Iran is being hard hit with coronavirus. The epicenter is its holy city of Qom, a pilgrimage destination for the world’s Shia. Rather than take a scientific approach to contain the virus, the regime is focusing on Islam and its routine propaganda against “the enemy,” and is concentrating on protecting the image of its religious leaders:
The Islamic Republic’s approach to preventing the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Iran is a religious-security approach rather than a scientific-functional one….The Islamic Republic’s leader, President and senior clerics see themselves as the representatives of God and the imams who are saints and thus innocent. They are not willing to acknowledge that there are problems for which they do not have a solution, and thus should follow what experts say.
Already President Trump has been blamed…
“The enemy wants to instill fear in people’s hearts, make Qom look like an unsafe city and to take revenge for all its defeats,” said Hojjat ol-Eslam Seyyed Mohammad Saeedi, the Friday Prayer Imam and Custodian of the Shrine of Masoumeh. “Trump will die frustrated in his wish to see Qom defeated.”
“Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has condemned the spread of the virus as a conspiracy by the enemy to curb the turnout in last week’s Majles elections and President Hassan Rouhani characterized it as ‘the enemy’s political propaganda.'” In so doing, Iran foments the already burning hatred its loyalists feel toward what its leaders refer to as “The Great Satan” America, while deflecting responsibility.
Iran is now the central location for the spread of Coronavirus in the region. Many of the country’s officials have already been infected, including vice president Masoumeh Ebtekar, who was also the regime’s spokeswoman during the 1979 US embassy hostage-taking. She “was dubbed ‘Mary’ and ‘Screaming Mary’ during the 1979 US embassy hostage crisis for her nightly televised rants.”
Mojtaba Zolnour, a member of Parliament from Qom and head of Parliament’s national security and foreign policy committee; Mahmoud Sadeghi, an outspoken member of Parliament from Tehran; Iraj Harirchi, the deputy health minister who had been leading the effort to contain the coronavirus; Morteza Rahmanzadeh, the mayor of a Tehran district; Dr. Mohamad Reza Ghadir, head of coronavirus management in Qom and director of the city’s state medical university.
A prominent cleric, Hadi Khosroshahi, who served as Iran’s ambassador to the Vatican, has died from the virus.
“Will Islamic Republic Surrender to Coronavirus, Clerics Or Doctors?,” by Morad Veisi, Radio Farda, February 28, 2020:
The Islamic Republic’s approach to preventing the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Iran is a religious-security approach rather than a scientific-functional one.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has condemned the spread of the virus as a conspiracy by the enemy to curb the turnout in last week’s Majles elections and President Hassan Rouhani characterized it as “the enemy’s political propaganda.”
Senior clerics in Qom have prevented hygienic and health care measures in that city. While public health officials demanded the closure of busy pilgrimage sites in Qom and Mashhad, the clerics in charge of the shrines obstructed the attempts to control the virus. They have even resisted the decisions of the Provincial Security Council and disease control task force.
But why clerics in 19 out of the 31 Iranian provinces have prevented disease control although they are aware of the dangerous consequences of the epidemic and why they insist on their religious-security approach….
Now, Coronavirus has challenged the efficiency of the Islamic Republic. But a virus cannot be arrested, tried and forced to confess against itself, nor can the Islamic Republic condemn it for heresy. Clerics cannot eliminate Coronavirus in the same way they got rid of intellectuals and political activists. The clerics have nothing to defend themselves with against the virus and the people know that. Nonetheless, clerics are not going to surrender to doctors and experts….
The Islamic Republic’s leader, President and senior clerics see themselves as the representatives of God and the imams who are saints and thus innocent. They are not willing to acknowledge that there are problems for which they do not have a solution, and thus should follow what experts say. From the point of view of the leader, the President and senior clerics, such a practice would undermine the supremacy of the clergy in the country’s political system. It will also undermine the fundamentals of the economic regime that is based not only on donating to the clerics but also allowing them to control large chunks of the economy.
This is exactly why the leader and the president attribute Coronavirus to the enemies. At lower levels, clerics in charge of religious sites in Qom and Mashhad will not give in to the doctors’ call for suspending some religious rituals such as Friday Prayer gatherings. Theoretically, this is against what clerics have preached at the seminaries for hundreds of years.
Some religious scholars believe that in certain matters people should listen to experts, in this case doctors. But now that the Health Minister has officially declared on behalf of the disease-control task force that gatherings should be limited in pilgrimage sites for safety concerns, the clerics in Qom find it hard to accept the experts’ views and obstruct their measures. As far as they understand, shutting down these places closes the clerics’ business and sets a dangerous precedence for the future….
