Bankrupt economy, widespread corruption of the Iranian regime, Workers first victims
The war against the coronavirus pandemic is literally a life and death fight for nations. But in Iran, in addition to the coronavirus, people are also fighting a deadly virus called the Iranian regime's virus.
The bankrupt economy is the result of the wrong policies of the regime's leaders, which have deprived the Iranian people of their own financial resources and national wealth.
More than 36,600 people have died of the novel coronavirus in 301 cities checkered across all of Iran's 31 provinces, according to the Iranian opposition PMOI/MEK, due to the regime’s inaction
Since the first cases of COVID-19 were detected in the country, the outbreak has spread rapidly, now affecting every single province and 295 cities.
The Iranian regime is trying to downplay the situation, saying that the country is managing the crisis well and that people must return to their usual working activity. President Hassan Rouhani has been particularly focused on making it look like the outbreak is under control, but he has been lashing out at those exposing the regime’s lies and deceptions.
During a speech on Wednesday 22nd April, the Iranian President said that some people are trying to undermine the government, looking for problems and magnifying them. He hinted that those that are skeptical about the regime’s statistics are receiving instructions from abroad and that they are under instructions to cast doubts about the government. He is clearly referring to the opposition. The PMOI / MEK is one of the biggest threats to the regime’s existence. For decades, it has supported the people of Iran and is working towards the establishment of freedom, democracy, peace, and human rights. The organization has overwhelming support both inside and outside of Iran. Over the years, it has proven time and time again that the regime cannot be trusted. The most oppressed strata are the workers and the marginalized occupations of the society who are not covered by any government aid. Even nurses and medical staff are no exception.
Mahsa is a 28-year-old nurse in Mazandaran, a northern province in Iran that has been hard hit by the virus.
"Ventilators are very crucial for the treatment of COVID-19 patients, but officials tell us they have not been able to order enough of them, Medical goods are supposed to increase in accordance with the number of admitted patients, but these goods are very hard to find these days."
many people fault Iran's leadership for acting too slowly to contain the virus because of the financially-strapped population cannot afford not to work.
although the regime has been very reluctant to give actual figures because they fear a popular uprising over their mishandling of this crisis.
The wrong statistics could endanger people’s lives… If the officials do not provide accurate and clear information, they could be charged with manslaughter and should be held accountable for all these deaths for failing to make the right decision and perform duties properly.”
Of course, like many countries across the world, Iran could pay its citizens to stay at home, but they wouldn’t even have to increase the national debt. They could use the thousands of billions of dollars in assets that are held by the mullahs to support the people, something long called for by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and its president-elect Mrs. Maryam Rajavi
The regime’s inaction in facing the Coronavirus outbreak is criminal and it is obvious that survival is at the forefront of its actions. On Wednesday 22nd April, a former commander in chief of the notorious Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) echoed the words of the Supreme Leader when he said that the regime is attempting to turn the “Coronavirus threat into an opportunity”. Major Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari said that society in Iran has more dangerous viruses than Coronavirus and said that the regime will apply itself to tacking these so-called dangers.
Unwilling to communicate the true extent of the Coronavirus outbreak, the regime is doing nothing more than strengthening the people’s determination for regime change. in other words, the death toll will be rising due to the regime’s inaction. Governments across the world are taking measures to protect their people and the economy at the same time. Although some governments have made mistakes or acted too late, they are ultimately acting in the interests of their people. This cannot be said for The Iranian regime has now admitted that it is going to take advantage of a crisis that is tearing across the country.
The livelihood conditions of millions of Iran’s workers have taken a downward turn during the coronavirus epidemic making conditions even worse than before.
According to a report released today by the regime’s Parliament, 2 to 6 million Iranians, many of the workers, will become unemployed due to coronavirus conditions.
Reports indicate that unemployed workers in a factory in southwestern Iran have now resorted to picking waste to make ends meet during the coronavirus crisis that has killed at least 36,600 people.
A member of the Fasa Sugar Cube Factory Labor Council in Fars province said these workers were only living on their subsidies.
Hadi Mahmoud told the state-run ILNA News Agency today that at least 140 workers in the factory had months of unpaid wages.
According to recent figures announced by the regime, at least 100,000 of Iran’s workers have lost their jobs in the northern provinces of Mazandaran and Golestan and the western province of Lorestan in the last 10 days.
