Iran rejects international humanitarian aid despite coronavirus death toll

As Iran battles one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the world, its regime has rejected life-saving humanitarian aid from abroad.

On Sunday, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the leading international medical humanitarian organization, announced that it had sent a 50-bed inflatable hospital and an emergency team of nine people to Isfahan, the second-worst affected province in Iran, “to increase hospital capacity for treating patients critically ill from coronavirus disease, also known as COVID-19.”

Furthermore, on Monday, the Iranian Embassy in France boldly tweeted that a “second shipment of MSF aid has left Bordeaux for Tehran today.”

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Yet on Tuesday, the Tehran leadership rejected the help while repeating a whirlwind of conspiracies that the France-based NGO was part of a broader spy network and scheming to expel aid from the crippled country.

For now, the charity is stating only that the aid is “on hold” and that they are awaiting “next steps.”

Alireza Vahabzadeh, a Health Ministry adviser in Iran, has instead doubled-down on the notion that the Islamic Republic currently has many field hospitals that they’ve built that haven’t yet been used.

“We have empty beds and spare capacity,” he told Bloomberg. “So, at this stage, we don’t need this help.”

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