Covid-19 out of control in Iran, but Iran Air announces the resumption of flights to Europe (and Italy)
On 23 October, Dr. Hossein Jahani, head of the public relations office of Iran Air , declared that the Iranian national airline has returned to travel to 7 European countries, after the blockades resulting from the pandemic. According to Jahani, among the reopened European routes there is also the one towards Italy, in particular towards Rome.
We do not know whether what Jahani said is already a reality, an announcement of the upcoming reopening of the routes, or simple regime propaganda. But the words of the Iranian representative should be answered, confirmed or denied, by the European authorities, primarily Italian. Since, as everyone knows by now, the situation of the spread of the coronavirus in the Islamic Republic of Iran is now totally out of control. A fact confirmed by the Iranian authorities themselves.
Just a few days ago, just to remember the latest events, Hossein Gheshlaghi, a member of the Supreme Iranian Medical Council, said that the number of victims of Covid-19 in Iran is at least three or four times higher than the official numbers provided by the Ministry of health. For Gheshlaghi, quoted by the Mehr News news agency , to get the real statistics it is enough to interface with the medical staff in national hospitals.
What is happening in Iran is that, when a person is declared dead of Covid-19 , the Ministry of Health does not always add the victim to the official death list. According to the Ministry of Health, the official victims to date would be 32,320 (data updated to 24 October). In reality, however, the victims would be at least 129,000. On the other hand, some time ago, it was the same deputy minister of health, Iraj Harirchi, who declared that the number of deaths from Covid-19 in Iran was at least 2.2 times higher than official data. At the moment, in the Islamic Republic, there are at least 43 cities considered to be in a critical situation, which will be forced into very strong restrictive measures.
So, the question is: how is it possible to think of reopening flights between Iran and Italy in a similar situation? Beyond the fact that Iran Air is included in the list of entities subject to US sanctions for the same reasons as Mahan Air – also banned in Italy because it serves the Pasdaran – how is it conceivable to allow people to arrive from Iran at this time? ? It would be a clear endangerment of public health, in an already extremely difficult moment for Italy. We hope that the words of the representative of Iran Air will therefore be flatly denied by the heads of ENAC and the Ministry of Transport.
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