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According to People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran(PMOI/MEK), April 12, Over 26200 people have died of the Coronavirus in 266 cities across Iran’s 31 provinces. The official death count declared by the regime is 4,357, less than a fifth of the real figure.
The death toll in various provinces include: 3,200 in Tehran, 2,480 in Qom, 2,270 in Khorasan Razavi, 2,150 in Gilan, 1,910 in Isfahan, 1,050 in Khuzestan, 970 in Alborz, 695 in Kermanshah, 650 in Hamedan, 610 in East Azerbaijan, 590 in Lorestan, 515 in Fars, 405 in Kurdistan, 380 in Kerman, 375 in Qavin, 345 in Markazi (Central), 255 in Sistan & Baluchistan, 250 in North Khorasan, 204 in Chaharmahal & Bakhtiari, and 55 in Hormozgan. This is in addition to cases registered in other provinces.
Head of the Qom Medical Science University said 300 patients are hospitalized for severe respiratory difficulties, 19 of whom are children, all suspicious of being infected with COVID-19, according to a report wired on Friday, April 10, by the regime’s official IRNA news agency.
Hossein Ali Shahriari, a member of the regime’s Majlis (parliament) from the city of Zahedan, southeast Iran, criticized the regime on Friday for lifting quarantine measures. “We will experience an even higher peak if we lift quarantine measures too early… In Sistan & Baluchistan positive COVID-19 tests will increase and we have witnessed this trend even in the past few days. We are concerned about an even higher peak in our province. The number of medical professionals losing their lives in the fight against Coronavirus is more than during the 1980-88 Iran Iraq war,” he said in an interview with state TV channel five on Friday, April 10.
Despite the escalating death toll, Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and its President Hassan Rouhani have ordered the majority of the country’s workforce back to their jobs on Saturday.

As the Coronavirus epidemic spreads across Iran, senior regime officials are voicing grave concerns about the consequences of the regime's policies in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Ebrahim Raisi, head of the regime’s judiciary, warned his apparatus to “follow up and prevent disruptions.” This sheds further light on the Iranian regime’s main concern not being to overcome the COVID-19 and saving people’s lives, but to prevent any possible threat to their rule.
“One of the main issues on the agenda of the Supreme Council on Preventing Crimes is focusing on the post-Coronavirus stage and evaluating the various possibilities. We also have post-coronavirus social, economic and cultural issues. As long as there is social unrest, all of our apparatuses have a responsibility to prevent these events into becoming crimes. When this transition takes place, naturally the judiciary steps in to follow up. This really needs to take place as preventive measures and the post-Coronavirus subject is a very important matter. All aspects need to be evaluated and placed on our agenda, discussed as soon as possible and hopefully, we will not be passive in this regard. We need to be able to actively address our post-coronavirus issues,” Raisi said.

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A female psychologist Dr. Fatemeh Asma Esmailzadeh was arrested for not being able to post a bail of 500 million Tomans. Dr. Esmailzadeh had received a court summons for December 22, 2019, and was transferred to Birjand Prison.
She had been interrogated and threatened repeatedly by the South Khorasan Intelligence Department prior to being arrested. In one instance, four intelligence agents intimidated her by trying to kidnap her.
Dr. Fatemeh Asma Esmailzadeh is a psychologist and was an official employee of Birjand University. She was fired on charges of “propaganda against the state” and “insulting the supreme leader.” Her husband, Amir Mehdi Jalayeri, is a political prisoner.
Dr. Esmailzadeh had been taking care of her four children, who range in age from 7 to 16, as well as her elderly parents.
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Political Prisoner Samaneh Norouz Moradi was returned to the women’s ward of Evin Prison after her leave expired. Meanwhile, reports indicate that several guards at the women’s ward of Evin had been infected with the Coronavirus.

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The Iranian regime on Saturday executed Mostafa Salimi, a prisoner who had taken part in the riots of Saqqez prison in late March 2020. The execution, took place as the regime has faced growing unrest and riots in several prisons across the country. It is the latest manifestation of the regime’s waning control on prisons and its fears of further riots by inmates who are infuriated by authorities’ lack of measures to protect them against the fast-spreading coronavirus. In the wake of the riots in Sheiban and Sepidar prisons in Ahvaz, where security guards killed 36 inmates, authorities have cut off the water supply to Ahvaz’s Sepidar Prison, to increase the pressure on prisoners.

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NCRI women committee April 11, 2020: More Iranian nurses have died due to the Coronavirus on April 6 and April 7, of 2020. Aria Sigaroudi, a family health expert, was working at the Sari Health Center. Employed at the Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Aria Sigaroudi was hospitalized on March 30, 2020. She succumbed to the deadly virus on April 7. Another Iranian nurse, Kimia Mohammadi, also died of the Coronavirus, in Baharlu Hospital in Tehran on Tuesday, April 7.
Names of additional medical staff and nurses who died have been recently released:
Marzieh Hosseini Nejad, Medical Sciences University of Babol
Ashraf Malmali, hospital staff in Tehran
Saadat Shakibaei, nurse in Yasuj
Roghayeh Ronaghi, healthcare worker in Someh Sara
The Mullahs’ regime is directly responsible for the deaths of Iranian nurses and medical staff.