Iranian sanitary workers disinfect Qom's Masumeh shrine to prevent the spread of the coronavirus
National Interest: Iran's Coronavirus Disaster Will Spread
And that means Iraq will likely suffer the most.
In a scene reminiscent of a dark satire but unfortunately, no joke, Iraj Harirchi, Iran’s deputy minister of health, appeared at a televised news conference to assure the Iranian public that the Iranian government had the coronavirus outbreak under control. He was sweating profusely and obviously unwell. Later, the Iranian government acknowledged he had caught the coronavirus and entered quarantine.
Iran already has the highest death toll outside of China, and that is just with the numbers the Iranian government acknowledges. There is no reason for the widespread outbreak in Iran other than regime incompetence and venality. As with the Chinese government, the Iranian regime’s first approach was to deny and cover-up. It is the knee-jerk reaction for the Iranian regime and was also on full display in Tehran’s initial reaction to its downing of a Ukrainian jetliner. There is an irony, here, in that in the wake of the 1978 Tabas earthquake, it was the incompetence of the shah’s regime juxtaposed with the efficiency of clerical charities that catalyzed the Islamic revolution.
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WNU Editor: Unlike China, Iran does not have the means to quarantine cities and/or regions. And what measures they are implementing are too little and too late .... Virus-hit Iran slaps curbs on travel, shrine visits (AFP). But the above analysis that Iraq will suffer as much as Iran will is accurate, and the geopolitical impact that this disaster will have on the Middle East will be huge.
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Got to love Islam and their "pleasure marriages" and "3 second divorces".
I bet contact tracing that is usually used in limiting disease, is impossible in such a dishonest society.
JUST LIKE Hollywood and the rest of liberal society.
This is a boon to Sunnis and ISIs and a bane to the Shia.
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