Health and Hygiene

nufdiran – Use Frozen Assets for Vaccines Mr. President, The people of Iran are facing an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe. While the world struggles with COVID-19, the Iranian people are struggling under a regime condemning them to death by banning the American-made vaccines which could save their lives. This is just the Islamic Republic’s latest crime against the people of Iran. …

CHRI —The unlawful arrests of six prominent lawyers and civil rights activists in Tehran as they were preparing to file a lawsuit against state officials for their gross mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic is an indication of the worsening human rights situation under the newly inaugurated President Ebrahim Raisi and new Judiciary Chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei. “Instead of addressing the skyrocketing numbers of COVID-19 infections …

Iranwire – Iran will be in lockdown for five consecutive days from Monday, August 16, to Saturday, August 21, the National Coronavirus Taskforce announced on August 14. In a letter to the Supreme Leader Khamenei, Health Minister Saeed Namaki had asked for a two-week lockdown. But his request failed to attract so much as one vote at the meeting of …

Iranwire – Outgoing Iranian health minister Saeed Namaki is understood to have missed a meeting of the National Coronavirus Headquarters on Friday that was being chaired by new president Ebrahim Raisi. The minister’s absence is believed to be linked to growing criticism of the Islamic Republic and the Ministry of Health’s policies on Covid-19 vaccine imports. Over the past 48 hours, …

nufdiran.org – Iran continues to be rocked by protests, the COVID crisis caused by Khamenei’s ban of the American and British vaccines, and the inauguration of the criminal Ebrahim Raisi as the Islamic Republic’s new president.The people of Iran are suffering under unimaginable pressure from the regime and its brutality. At NUFDI, we are doing everything we can to bring …

Iranwire – “We concealed the figures on fatalities from the World Health Organization,” said Dr. Alireza Zali, director of Tehran Coronavirus Taskforce on Wednesday, August 11. “When the WHO experts came to Iran, we constantly asked them to praise Iran’s health system to the media instead of consulting with them.” The senior physician made the disclosure on Wednesday, August 11 during a …

CHRI –Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei should immediately lift his ban on foreign COVID-19 vaccines, and U.S. President Joe Biden should include Iran in its global vaccination efforts, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said today. Khamenei’s ban on importing vaccines from major vaccine-producing countries including the U.S., UK, and France, as well as Iranian officials’ false promises of an effective domestic …

Al-Monitor – After Iran’s daily death toll from COVID-19 hit record highs for consecutive days, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has done an apparent about-face regarding the acquisition of vaccines. In a televised address, Khamenei said the coronavirus is the most important issue facing the country. He said daily deaths — numbering above 500 — and tens of thousands of infections …

Al-Monitor – The daily coronavirus death toll in Iran reached a new high on Aug. 9 at 588 deaths. The previous high was the day before, Aug. 8, with 542 deaths. According to the latest numbers by Health Ministry officials, there have been over 94,000 COVID-19 deaths in the country, though the actual number could be twice as high. The spread of the …

Iranwire – Vast quantities of Iran’s domestically-made Covid-19 vaccine were thrown away because of contamination, probably with live coronavirus, a source has told IranWire. CovIran-Barekat was developed last year by Setad, a massive parastatal holdings company under the control of the Iranian Supreme Leader. It received an emergency permit for use in Iran earlier this year despite a lack of published data around …