In order to conceal its inefficiency, the regime has forced the media to propagate its religious-security approach. But social media has put an end to the state-controlled TV’s monopoly on news. Twitter, Instagram, Telegram and other social media platforms have given everyone access to news that can expose misinformation….
Mary says
Could this be God’s way of getting rid of Islam?
Savvy Kafir says
It could be Darwinian natural selection in action — nature weeding out those too stupid to live.
Infidel says
Well, like I pointed out in Anjuli Pandavar’s piece yesterday, no infidel army would ever dream of or dare to stop Muslim pilgrimages. But this Covid-19 guy has done precisely that in Saudi Arabia, and even in Iran, the authorities have advised people not to go on pilgrimages to sites like Qum or Mashhed, since that would make the virus more widespread
Well, the virus has just struck Iran, but not countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia et al. They would need to be at the receiving end too for the world to get rid of islam
Ned Kelly says
Iran 28/2/20 over 600 sick, 60+ deaths.
Westman says
Could you cite a source? 60 deaths among 660 Iranians that have been ill would suggest over 10% fatality rate when the best estimates are around 2%. If there are actually 60 deaths it would represent about 3,000 infected Iranians.
Cia says
But the sanctions have been very effective at reducing Iranians’s quality of life, including nutritional status. Many are malnourished, leaving them unable to cope with the virus as well as most people in the world.
gravenimage says
It’slikely worse than that, I’m afraid:
“Coronavirus: Iran’s deaths at least 210, hospital sources say”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51673053
The “official” death toll as of Friday was 34, though.
Giacomo Latta says
No muslim should be complaining. Life is always as Allah wishes it to be.
Walter Sieruk says
How outrageously absurd , totally false and and completely slanderous of the ayatollahs and mullahs as well as other in power in that tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran to blame President Trump for coronavirus
For according to the Qu ‘ran which the Muslim clerics of Iran claim to believe in the real ,actual cause of the horrid is the god of Islam, Allah.
When getting down to basic Quran theology which is the Quran based worldview the one who is really to blame and is responsible for the coronavirus plague is the god of Islam ,Allah. For according to the Quran Allah had sent cruel disaster of coronavirus on human beings .
This means then the god of Islam, as if he really does is a destructive and malicious god. For the Quran teaches in Surah 57:22. “No misfortune [disaster] can happen on earth or in your souls but is recorded in a decree [Quran ] before [in eternity ] We [Allah] bring it into existence: that is easy for Allah.”
Therefore according the Islam’s “holy book,” the Quran the Islamic god, Allah, is guilty and thes ending and infecting people with coronavirus What a cruel vicious, malicious god Allah must be. So Allah is than a very unloving malice –filled god.
With this above information about the god of Islam is should be made clear that the God of the Bible is not really Allah the god of Islam. To explain, through the passing of time it has become widely accepted that the word “Allah” is just the Arabic word for God. This started when truth compromising Bible “translators” substituted the word Allah where the word God should have had been uses in the Arabic translation of the Bible. Furthermore, in the glossary in the book ASSASSINS! By Dr. Haha Lung it defines Allah as the “Pre-Islamic Lunar god : the god of Islam. “ Likewise, in the book entitled INSIDE ISLAM by a former Muslim who is now a Christian, Reza F. Safa on pages 22, 23 it reads “In pre-Islamic times both Allah –worship and Baal-worship involved the worship of the sun, the moon and the stars which h defines them as astral religions. [Which are condemned in the Bible, Second Kings 23:5] The crescent moon, which was the symbol of moon worship, is also the symbol of Islam.” In conclusion the Islamic god, Allah, is not the God of the Bible.
The words in brackets are my own. In addition other some other books that expose this little known truths are WHO IS THIS ALLAH ? by G..J.O.. Moshay also UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet Caner and Emir Fethi Caner and THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey . There is also PHILISTINE by Ramon Bennett and ANSWERING JIHAD by Mabeel Qureshi
rooare says
If the coronavirus is Trump’s fault as the Muslim leaders claim then Trump must be more powerful than their Allah. The USA offers help to Iran and the mullahs blame Trump, some cultures really are better than others.
Peter Buckley says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLnV1tmcgqw
Tum te tum. Can Islam survive? Er….nope.
The words “chicken”, “home” and “roost” spring to mind for some reason…….
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
,,, clerics in charge of religious sites in Qom and Mashhad will not give in to the doctors’ call for suspending some religious rituals such as Friday Prayer gatherings.
