In the first part of this series, we reviewed the Iranian regime’s record in 2019 and discussed the devastating flood, the end of the six-month oil sanctions exemption to eight counties by the US and the intensification of sanctions, as well as the rise in gasoline prices and the November uprising.
As of March 20, the coronavirus death toll in Iran was 6,400, according to Struan Stevenson, a former president of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Iraq.
The beginning of 2019 in Iran, with its devastating flood, showed that the mullahs' regime had no serious preparedness to prevent natural disasters and had left the Iranian people without safe. Hundreds were killed in the disaster, and thousands of homes were destroyed.
The Coronavirus health crisis in Iran is still running rampant across the country. Thousands of people have already died and more are to be expected. Information about the situation is hard to come by because the Iranian regime is covering up the reality of the crisis and officials continue to contradict each other.
The Iranian regime’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei described breathtaking sanctions and the country’s dire economic conditions as an opportunity for his rule.
The outlook for Iran’s regime in 2020 is so bleak that virtually every regime official in any position speaks of nothing other than the deadlock that the regime is facing.
