Coronavirus crisis in the service of the Tehran regime or against it.

The utterly contradictory statements of the leaders of the Iranian regime regarding the crisis of the Coronavirus virus are confusing and confusing for any observer.

they complain that US sanctions have increased the number of deaths due to the disease. They have been able to contain the outbreak of the coronavirus! 

If they have been able to contain the coronavirus crisis, then why are they complaining about US sanctions?   

         

  

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has repeatedly stated that US sanctions are not subject to medical assistance, and even went one step further, saying the United States is ready to help Iran in this crisis if Tehran asks for help.

In a press release on March 22, the U.S. State Department said: “The United States has and continues to offer humanitarian assistance to the Iranian people to help address the coronavirus outbreak. It is unfortunate for the Iranian people that their government has rejected this offer. Our priority has been to stand with the Iranian people – and this offer is still on the table. U.S. sanctions are not preventing aid from getting to Iran. The United States maintains broad authorizations that allow for the sale of food, agricultural commodities, medicine, and medical devices by U.S persons or from the United States to Iran.”

But Khamenei's response to this assistance was very strange. He claimed that the Corona virus had been propagated by US laboratories, which was denied by government officials, and said that the Corona virus in Iran was the same virus that had entered China from China and that we did not have two models of the virus. )IRNA state news agency quotes Kianoosh Jahanpour, Public Relations Manager of the Ministry of Health – BBC(

They also expelled relief teams from Doctors Without Borders-  )MSF) in Isfahan and did not allow a field hospital to be set up at the expense of this human rights organization. Why ?

“We are surprised to learn that the deployment of our treatment unity is cancelled”, Michel-Olivier Lacharite, who is in charge of Medecins Sans Frontieres crisis response team, said in a statement (Reuters).

Why is Tehran blocking international aid and why are foreign specialist teams not allowed to treat patients with coronavirus?

MSF “deeply surprised” that Iranian authorities put a stop to our COVID-19 response.

On March 22, the regime’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, while blatantly accusing the United States of instigating the coronavirus pandemic in Iran refused any aid from the U.S. and said: “Firstly, you (The United States) are facing shortages of your own … If you have anything, use it yourself. Secondly, you have allegedly produced the virus. One must be insane to trust that you will bring medicine. Your drugs may even spread the disease further or stabilize the virus. Or, if you send a physician, you may want to closely test the toxic effects of the virus you have created. Because it’s said that given the knowledge about Iranian genes, part of the virus has been specially created for Iran.” Quoted from NCRI.

The National Council of Resistance of Iran(NCRI), which has been calling for the overthrow of the religious dictatorship of the mullahs for the past 41 years, addressed this issue in a statement and gave a clear answer to the analysis of this strange act by the regime's leaders.

“The real threat for the regime is not the COVID-19. In this regard, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), said: “Khamenei’s drivel about the production of the virus by the U.S is a desperate attempt to cover up the regime’s incompetence in confronting the disease and the mullahs’ criminal role in the explosive spread of the virus nationwide and to divert the people’s anger, and disgust towards the U.S. But these justifications no longer work and only exacerbate the people’s rage.” 

The fact is that the regime is pursuing a dual policy. Given the anti-popular nature of this government, they have never paid attention to the problems of the people. Over the past 41 years, they have always acted against the interests of the Iranian people. Even now, in the face of the crisis, the Coronavirus is pursuing the same strategy, which is to maintain this government in any way.

Khamenei officially viewed the coronavirus crisis as a blessing. On the one hand, it intends to lift the sanctions by taking the health of the Iranian people hostage under the pretext of fighting against the coronavirus. On the other hand, by normalizing the situation and declaring that the government has controlled the crisis, it will motivate its forces and prevent another popular uprising.

But can the deaths of more than 34,700 patients with coronavirus be ignored? The inhumane policies of this regime, including concealing the widespread spread of this virus from the people and not quarantining the cities and ordering the reopening of all departments, etc., cause the people's volcanic anger.

The fact is the regime is destabilized. The chain of events, from the nationwide Iran protests in November, the protests in Iraq and Lebanon against its meddling in their domestic affairs, the elimination of the IRGC Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, the IRGC’s downing of the Ukrainian airliner, the failure of its sham parliamentary election because of the people’s general boycott, and the regime’s unprecedented international isolation have shaken the regime’s foundation. Therefore, the coronavirus outbreak is indeed a security and existential threat to the mullahs’ regime, and it would never try to help people and would indeed continue its cover-up and inaction to paralyze a nation and prolong its rule. But an uprising is inevitable.