Monday, March 2, 2020

Top Adviser To Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei Has Died From The Coronavirus

Mohammad Mirmohammadi (pictured left), a member of the Expediency Council which is hand-picked by the Supreme Leader of Iran, died aged 71 after falling sick with coronavirus. In this picture he is seated alongside two other officials, including Ali Akbar Velayti (centre)

Daily Mail: Adviser to Ayatollah Khamenei becomes first senior Iranian official to die from coronavirus as opposition group claims death toll is TEN times higher than official figures

* Adviser Mohammad Mirmohammadi died aged 71 in a Tehran hospital today
* He was a member of the Expediency Council which is hand-picked by Khamenei
* Regime says 66 have died but opposition group NCRI claims death toll is 650

An adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has become the first senior Iranian official to be killed by coronavirus after he died at a Tehran hospital today.

Mohammad Mirmohammadi, a member of the Expediency Council which is hand-picked by the Supreme Leader, died aged 71 after falling sick with the virus.

He is one of several regime members to have caught the virus, after vice president Masoumeh Ebtekar - known in the West for her role as 'Screaming Mary' in the 1979 hostage crisis - and visibly struggling health minister Iraj Harirchi were also infected.

It comes as the Iranian regime was accused of 'endangering the lives of Iranians and the world' after alarming videos of worshippers licking a shrine emerged online.

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WNU Editor: The death toll has got to be more higher than this .... Tehran reports 66 dead from coronavirus as WHO team heads to Iran (Reuters).

Update: If this breakout continues to escalate, Iran is going to need all the help that it can get .... Iran Rejects Trump Offer of Help on Coronavirus as Ayatollah Aide Dies: 'We Don't Need Them' (Newsweek).

More News On A Top Adviser To Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei Dying From The Coronavirus

Adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei Dies of Coronavirus -- Time/AP
Adviser to Iran's Supreme leader dies from coronavirus, as other top officials infected -- FOX News
Adviser to Iran's supreme leader dies from coronavirus -- Middle East Eye
A member of the inner circle of Iran's Supreme Leader died of the coronavirus, as the country records more deaths than anywhere outside China -- Business Insider
Expediency Council member Mohammad Mirmohammadi dies -- Tehran Times

3 comments:

RussInSoCal said...

Iranian leadership are dead men walking. Their Deputy Health Minister traveled in the same state plane that Iran used to repatriate their citizens from China and he's fully sick with Covid19. There's video of him coughing and alarming a female newscaster that was interviewing him and another rvid of his sitting alongside the Chief Health Minister and the Deputy is sweating profusely and coughing. He's been in the same room with the Iranian leadership including the Ayatollah. They're almost certainly infected.

Total reported cases in Iran are 978 right now. Their first reported cases were ~10 days ago.

G said...

The devil knocking on doors fools

Bob Huntley said...

There are always upsides to negatives. In certain cases, death causing pneumonia has been referred to as the angel of mercy.