

    • Martin says

      May 15, 2020 at 11:47 am

      PAKISTAN – MAY 15 2020 – Youm Ali procession

      maybe a good way to fortify and stimulate their immune system — a few are wearing masks though –

  3. Lynn Moser says

    May 15, 2020 at 12:32 pm

    They may achieve herd immunity which is what we should be doing as a country. But letting the culling begin with islamists is fine with me. The crush of people is mostly men anyway.

    • gravenimage says

      May 15, 2020 at 6:27 pm

      Those Muslim men are going to take this infection home to their wives and children.

  4. No Muzzies Here says

    May 15, 2020 at 2:54 pm

    I see the regime has learned a lesson from the way Democrats are handling the Covid-19 crisis in the USA. It consists of keeping the people miserable so as to better control them.

  5. keith O says

    May 15, 2020 at 5:31 pm

    Unfortunately, a lot more Iranian people will have to die at the hands of their corrupt dictatorship before the people have a gut full and rise up against them.

    • gravenimage says

      May 15, 2020 at 6:27 pm

      We’ve been waiting for over 40 years now. I’m not sure it is going to change…

      • keith O says

        May 16, 2020 at 12:13 am

        And we were waiting how long for the Berlin wall to come down??

      • gravenimage says

        May 16, 2020 at 8:21 pm

        Keith, this is true. But 99.4% of Iranians are Muslim–I don’t see that changing significantly any time soon.

  6. gravenimage says

    May 15, 2020 at 6:22 pm

    Iran: Mosques open for Ramadan despite up to 100,000 coronavirus infections
    ………………..

    Morons.

    More:

    “In many cities, they are no longer taking COVID-19 patients to hospitals. They refuse to provide medical treatment for so long that the patient dies and is directly taken to a cemetery”
    ………………..

    God, how horrifying. This is far worse than just ineptitude.

  7. Shastra says

    May 16, 2020 at 12:22 am

    Same happening in India. When govt blocks it. Court cancels the order saying this is their Holy month. Seriously where the hell is equality. When all other religions are not allowed to celebrate their festivals.

  8. OLD GUY says

    May 16, 2020 at 10:12 pm

    YEA! My only hope is that the rest of the world would restrict all travel from any islamic country. That will give islam a chance to prove that their Allah will prevent them from getting C-19.

  9. Max says

    May 20, 2020 at 1:32 am

    Still, mosques have been opened for Ramadan in Iran.
    Well, they say that allah protects them. Let us see how well that goes.

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