These figures must be taken with a grain of salt as the regime usually covers up its crises by giving out “engineered” figures.
With the inactivity of the construction industry, at least 80,000 construction workers have lost their jobs in Mazandaran alone.
Iran’s workers are barely able to make ends meet including paying for rent and their daily needs.
#Iranian father sheds tears as he curses Rouhani:
"What have you done to us?! I wish I'd die & be rid of this life. Damn you Rouhani! I have 4 daughters and when I can't provide, what good am I to them?"
Workers in the Sari Guni Gold Mine in NW #Iran gathered today in protest to the arrest of 2 members of their village council. The men were detained for protesting the lay off of local workers from the mine, which produces 3tons of Gold and 1ton of silver per year.
Bread is considered the most basic food in Iran and usually stands for food in general.
The Iranian regime is causing poverty for the deprived Iranian workers
Hadi Sadati, who is the head of the Mazandaran Construction Workers Union told the state-run ILNA News Agency yesterday that construction workers have been unemployed for two months and are living “in appalling poverty”.
According to the former Minister of Roads and Urban Development, the money that the government has promised as aid to businesses, “does not agree with the depth of the disaster”.
Abbas Akhondi said that thousands of small to medium workshops and businesses would be forced to shut down adding that they would not be able to get back on their feet for some time.
The state-run Arman daily wrote yesterday that Iranians had depleted their savings and were now forced to sell their belongings.
“Many people who are seen in the jewelry shops these days are not buyers, but sellers of gold,” the daily wrote.
Radio Farda, September 22, 2019: Behzad Nabavi, [a government minister in several administrations]: “Behzad Nabavi has said four financial institutions linked to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei controls 60 percent of Iran’s national wealth.
Nabavi in an interview with conservative website Alef in Tehran, published September 21 that 60 percent of Iran’s national assets are held by the Executive Headquarters for the Imam’s Decree (EHID), the Holy shrine of Imam Reza in Mashad (Astan-e Qods), and the Mostazafan Foundation which operates directly under Khamenei and his office, and the IRGC’s Khatam Al-Anbia Headquarters which is indirectly supervised by Khamenei as the commander-in-chief of the Iranian armed forces.
The situation of workers in Iran in 2019
These institutions operate outside the purview of the presidential administration and the Iranian Parliament (Majles), Nabavi told the website.
State-run ISNA news agency, August 27, 2019: Ali Rabie [government spokesperson]: “Every Tuesday I meet with all the state organizations that measure public opinion. The polls obtained by these centers show that 91 percent of the people believe there is corruption [within the regime].
State-run ISNA news agency, August 31, 2019: Sadegh Ziba-Kalam [one of the strategists close to the faction of the regime’s president, Hassan Rouhani]: “The Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance has a share of only 13% of the 6 billion tomans allocated in the cultural budget. Some 87% of this budget is for the institutions, organizations, and foundations that are completely independent from the government and do not answer to the parliament and the executive branch.”
July 15, 2019و Saied Namaki, the regime’s minister of health wrote on his Instagram: “Medical equipment worth 1.3 million dollars has vanished, and it is not even clear who took it and what they imported in return and gave to who.”
The state-run Khaneh-e Melat news agency, August 25, 2019:
Iran’s rating in comparison with the last year has decreased by two scores from 30 to 28. The corruption in Iran has increased in 2018, in comparison with the previous year. Iran’s position in 2017 was 130 out of 176 countries, and in 2018 it has lowered to 138 out of 180 countries in the world.
State-run Tehran News – July 19, 2017: Abbass Akhundi, Hassan Rouhani’s Minister of Urban Development, dubbed “billionaire minister”: “During the privatization of factories and production lines, 100 billion dollars was wasted on the government’s debts.”
State-run Jahan-e Sanat daily, December 7, 2019: “ A simple calculation shows that all the damages to the public fund, made by the rioters [during the Iran protests in November 2019], is not even comparable with only one embezzlement out of hundreds, made by those with the top managing and executive ranks within the last few years.”
BBC website – January 19, 2018: Assadollah Gharakhani, the spokesperson of the parliament’s Energy Commission: “One of the managers at Rouhani’s ministry of oil, who was suspected for having 100 billion dollars of embezzlement, ran away from Iran with his wife, 3 hours after he was summoned [by the court].”