Question: if a Moslem man goes to mosque on Friday, contracts Covid19, and dies a wheezing death, is that considered the result of his participation in Jihad and he”ll gain admission to Jannat, with the throne, the 72 virgins, the boys like hidden pearls and those other divine goodies?
Infidel says
It depends on whether that particular instance of Covid-19 married one of their legendary djinns and then procreated more viruses. If that happened, he’s blessed, and will get to jannat w/ the throne, virgins, boys w/ pearls and the entire porno suite
Rick says
Now this is evolving into a most interesting experiment!
The survivors/and those with only minor effects from virus could provide “tested” source of anti-bodies for a vaccine against this virus.
Need to watch and see!!!
ElderlyZionist says
Yep. Evidently the Persians are culturally incapable of organizing an effective response to COVID-19. It will be interesting to see the effect as COVID-19 runs rampant in Iran.
gravenimage says
Israel is already working on a vaccine–unlike the Mohammedans.
Covid-19 says
Gravenimage, can you see any Islamic taking a vaccine developed by the Israelis with manufacture & distribution from the Americans …??
The problem is going to be Covid-19 is easier to conceal than suicide vests ..
This is going to get very tough, very soon …..
Infidel says
If those Iranian Muslims are infected, it’s the will of allah, and who are they or we or anybody to question allah’s desires? Only allah knows why he does anything, and his decisions are not to be questioned, blasphemer!
There’s also the possibility that the Covid-19 is the spirit of the Mahdi, or 12th imam. In which case, he’s off to a good start
Ed Lee says
Why should we care? Let them wallow in their myth, superstition, and self imposed ignorance. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving group.
Infidel says
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ron says
the longer the Iranians allow it to spread the greater the chance it spreads past their boarders
FYI says
“Above it are nineteen”
Koran 74:30
Aha!Yet another astonishing miraculous Scientific revelation in the koran.
Clearly allah is talking about the COVID-19 virus….
Infidel says
And the fact that the epicenter of the virus is Qum, of all places in Iran, is a sure sign that allah is trying to say something to his devotees
keith says
Disease doesn’t discriminate. However the fact that the arab, hard line Muslim extremists who run the country are now directly in the firing line, well that can only be seen as a good thing.
We have to remember that the Persian people are resisting the Arab run Muslim government, and so deserve our compassion.
We can only hope that the virus culls the terrorists running the government and allows the people to take back their home.
Westman says
One must also keep in mind that the average Iranian income would have been at least 5 times greater that it is now, “thanks” to the Islamic regime’s incompetency since 1979. The average monthly Iranian income is only about $280. Iran’s Allah does not know best.
Iranians also have a strong economic reason to exile the Mullahs who have created a worse economic record than the former USSR.
gravenimage says
Iran blames Trump for coronavirus, Islamic leaders refuse to suspend Friday prayer gatherings
……………….
What a bunch of morons.
Jaydam says
+1
Rob says
The last laugh will be when Israel finds a cure and the Iranians (led by the Ayahtollah) be them for access.
Rob says
That’s ‘beg’ of course
Infidel says
They won’t. Remember how they rejected Israeli offer of assistance after one of their earthquakes I think last year or the year before? It’ll be the same here – they’ll reject Israeli offers and let their population die, b’cos allah wills it!
gravenimage says
It always amazes me–you get something like a 5.5 magnitude earthquake in the Muslim world and often find hundreds or even thousands dead. That same quake in California or Japan means a few things fall off store shelves. That’s the difference decent building and safety standards makes.
James Lincoln says
Absolutely true, gravenimage.
For another example, look at Bernie’s Havana, Cuba.
The buildings are literally collapsing under communism.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/12/02/havana-cuba-collapsing-buildings-housing-unesco/1998606002/
gravenimage says
Yes–Communism is about as bad as Islam, James.
somehistory says
The keepers of the stone of idolatry in mecca are unable to convince visitors to stay away. Many have said that their fake ‘god’ will protect them and they have to make their visit of a lifetime to see and kiss it. Millions visit throughout the year and summer will see the hordes going on down, if the government can’t keep them out.
So, why don’t the ones in charge in iran tootle on over, march around and around, and do some kissing too?
There is also a news report that France has banned large gatherings and is discouraging kissing. What if they had said this before Feb. 14? It would have fit right in line with those moslims intent on killing any persons who were kissing a loved one.
andrew mckendrick says
Thought Muslims believed camels` urine was a cure all. What`s wrong have they run out of camels?
