State Welfare Organization’s ability to aid them is limited.

120 million doses paid for at a reported cost of nearly $6 billion, less than 4 million doses produced.

Millions of Sputnik doses produced by Tehran’s Actoverco will not go to COVID-ravaged Iran.

Former parliament speaker says negotiations for COVID-19 vaccines took place over a year ago.

Real numbers said to be as much as seven times higher than “engineered” figures in parts of country.

Tehran cemetery laborers working triple shifts to bury coronavirus dead.

Rate of breakthrough fatalities dozens of times higher than in the West—inferior vaccines, treatment practices eyed.

Bar association VP urges authorities’ failure to provide vaccines be treated as capital offense.

Mashhad cabbies asked to transport corpses; hospital staffers in Khuzestan reportedly dropping “like autumn leaves.”

Vials of remdesivir are selling for as much as $250—almost two weeks’ salary for a typical Iranian.

Bahram Einollahi among signatories of January letter calling for rejection of US and British COVID vaccines.

Filmmakers charge supreme leader with “mass murder” for blocking Western vaccines.

Twitter hashtag use climbs as deaths reportedly reach 30 an hour.

Official tally is less than half that. Even the lower figure is a death rate over 3 times per capita of the US toll.

Provincial hospitals have been dismissing patients after three days, regardless of condition, to demonstrate that they have empty beds.

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has prohibited the import of any Western-made vaccines.

Official statistics show that 60 percent of recent COVID-19 tests have come back positive.

Among Iranian vaccines, only the Barakat vaccine has received emergency production approval.

All government offices, judiciary facilities, and banks in the province will be closed as of July 3.