Radio Farda – July 14, 2019: Political prisoner, Reza Golpour says he shared the cell in Ward 2 of Evin Prison with Rasool Danialzadeh, who told him that he [Danialzadeh] had given a 1,100-meter penthouse in Flora Tower to Akbar Tabari and a 700-meter apartment to Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi, the former prosecutor of Tehran.
Rasool Danialzadeh was charged with having 2600 billion toman debt to various banks. Yet, his name was mentioned in the case of Hossein Fereydoun, Hassan Rouhani’s brother. Danialzadeh had gifted a 16 billion toman apartment to Azar Ghafouri, Hossein Fereydoun’s wife.
The state-run Arman daily – December 19, 2019: Abdolnaser Hemmati, head of the Central Bank: We paid $22 billion currency, yet $11 billion of it has not yet returned. Where did the rest of this money go?
The state-run Mehr news agency – November 22, 2019: Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili, Senior Advisor to the Commander-in-Chief in Military Affairs: from 1979 to 1991 there was not even a single misuse of funds in the country. But since then, we have witnessed over 4 trillion dollars of financial abuse, which are unrelated to the sanctions.
Let's imagine that the Mahan Air flights to China did not take place and that the coronavirus did not enter Iran, and that workers and other poor people did not lose their family members to this imported disaster, or they had not borne the exorbitant costs of medicine and treatment (if there is any cure), or they had not become unemployed and poorer due to the failure of enterprises and production and service centers and they continue their life like before the corona in poverty.
But now they are informed by the regime’s president that because of the coronavirus their poverty will increase, and they must endure until a miracle takes place. While before the coronavirus era, Rouhani analyzed the people’s situation behind his tinted car windows and said, “The people are happy and smiley”, and now dismayed the people and said, “you see nothing yet”, the era after corona is so scary that your situation today is like a dream.
Iran’s workers bear brunt of coronavirus crisis as some resort to waste picking
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The danger of the collapse of the economy and the terrible post-Corona era is the worst economic recession of the century
But the confessions of the regime’s officials are just a glimpse of the disastrous economic situation in Iran.
The current world has entered an unprecedented period of stagnation with the arrival of the coronavirus, and the rich and the poor have all been exposed to this uninvited guest.
From now on, every country and the government will try to provide the best and most deserving for its nation, to stand at the top of the hill. But there are governments that neither want nor can participate in such a competition.
The Velayat-e-Faqih regime in Iran is a unique example of the fact that before the coronavirus was spread out, it put the Iranian nation in poverty, war, destruction, and devastation for forty years and left a black record.
today, Iran's case reflects the wrong policy of a regime that has harmed both the Iranian people and Iran's economy, industry, and nature for 41 years.
The coronavirus crisis has clarified the cruelty of the mullahs' approach to the Iranian people.
The Crown Virus Crisis "is not a reason to try and inject cash into the Iranian regime." Rather, the cause of all these catastrophes, the Iranian regime, must be eradicated from this deadly infectious and deadly virus of Iranian history.
What is needed now is respect for the right of the Iranian people to change, which alleviates the suffering of the Iranian people and paves the way for the diplomacy and vital freedom that all sections of the Iranian people need.
What the Iranian people need now is to recognize the right to overthrow a regime that has sacrificed the Iranian people to its inhumane and terrorist policies, which are more deadly than the virus.
Today, Iran's case reflects the wrong policy of a regime that has harmed both the Iranian people and Iran's economy, industry, and nature for 41 years.
The coronavirus crisis has clarified the cruelty of the mullahs' approach to the Iranian people.
The Crown Virus Crisis "is not a reason to try and inject cash into the Iranian regime." Rather, the cause of all these catastrophes, the Iranian regime, must be eradicated from this deadly infectious and deadly virus of Iranian history.
What is needed now is respect for the right of the Iranian people to change, which alleviates the suffering of the Iranian people and paves the way for the diplomacy and vital freedom that all sections of the Iranian people need.
What the Iranian people need now is to recognize the right to overthrow a regime that has sacrificed the Iranian people to its inhumane and terrorist policies, which are more deadly than the virus.
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