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
No, the camels are pissed. Word has it that they’ve been infiltrated by freedom-talking Westerners. The camels want a break.
gravenimage says
Remember the Saudi who got in trouble for substituting his own urine for camel piss? Can’t make this sh*t up:
“Saudis shut down camel urine shop: owner was selling his own urine”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/12/saudis-shut-down-camel-urine-shop-owner-was-selling-his-own-urine
Infidel says
What a scam-artist ?????????????????
No Muzzies Here says
The Iran government and the USA Democrat party are joined at the hip. Or more likely at the brain, because they share thoughts. Iran blames Trump, the Democrats blame Trump.
This is because the Democrats want desperately to give Iran whatever it wants, including the soul of this country, in exchange for their material support.
Trevor Bailey says
It seems the Iran government and the USA Demon-crats party are conjoined twins and ideologically not be separated.
OLD GUY says
President Donald Trump must be the strongest man on earth, he has to carry the weight of the world on his shoulders. It appears that everything going on in the world is his fault or needs to be fixed by him according to the Democrats and the liberal media.
Coronavirus, is it from God, manmade in China, or some other backyard lab, or did it come from just filthy life style of mankind? Who knows and we may never know. What governments around the world do along with their citizens will determine how many lives are lost to this virus. A country like Iran, who do nothing to protect their population may suffer greatly or they may luck out, only time will tell.
The reason we have governments is exactly for times like this. A central control and leader is needed to coordinate national and local leaders to provide information and services to protect the population. Without that leadership we have a disaster in the making.
gravenimage says
OLD GUY, the best guess so far is that it jumped the species barrier with people eating bats in Wuhan. Of course, there have been other outbreaks of similar diseases, including SARS and MERS, which are both types of coronaviruses themselves.
“The Animal Origins of Coronavirus and Flu”
Zoonotic diseases like influenza and many coronaviruses start out in animals, but their biological machinery often enables them to jump to humans.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-do-animal-viruses-like-coronavirus-jump-species-20200225/
Infidel says
Actually, a different theory I heard was that the virus was developed in a Wuhan biological level 4 lab, and experimented on animals like skunks, who were then let out into the open. In order to maximize any profits from that, those dying animals were sold to the wet market and then sold to people, and the diseases that they developed from the experiments were then transmitted to humans
Not only does it explain why this virus is only emerging now, when Wuhan presumably has had that wet market around for a while, it also explains why Beijing has been reluctant to let the CDC into the country. Exposing a germ warfare lab as being behind all this would deal a mortal blow to Beijing’s image not just among ordinary people abroad who disdain China anyway, but also to their corporate fans in Davos who love the slave labor that props up their market caps and PE ratios
Hopefully, the result of this would be corporate America, corporate Europe and corporate everyone else pulling all operations out of China, and bringing it back to their respective homes. They’ve gone way beyond the point where the value of all that slave labor is worth it: not much that they can sell if they’re all dead
underbed cat says
I think that Trump should stop all flights to the U.S…for maybe 2-3 months. This virus that seems to be missing antigens.. spreading as if there is no immunity..sounds dangerous to me. Maybe only cargo flights or returning stranded Americans. Then build a enormous hospital like China in the most remote area and take all patients there for care, and isolations areas. I also would search for top scientists….My first thought after hearing this started in China, was that it was a Islamic response, a revenge release of a virus that would cause destruction to China. The protests by the muslims for the attempt of China to re-educate Chinese muslims in large numbers, they called concentration camps, but they they were housed, with the goal to remove the ideology from the population that causes a departure from the Chinese culture. The( Weigers) muslims not correct spelling have converted a hugh number of muslims, that has grown s large that China with foresight knew this is not compatible, could build violence and revolution and is not good for China. I often wonder could this have been be a deliberate release by a muslim lab worker if such a virus was in their labs, many muslim chemists, biologist etc. It is a curious situation at a time of muslim protesting this reeducation. It may not be but that occured to me. The Imams and the 1 cent dems will only blame Trump…..nothing new. Unfortunately this is spreading in Europe and we have Canada to the north with open border Tru do…and South America, Mexico to the south and the mass migration plans were very stealth. The great diversity plan to takeover , educated in America with oil money profits of M.E. prohibited by the leftist marxists for years to become self sufficient here we are….today….stumped by a book that few see as dangerous or would take the time to read.
Darrell Lynch says
Personally, I am quite pleased at this. It’ll be great to see how their seventh century childish garbage does with it.
unbeliever1 says
One fact of this virus is that Muslims are not Allah’s favorites and have no special protection or maybe he is just a figment of the imagination.